Threshold, 2017

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MR-63 metro door, microcontroller and programming.
Works on 120 volt, 0.5 amps.
274 x 60 x 210cm

Threshold is the last remaining operational door that survived after MR-63 subway vehicles were decommissioned in 2017. The door opens and closes through programming that reproduces the daily course of its useful life. It kicks in at 5:30 am in the direction of Honoré-Beaugrand, the door opens and closes while waiting for the next station and continues its course until 12:35 at night. An LCD screen shows the route and displays in seconds the duration of the journey to the next station and the opening and closing times of the doors.
The installation preserves and requalifies the internal mechanics of the original devices, highlighting and reaffirming the innovation coiled dormant in the heart of obsolescence. Two eras meet and converge, recently integrated circuit technology governs mechanical elements that have become obsolete.
The MR-63s marked the imagination of collective travel in Montreal, the artistic project helps to keep this technical memory vibrant. In our consumerist societies, the obsolescence of technological objects is accelerating in a process of depreciation of the forms of the past. The history of technical developments contained in each breakthrough is quickly disqualified in disruptive chains of innovation. The pieces reused after a period of inactivity nevertheless contain a treasure of human inventiveness, the daily story of which this installation perpetuates.







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