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C\u00e9leste Boursier-Mougenot plays the living like an instrument. Whether with trees or with birds, he creates subtle installations that encompass the social behaviours of species and maximize the effects of the presence of living beings. For the 56th<\/sup> Venice Biennale, three Scotch pines were installed on motorized platforms propelled by the stimuli emitted by the trees as a function of the ambient environment (light, heat, humidity) and translated into electric waves (transHuMus<\/em>, 2015). The trees moved slowly and also produced sounds that could be heard in the pavilion: the sound of nature converted into electronic sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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C\u00e9leste Boursier-Mougenot<\/strong>
from here to ear v. 19<\/em>, installation view, Mus\u00e9e des beaux-arts de Montr\u00e9al, 2015\u200a\u2013\u200a2016.
Photo : Mus\u00e9e des beaux-arts de Montr\u00e9al, Justine F\u00e9vrier, courtesy of Mus\u00e9e des beaux-arts de Montr\u00e9al<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Whether plants have intelligence is a debate that has raged among scientists: can they have such a capacity when they don\u2019t have neurons? We know already that plants \u201ccommunicate\u201d with each other, modify their chemistry when threatened by certain species, and draw rain, but are these motorized trees capable of thought? And how do birds acclimatize to the environment of an installation (from here to ear<\/em>, 2008\u200a\u2013\u200a2015, presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)? For this work, Boursier-Mougenot selected not a wild species but domestic specimens. These delicate zebra finches, originally from Australia, move with volubility and velocity through the space, pecking at the ten electric guitars and four basses attached to amplifiers; they seem quite oblivious to the feedback and riffs that they produce, as well as to the appreciative visitors. Indifferent to the sometimes thunderous sounds, the birds frenetically generate a score that celebrates the random. The social organization of their colony and the soft chirping exchanges are contrasted against the haphazard, confused throbbing of the guitars, all of which is observed by visitors who seem captivated by this naturalistic concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated from the French by K\u00e4the Roth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"87_PF01_Ramade_Boursier_From
C\u00e9leste Boursier-Mougenot<\/strong>
from here to ear<\/em> (version hors s\u00e9rie), installation view, d\u00e9p\u00f4t du CNAP au Frac Franche-Comt\u00e9, Besan\u00e7on, 2014.
Photo : \u00a9 Blaise Adilon, \u00a9 C\u00e9leste Boursier-Mougenot, courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
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