This publication documents the project Gone with the Wind, an essay on artistic intervention in a rural context, and presents the journey of the collective since their inception. True to the spirit of Pique-Nique's projects, Autant en emporte le vent is an event that reaches out to the public by taking over an unusual location: a field on the edge of the Route Rapide Sud in Saint-Casimir, a small town located an hour from Quebec City on the banks of the Sainte-Anne River. Fourteen artists transform the everyday experience of this rural landscape with works, some of which are visible from the road, at a glance. The outdoor exhibition, whose presence is ephemeral, is complemented by a second component at the Moulin de la Chevrotière in Deschambault-Grondines, where works are installed that echo the rural interventions. Ranging from performance to video, installation, sculpture and drawing, these projects all playfully address the physical, sociological or historical particularities of the context in which they are set. With their stagings revolving around typical characters, their installations exploiting the possibilities offered by the site, their projects touching on memory and heritage or opposing the poles of nature and culture, rurality and urbanity or interior and exterior, the artists of Pique-Nique and their three guests seek to surprise you - to blow you away! - by renewing the experience that is usually made of this environment, at the source of the project.
Artists
Jason Arsenault, Patrick Bérubé, Jacynthe Carrier, Guillaume La Brie, Mathieu Lacroix, Véronique Lépine, Thierry Marceau, Karine Payette, Marie-Hélène Plante, Édouard Pretty, Max-Antoine Proulx/Janick Rousseau, Mathieu Valade, Giorgia Volpe
