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10th FIMA is offering you a series of wild and delirious performances,
created by multidisciplinary artists from Quebec and Ontario. Those
interactive activities will call out to you and mess you up, take you
into an adventure, a thought, and sheer madness!!! They will take place
in a tent, as well as in the Experimental Laboratory.
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RACHEL ECHENBERG
RIE(N)Z
The audience is invited to share a one-minute
encounter with the artist. In a playful attempt to mix intimacy, trust
and control, this piece uses laughter to run between private and public
relationships.
Biography
Montreal artist Rachel Echenberg has a multidisciplinary
art practice that includes performance, video and sculpture. She holds
a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and
an MA in Visual Performance from Dartington College of Arts in the UK.
Since 1992, Echenberg’s work has been exhibited, performed and
screened throughout Canada, the United States and Europe, as well as
in Chile, Lebanon, Morocco and Japan.
Artist statement
My art practice explores live presence by highlighting
vulnerable, intimate and uncontrollable relationships. I am interested
in how proximity and dislocation affect the exchange between an artwork
and its viewer. In the positioning of my actions, I am wondering about
possibilities for active empathy and productive exchange from an anonymous
perspective.
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VICTORIA
STANTON
DUO-PORTRAIT
Duo-portrait is an opportunity to stop. To
slow down. To shut down. To turn off. To unwind. To zone out. To space
out. To blank. With a complete stranger. Together we will create a portrait
of “nowhere.” You and me on a sofa in a tent. Nowhere to
be but here, now. Now, let me put my hand on yours or your hand on mine
and together we will...relax. Is it possible? Let’s find out.
Biography
Victoria Stanton (Montreal, Canada) is a performance
artist, video-maker, and writer of fiction, poetry, critical texts,
and songs. She has presented text-based, visual and relational time-based
work, as well as video performances / videopoems, in Canada, the U.S.,
Europe, the U.K., Australia and Japan. Her creative and critical writings
have been published in Canadian and American anthologies and art/literary/lifestyle
magazines. She is the co-author with Vincent Tinguely of Impure: Reinventing
the Word (conundrum press, 2001).
Artist statement
In an effort to blur the boundaries between art
and life and to complicate the relationship between the role of the
“artist” and “spectator,” between “real-time”
and “art-time,” I often present “transactional”
performances that work toward producing transformative, revelatory moments.
I am ultimately interested in exploring and revealing a “performative
consciousness” – a state of being that underscores the potential
performativity of any situation; one that appropriates and disrupts
the quotidian, embraces spontaneous intimacy, elicits transformative
moments, and treads vulnerability.
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OWEN ERIC WOOD
THE CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN The
Clothes Make the Man comments on the power fashion has over the way
people are perceived. Within fractions of a second, personality traits
are attached to a person based on what he or she is wearing. From educational
background to economic status, from political affiliation to sexual
orientation, clothing is heavy with labels. The artist presents images
of himself in a number of outfits that represent various identities.
He invites the public to join him in the act of constructing paper dolls
of himself to reflect who they think he is, or who they would like him
to be.
Biography/ Artist statement
Owen Eric Wood is an interdisciplinary artist whose
recent works explore the mergence of sculpture, performance and video.
His background in journalism and visual arts assist in the relationships
he creates between text and images. Wood studied fine arts at Concordia
University in Montreal and journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto,
where he also worked as a researcher and writer for the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC). His art works have been exhibited internationally
in Germany, Spain, Brazil and the United Kingdom, as well as locally
in Montreal at festivals such as the Festival International du Film
sur l'Art (FIFA) and Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois.
“My work can be linked by the conceptual approaches I adopt. The
most obvious link is my continuous use of the self portrait, which I
use to anchor personal meaning in such universal themes as relationships,
identity and family.”
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ANDRÉANNE
ABBONDANZA-BERGERON
LANGUAGE OF THE GAZE
Language
of the gaze
In ''Language of the gaze'', Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron expresses
the desire for unresolved communication and attempts to create contact
between people through the medium of performance art. Her work addresses
interpersonal exchanges and opens up the stage for direct interaction
with the visitors; an exchange which could translate in nothing more
than a gaze.
Biography
Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron was born in
1984, in Montreal, Canada. Upon completing her Cegep degree in Visual
Arts, she obained a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, specializing
in sculpture at Concordia University in 2007. She is presently engaged
in post-graduate studies in Art Education at Concordia University.
Artist statement
Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron's sculptures,
installations and performances are concerned with the study of social
interactions, be they exchanges between people or between an individual
and an art piece. She manifests herself in her work, approaching her
art through a process of intuitive psychology. She examines her own
reactions to express the complexities, attractions and tensions found
in relationships, while always keeping in mind the possibilities of
acceptance and rejection that underlie these relationships
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JUAN CARLOS JARAMILLO
GRACIA
ONE DAY, ANY DAY
The
performance develops as part of an action of overconsumption, anexcessive
act, with a table full of a variety of foods that beccon one to taste
them. The performance is accompanied by projections of arhythmic immages.
The artist eats all of the food in an act of deperation and folly. Finally,
he vomits as a reaction to his excess. The performance is accompanied
by lively music thanks to the collaboration of Mexican pianist, Mauricio
Duran.
Biography
Juan Carlos Jaramillo Gracia is a multi-disciplined visual artist working
with performances and installations. Daily life is the motor that drives
his creativity. Art and life melt there, where everything is possible,
where we identify ourselves, where we can satisfy our needs.
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LOUISE
DUBREUIL
CONFLITS CONTAINERS
"Conflict Containers" is a relational performance
piece. It is an open invitation to meet and share in a transformative
collaboration. This intimate process takes a seriously playful approach
to creative conflict management in order to yield a resilient, reusable
& stylish healing tool.
Artist statement
I am a Montreal based interdisciplinary feminist
artist working in visual and performance art. I am consumed with the
desire and pleasure of collecting, assembling and transforming organic
and inorganic garbage into hybrid artworks. Through my intuitive, intellectual,
humorous and obsessive creative process, I am always striving to express
the universal by exposing the personal.
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| LES FERMIÈRES
OBSÉDÉES
THE EDULCORATE THEATRE
Behind the black curtain, a story is in its making.
Music emerges and footsteps can be heard. Strange engines appear and
move towards the public, powered by a mysterious force. Curtain. Real
and fictive characters confront each other on a disorganized canevas.
All of a sudden, a story unfolds before our eyes, completely opposite
to what we had imagined it to be.
Biography
Fermières Obsédées is a collective
composed of three visual artists from Quebec City (Annie Baillargeon,
Eugénie Cliche et Catherine Plaisance). Their performances are
live tableaux where a multitude of symbolic and metaphorical images
string together to evoke our world's ever-changing nature. They question
the pursuit of power, and address individual as well as collective quests
for identity. They develop a visual language which mixes tragic and
burlesque in a cross disciplinary approach. Since 2001, they have presented
their work in various festivals, artist run centers and museums in Quebec,
Canada, Australia, France, Northern Ireland, Wales and Poland.
Artist statement
Through action art, the Fermières Obsédées
work to create metaphorical images which find their source in concrete
political positions. Creating a multiplicity of contrasts and disturbing
scenic games, they hold the spectator breathless, not knowing in which
direction he will be taken. Purified and schematized gestures mix with
flashy tricks which dazzle the spectator for a short instant. Within
a dispossessed theatre, they embody various attitudes, attempting to
find balance between human strengths and weaknesses. The artists created
a collective image by wearing a uniform which evolves and mutates as
they progress. With this costume, the Fermières find themselves
part of a narrative thread. This interchangeability generates a participative
endorsement of one another's acts and gestures; a domino effect comparable
to the standardization forces of our modern society.
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SHANNON
COCHRANE
FLY SCHOOL:instructions for flight
Fly School: Instruction for Flight is a 4-hour performance
experiment to prove that time doesn't fly, it floats. The artist proposes
to "school" the Experimental Laboratory in the art of flying
by filling the room and tethering it to several hundred helium balloons
in an attempt to make it float away. Of course, this is a proposition
that is destined to fail at the artist's hand. Fly School: Instruction
for Flight is a continuation of the artist's practice of employing choreographed
audience interaction to create large scale playful images, and of using
air (or in this case, helium) as a visible 'material'.
Biography/Statement
Shannon Cochrane is a Toronto based artist and performer.
Her work has been presented internationally at theatre festivals, performance
art events and in galleries big and small for all kinds of audiences
in Toronto, Montréal, Halifax, Vancouver, Switzerland, Sweden,
UK, USA, Poland, Chile and Germany. Shannon is the Artistic and Administrative
Director of FADO Performance Art Centre, and is one of the organizers
and co-founders of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance
Art (Toronto, established in 1997).
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FRANCIS MARCIL
SHOOTING ON SPEED
Welcome to a world of over-consumption which we call
2009. No one escapes it, especially not the entertainment industry.
After fast-food and speed dating: the Flashmovie, a format that saves
you from all the boring blahblah and leaves you with just the action.
These films have been remade in Flash and MGM has hired a director from
Quebec to film the new “Speed” with Keanu Reeves, on a Quebec
budget of $13.50, for a twenty-minute version in only a three-hour shoot!
Overwhelmed with unhappiness, Sandra Bullock, standing in for a real
actress this summer, can not be here. So, if you feel the Keanu or the
Sandra in you, come take part in the shoot, live in the streets of Montreal.
Lights, camera, imagination, bad actors, action!!
Biography
Two fingers, an electrical outlet, two fingers,
an electrical outlet: electrical shock. Twelve years later, I find myself
studying cinema at CEGEP de Valleyfield and at the Show business school
in Montreal which almost discouraged me in cinema and art. I then worked
at the regretted Spectrum and Medley. The art of the spectacle called
me again. Constantly writing, playing in student horror shows, bored
on a Tuesday afternoon. Two fingers, an electrical outlet, two fingers,
an electrical outlet: electric shock, twelve years later...we shall
see.
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