Luc Grenier

Hello!
I am an interdisciplinary artist working based in Boston, MA, USA thinking about time (all the time, and at all times) using a variety of art media.





Kourken

2024
Kourken
Kourken is a video installation and performance which uses the repetition in particular symbologies of Armenian visual culture and history as a mode of communicating a familial narrative on disapora and continuance.


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2024
In [has.taˈtak].html, your interaction proliferates the visual signs of Armenian architecture with the same regularity in which they appear in a collected data set reflecting on memory, heritage, time, and migration.


Two Essays

2022
Two Essays
Two Essays is a two-channel video installation and non-narrative publication  which questions the confines of the physical space it inhabits; featuring an accompanying publication, two seperate videos are synced to become one cohesive film. 



Narrative as Found Object

2023
Narrative as Found Object: Cinematic Storytelling of the Taiwanese New Wave
 Narrative as Found Object: Cinematic Storytelling of the Taiwanese New Wave is a research project culminating in a scholarly monograph and creative publication concerning the work of  two prominent Taiwanese directors. 


webgazing

2022
This series of risograph prints uses a JavaScript to track the movement of the artist’s gaze across a screen displaying scenes from a film. The “watching-data” accounts for where the viewer’s eye spent the most time.



Co-Op Play

2024
This artist’s book and gameset borrows its aesthetics and function from a popular party game, but with altered gameplay and winning conditions, participants are encouraged to cooperate with one another, rather than compete.


Backup Copy

2024
This packaged print-product replicates the artist’s hardrive: in a limited edition, these hyperreal simulacra make an additional copy of their referent while stripping it of its utility.


Auscultation 2023-12-12 19:33:24:29

2023
This sound performance uses the artists’ live heartbeat as a temporal device for making and distorting musical meter.


Thermochromic Pigments / Animated Sequences

2023
This research funded by the Schwartz-Paddock Fellowship for the visual and performing arts uses thermochromic silkscreen inks–pigments which shift in hue when exposed to heat–as a means of exploring temporality in printed and animated processes. 


Script

2023
Script is an interactive web-based narrative which uses basic HTML and JavaScript to explore ideas of time and place through repetitive imagery and engagement.