© Eric LĂ©tourneau, Quatre re-traitĂ©s* tirĂ© de ââilsâ âviennentâ : KhĂ©dive et Mamelouk, en un seul, sur son patron (work-in progress), 2013. Photo Jordan Tannahill.
Canada
Eric LĂ©tourneau has been active since the 1980s as an intermedia artist and a sono-temporal architect. He pursues an artistic practice based on the creation of situations within the social fabric. He has produced roughly 50 contextual works and has presented his work in more than 10 countries. He is particularly interested in the instrumentalization of collective memory by institutions.
From 1999 to 2001 he worked for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), producing concerts, recordings and radio programs about new music, sound poetry, audio art and radio art. Eric Létourneau is a frequent contributor to publications and catalogues about performance art, and has written for Inter, Parallelogramme and esse. He currently teaches art history at CollÚge André-Grasset and works as an independent curator.
