Guillaume La Brie (Québec) will seek mainly to marry the notions of place and object in creating his sculptures. His strategy for using space will play a dominant role.
	The collective Zoné Vert (Québec), made up of artists Michel Bachelet and Christine Juillard, have produced major works in nature revolving around the notions of landscape and the close interconnections between the ecosystems’ different components, and will draw their inspiration here from these experiences.
	Wes Johnston (Nova Scotia) will focus on the found object as raw material and anchor for the work he creates. Revealing human activity, excess and overconsumption, objects are transformed and give rise to new concepts and realities.
	Sherri Hay (United States) will call into play her multidisciplinary practice that encompasses both miniature sculpture and large-scale installation, drawing, painting, performance and video, with particular emphasis on materiality and minute detail. She explores how appearances can be deceptive, confounding the certainties of the gaze through the phenomena of perception.
	Humberto Díaz (Cuba) will share his poetic, philosophical imagery surrounding the representation of “reality” as artistic material. His performances, installations and architectural interventions explore the interstices of the real world, the cracks between the “genuine” and the “simulated,” through works that are sometimes subtle and nearly imperceptible, and sometimes spectacular.
	Mónica Bengoa (Chile) will illustrate her visual exploration of the notion of private space and the way it expands physically, through different pictorial and sculptural strategies (drawing, painting, use of objects) that create formal exchanges between materials, supports and formats.
	Composer: Jean-François Blouin
	Poet / performer: José Acquelin

NEW IN 2013:
Come see the artists at work from July 6 to 13 

A LIVING SITE!
In addition to being a place to discover the latest Symposium, the Jardins du Précambrien have, over the years, become a living site, marked by the many creative artists who have passed through it and left perceptible traces of their works since 2005. The most recent that can be visited again are those from 2012, by Val-David artists Normand Ménard and Pierre Dostie, and Mexican artists Maribel Portela and Paloma Torres. Also on view are a dozen or so other pieces produced between 2005 and 2011, such as those by Pascale Girardin, Cal Lane, Terrance Houle and Betsabeé Romero (2011), Marc Walter (2010), and Suzanne FerlandL, Jennifer Stillwell and Fernando Rodríguez Falcón (2009).