Visual, sound and light installation with a memory related theme.

Winner :  Grands Prix du Design, catégorie multidisciplinarité
Winner :  Cecobois – Laps (Reconnaissance de l'engagement municipal à l’Arrondissement de Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie pour son utilisation de bois de frênes récupéré)

Created from ancient personal photographs and interviews with elders, Laps is a complex device whose intention is to evoke the process of remembrance and the buried memories that can sometimes resurface. With the participation of senior residents, it is a unique story of the neighborhood that is told and preserved.

The main inspiration for the shaping of the work lies somewhere between the functioning of the brain (flows between synapses) and that of a computer server.

Linear luminous movements circulate periodically on the edges of the structure, connecting the thematic sections of the work, which are illuminated in turn, and trigger sound recordings.

Thanks to its modular, demountable and reconfigurable structure, Laps travelled during the summer and fall of 2017 in the parks and public spaces of the Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie borough, adopting different forms depending on the context.

The architects, in collaboration with an artist whose work, at the crossroads of semiology and visual ethnography, draws on archives and narratives, have created a photographic, luminous and sonorous work based on the bank of documents collected with a resident of the neighbourhood, who is a member of the local history society, as part of the project.

The weekly relocation of a structure integrating complex lighting and sound programming technology was the main challenge of this project. The work had to be dismountable and easy to transport, safe, weatherproof and resistant to vandalism. All junctions between the modules are made of bolted steel plates which conceal three connections (electricity, data and sound) conceived to be easily handled by the moving team.

A mediation presented the work to visitors and participatory discussions took place four times a week at each of the fourteen site where the work traveled.