Emma Lavigne is curator in the Department of Contemporary and Emerging Art at the Musée national d’art moderne–Centre Pompidou. Formerly curator of twentieth-century music at Paris’s Cité de la musique, she has curated a number of exhibitions exploring: the relationship between music and contemporary art, including Electric Body and Espace Odyssée; rock and the contemporary music scene in Jimi Hendrix Backstage, Pink Floyd Interstellar and John Lennon: Unfinished Music, presented from October 2005 to June 2006 at the Cité de la musique, an exhibition which enabled her to forge closer ties with Yoko Ono; and the work of artists like Chen Zhen, Saâdane Afif, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster. Most recently, she presented the work of video and sound artist Christian Marclay in the exhibition Replay at Montreal’s DHC/Art Fondation pour l’art contemporain. She was also co-curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Warhol Live.

Emma Lavigne is assisted by Thierry Planelle, an art director and sound designer. Formerly art director at Virgin Music/EMI and visual and sound creative director for Virgin France, he now designs soundtracks for the showings of the Hermès and Jean Paul Gaultier fashion collections. An independent producer for the Maturity Music label, he is also a founding member of Paris’s Radio Nova. Recently, he created the aural design for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Warhol Live.

The exhibition will also benefit from the collaboration of Thierry Loriot, Research Assistant in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Curatorial Department, and Karla Merrifield, Yoko Ono’s archivist.

Éric Daoust, from the Montreal agency Bosses Design, is responsible for the design of the exhibition. Graphic design is by Philippe Legris.

Interview with Thierry Planelle (M Magazine)

CONTRIBUTORS

Mrs. Joan Athey
Monsieur Jacques Bourdon, Le Journal de Montréal
Mr. Joe Donohue
Monsieur Pierre Dury
Mr. Paul and Mrs. Suzanne Etheridge
Mr. Bob Gruen
Madame Vasthie Grousson
Mr. Mike Heatley, EMI Music, London
Monsieur Ivan Lacroix
Mr. Jerry Levitan
Monsieur André et Yaël Brandeis Perry
Mrs. Karla Merrifield, Studio One
Monsieur Frank Marlot, Galerie Denise René, Paris
Mr. Keith McMillan
Mr. Jonas Mekas
Madame Catherine Menadier, Galerie Denise René, Paris
Mr. Brian Merrett
Monsieur Thierry Planelle
Madame Denise René, Galerie Denise René, Paris
Monsieur Martin Tremblay, La Presse
Monsieur Gilles Valiquette
Yodan Productions/Brian Panella Entertainment