Geronimo Inutiq (aka DJ Madeskimo)
Photo: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, avec la permission de/ courtesy of Guy L’Heureux
Ensemble / Encore, 2017
Together / Again, 2017
Katimakainnarivugut, 2017
Videos:
ensemblevideo1, 10 min
ensemblevideo2, 23 min, 47 s
ensemblevideotv, 3 min
Soundtrack:
encore, 16 min
Digital prints on aluminum: wolfalert, caribougradient
Digital image prints on photoboard: lichen on rock, arctic ground shrub, underwater bike and antlers, lichen on rock2
Inspired by the word Katimavik, meaning “meeting place” in Inuktitut, which was the name of the inverted pyramid structure that was part of the Canada Pavilion, Inutiq’s installation is an abstract audiovisual interpretation of the forms, images, symbols and languages that were present in the original pavilion. Inutiq draws on archival sources to create a decidedly contemporary multimedia space using numerous elements: films sourced from the Prelinger Archives of Expo 1967, a language-based work juxtaposing English, French and Inuktitut, digital prints and an audio composition inspired by Canadian electroacoustic composer Otto Joachim’s four-track sound installation, Katimavik, commissioned for the original pavilion. The use of digital technologies to create optical and sonic effects¾crystallization and fragmentation of moving images, serially generated waveforms and magnetic tape recordings, manipulation of printed images¾allows him to inscribe a critical perspective on 1967 as “a pinnacle of the possibilities of futurism and the potentiality of the nation state as an agent of newfangled corporate and technological breakthroughs.” (G. Inutiq).
Acknowledgments: Conseil des arts de Montréal
About the Artist
Geronimo Inutiq is of Aboriginal and Québécois ancestry, and an accomplished artist in electronic music composition, multi-media, and video installations. His work reflects on popular and underground electronic music currents and weaves multiple cultural threads and gives space for organic imagery as well as exploring more synthetic sources. He explores digital video and images, treating archival film in the context of museum and art gallery exhibits, alongside his work in electronic music performance, composition, and DJing. His work has been featured in the exhibition Beat Nation, Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, 2012; Canada tour, 2012 – 2014); and performed in the Musée de la civilisation de Québec (2016); Transmediale and Club Transmediale, Berlin; and the imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, Toronto.