(1) The first Periphériques was held on March 26 2003 at Rad'a Gallery in Montreal (www.radamontreal.com).
Andrée-Anne Clermont intervened in the gallery space proposing a mix of poetry, urban intervention and fugitive daily art.
Éloi Ménard et A+A (Anouk Pennel-Duguay et Antoine Lafontaine) followed with a set of live audiovisual experiments , involving feedback improv and digitally treated sound from a film screening, made out of cut-ups and engraving.
Komsomolsk, (1932; from komsomols, 2003; Julie Rousse and Philémon) proposed: 1.medic. Anarchic sound constructions, spontaneous and chaotic, in search of equilibrium. 2. by extension Resurgence of savagery in electronics.
The night ended in the neighbouring garage space, where people packed up in a claustrophobic atmosphere for the biofeedback/biosignal encounter of Alexis Bellavance and Mathieu Lévesque.Through stress management and metabolical analysis, they controlled, using regulating body elements, the feedback of biological information originating from a human system. Psycho-physiological response in a live concert situation.
