The Snowball Project—Twinvilles

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While in residence at Western Front, French artist Alain Gibertie initiated a slowscan exchange with Espace Donguy, Paris using custom software by Robert Richardson. The transmission took part of Gibertie’s Snowball Project–Twinvilles, an art action that linked large cities with tiny villages around the world through correspondence art and telecommunications, establishing “twinships” between international sites. 

As part of the project, Gibertie performed his short piece Two Villages. It began with Gibertie lighting a candle that was placed on a lectern, where an egg attached to a piece of thread dangled above. Gibertie then proceeded to read a text from behind a plexiglas screen. The showing included a display of drawings on the walls of the Grand Luxe Hall done by children in both Vancouver and St. Paul La Roche, exchanged as part of the Snowball Project.