PUISQU’À TOUTE FIN CORRESPOND – ENTRETIENS

Puisqu'à toute fin correspond -- Entretiens broaches Raymond Gervais's entire artistic practice, which began in the mid seventies and comprises performances, installations, and texts.

Do we think acoustically? Do we see acoustically? These questions are central to Raymond Gervais's art and Nicole Gingras gives them careful consideration in the series of interviews that make up this publication. Here, the artist comments on his production, on forthcoming projects, on his readings, and on his passion for the phonographic. Particular figures emerge -- artists, writers, musicians --, and the power of the imagination pervades throughout.

Arranged in thirteen chapters, this conversation was carried out between 2004 and 2007. It takes the reader into a rich and complex body of work that resonates with themes that touch many art forms.

Puisqu'à toute fin correspond -- Entretiens is the 8th title to be published at Éditions Nicole Gingras, a publishing house supporting artists from Québec .

The 140-page book is published in French, in a limited edition of 500 copies, and includes the photograph of a work by Raymond Gervais, courtesy of Roland Poulin.

Graphic design: Dominique Mousseau

Printing: L'Empreinte

ISBN 978-2-9805019-5-1

Produced with the assistance of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Born in 1946, Raymond Gervais lives in Montreal. Attentive to the relationships of equivalence between sound, text and images, he has produced installations and performances that lie at the crossroads of music, literature, and the visual arts. Records, turntables and CD cases play an important role in his research and practice. His texts (critical commentaries, essays, and artist's texts), which have been published in catalogues, anthologies, and periodicals, deal as much with musicians and visual artists as with his own art practice. Works by Raymond Gervais may be found in the collections of many museums throughout Quebec and Canada.