Vincent Isabel is a tinkerer, sound artist, and performer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. His practice explores the web of relationships connecting human bodies, the environment, and technology. Using assemblages of electrical circuits, salvaged objects, and organic materials, he creates noise-based instruments and installations. In his work, he provokes and harnesses the loss of control as a driving force for performance; spaces of error and glitch become moments of shifting identity, challenging the power dynamics between the human and the non-human. The imagination he explores aims to propose alternative relationships with technological objects.
He works in an artisanal manner, playing with the arrangement of raw materials and new media. He leads workshops on DIY electronics, programming, and the use of microcontrollers to make technology-related skills more accessible to everyone. Vincent holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Emily Carr University and a Master of Arts from Laval University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in music at the University of Montreal.
