Incessamment is a sound and video installation about time and space representation.

Far from the globalized, standardized cities as shown by web cams or 24 hour info-TV channels, I propose a singular, personal, peculiar vision of urban landscape with surround sound and fast motion, where the movement of cars, people, cranes and boats generates visual rhythms and melodies.

For Incessamment, I collected (and i’m continuing to collect) images and sound samples captured in various cities. I’m not looking for exotic or famous spots. On the contrary, i’m looking for daily, slightly odd situations in towns i know in Europe and Northern America. For example : staccato comings and goings in front of the Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal, smoke arabesques of a factory in Brooklyn, a hyperactive krane in Montmartre, a storm on a business center, swimmers shouting and playing in the tides of a resort...

These samples form the raw database that I use for the installation.

The installation consists of two face-to-face (or side by side) audio and video flows. The spectator is positioned between two landscapes (or facing them) and immersed in the middle of the sound environment. The simultaneous diffusion of the sounds and the images induces a navigation through a specific space-time, creating links and resonances between sites and times, from one city and sound texture to another, day to night, summer to winter...

This project received support "aide à la Maquette" from DICREAM (French Ministry of Culture) in 2004.

Previous presentations :

 Dec 2004, Planétarium in Poitiers Espace Mendes France "Incessamment" was shown as a performance. Real time multichannel panning software application using Wacom tablet as interface written in Max/MSP by Fabienne Serrière
 Fev 2005 ARHITEKTUURI- ja DISAINIGALERII Pärnu mnt. 6, Tallinn Estonia CCF Aug 2005 Alliance Francaise Arequipa Peru
 Aug -Sept 2005 Galería ARTCO Lima Peru VAE festival
 30.09 - 01.10 Strasbourg Ososphere Festival Projections through the windows of a train.
 Nov 2005 Buyself Gallery Festival RIAM Marseille
 13 December 2007 Festival internumérique Submarine base of Lorient, France

Following the same idea, Cécle Babiole shot 10 movies in Montréal for La Noirceur a play by Marie Brassard, premiered at festival de théatre des Amériques 2003.