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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at EXTRA_MUROS: Using urban Montreal as a canvas

MUTEK Festival, Montreal, 2009

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2-22, rue Sainte-Catherine Est (coin . corner : Saint-Laurent)

MAKE OUT, by Montreal’s RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER, uses literally thousands of videos pulled from the Internet featuring couples gazing at each other. When a spectator passes in front of the installation, the couples begin their embrace. The kissing continues until the spectator leaves, and only then does the mass embrace end and the couples revert to awaiting their next unwitting witness. Nothing is more natural than setting MAKE OUT in the heart of the Red Light district!

MUTEK is very proud to finally present to Montreal the work of this master of monumental  interactivity, who has been very much in demand on the media-arts international scene for many years and too often absent from the city where he has chosen to keep his creative studio.

This project will be launched on site on Wednesday May 27, at 9 PM.