"Infinitisme.com: FINAL NOTICE" by Frédérique Laliberté is a sculptural and sound installation created from the material and virtual debris of "Infinitisme.com Forever A Prototype", a work that was presented in previous editions of "The Dead Web" exhibition. Originally, the installation took the form of a handmade Internet consisting of papier-mâché hard drives and other crafted processors, as well as a website. Over time, the latter fell into disuse, its domain name was not renewed, and the artist witnessed the project’s demise, announced by a series of “final notices” sent by her web host. The new artwork echoes this to us from the ocean floor, where the computer hardware lies dormant. The installation bears witness to the entropic process that governs all things, living or inert. Time passes, wear and tear progresses and takes its toll on objects: materials settle, deteriorate, and transform. The work also highlights technological obsolescence and its consequences: the global accumulation of electronic waste is now a major aspect of the global environmental crisis we are facing—and the Internet plays a part in this. At the same time, imagining our daily lives without the web is becoming increasingly difficult. And as we delay in addressing this issue, the planet is sending us its final notice.
Frédérique Laliberté (CA): "Infinitisme.com: FINAL NOTICE", 2026
papier-mâché, cardboard, cork, plastic, metal, textiles, debris, digital prints on Murakumo and Bond paper, lights, email archives, voice
Frédérique Laliberté (CA)
Frédérique Laliberté is an unknown stand-up comedian, an outdated geek, and a future set designer. She does not specialize in anything, except perhaps papier-mâché. Immersing herself in adventures that are both material and narrative–taking the form of investigations, workshops, films, and performances–Laliberté tells stories in complicity with objects, materials at the end of their useful life and discarded materials. She is currently continuing her shenanigans as a research-creation PhD candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal. Frédérique Laliberté has shown her polymorphous projects internationally in white cubes, black boxes and basements, on the waters of a river, between piles of gravel in a suburban wasteland as well as in the Sahara Desert. She lives, works, and sails along the so-called St. Lawrence River.
