Le Labo presents the short documentary ‘The 2022 Virtual Tour: The Third Tongue / La troisième langue’ from February 3 to 28, 2022.

Join Carolina Reis, the project curator, as she takes you behind the scenes of programming a tour in the midst of COVID-19. How do we rethink a distribution project featuring eight short films and a visual arts component when travel to other artist-run centers is impossible? What does the idea of a linguistic community mean when our only means of communication has become digital due to lockdown?

Since we were unable to travel to meet Francophone artists from across Canada, we have brought them to you here!
You will have the chance to see:
– Rémi Belliveau, artist from New Brunswick
– Claudia Bernal, artist from Quebec
– Lou-Anne Bourdeau, artist from Manitoba
– Denis Taman Bradette, artist from Northern Ontario
– Marie Dauverné, artist from Quebec
– Laura Demers, artist from Ontario
– Zoong Nguyen, artist from Alberta

The pandemic has shaken many things, including opinions we thought were firm and projects we thought were finalized! Discover it now.

Editing and subtitling: Sophie Dusmeny

A big thank you to our partners from coast to coast:
-Vucavu
-Centre d’arts visuels de l’Alberta (CAVA) – Edmonton
https://www.galeriecava.com/
-Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GNO) – Sudbury
https://gn-o.org/
-Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) – Montreal
https://givideo.org/
-La Maison des Artistes visuels francophones – Winnipeg
https://maisondesartistes.mb.ca/
-CFMDC
https://www.cfmdc.org/
-VTape
https://vtape.org/

This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.