Maskull Lasserre
2021 | MASKULL LASSERRE
MONTREAL
June 15 - Aug 14
Maskull Lasserre, The Antebellum Orchestra Project: Cavalry Violin, 2019, violin, scope, laser sight, sling, bayonet, case, potential sound/action 6” x 16” x 40”
June 15 - August 14, 2021
After having travelled to Afghanistan as an artist with the Canadian Forces, Lasserre has developed a body of work that plays with the ontology of objecthood. The artist engineered functioning musical devices drawing from the realms of military weaponry and traditional symphony orchestra. The visual form and the designed function of these objects is balanced between the divergent theatres of music and war. This body of work adopts objects of discipline, training and allegiance that belong to disparate discourses and contexts and brings them together into a singular and functioning form, thus yielding a dialogue between two otherwise dissociate fields. Through his artistic process, Lasserre explores how cultural mechanisms of harmony and violence can be coopted, conflated and spun.