Prendre le nord is the project of Anne-Marie Ouellet and Thomas Sinou. In the winter of 2014, they lived for several days in a cabin on the frozen Lac Saint-Jean. He records the sounds. She writes. This book and a sound installation entitled Le son de l'ère est froid (The sound of the era is cold) were born from this immersion."It happened in Lac-Saint-Jean, in 1961. At the time, we were bringing back pockets of loaches. We fed them to the pigs. Today, the lake is almost empty. In June of that year 68, the wreckage of a fishing hut with a woman's body inside was found on the beach. Washed up by the lake; planks and a body. They acted as if this story was a great mystery. My father says that everyone in the village knew that this woman was the mistress of the great Pierre, that he was the only one with a blue shack. As he was married to another woman, his neighbours had kept quiet to avoid making the scandal public.
Prendre le nord
Collectif L'eau du bain
Anne-Marie Ouellet was born in Alma, Lac-Saint-Jean. She is now a professor of theatre at the University of Ottawa. Her research-creation interests include sound, performative acting and contemporary theatre writing.
Thomas Sinou was born in Marseille. In 2006, he immigrated to Montreal where he works as a sound designer and sound supervisor. This ingenious sound designer creates interaction devices between sound, space, actors-performers and spectators.
Anne-Marie and Thomas form the collective L'eau du bain which creates theatrical, sound and installation works.
