Programme triple
CLOSING EVENT
Sunday June 1st at 9:00pm
Église Ste-Brigide de Kildare
$20 adult / $15 emerging price (35 years and under) / $12 student
83 min + intermission
Evening sponsors:
Étienne Boulanger/ Julie-Andrée T.
Performance
He works on effort, danger and the limitations of the body.
She works on her own neglected, lost, and unproductive spaces.
Between poetry, handcrafted constructions and real risk-taking,
the worlds of Étienne Boulanger et Julie-Andrée T. collide in a
unique physical dialogue where the fragile bodies of people are
balanced on 2x4.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE – Étienne Boulanger & Julie-Andrée T.
Étienne Boulanger’s artistic research perturbs human’s relation to spatial positioning systems. By placing his body in disequilibrium, in an unstable and disrupted state, the artist creates a utopia of precarious points of reference. Using rudimentary tools such as pendulums, hoists or pulleys, and combining them with image and sound-based new technologies, he stretches or modifies his body to become an extension of the poetic gesture itself.
Etienne Boulanger teaches art at the Collège d’Alma. He is also a member of the collective Crédule 40. His works have been presented in galleries, museums and events in Canada, France, Singapore, Indonesia and China.
Julie Andrée T. studied visual arts in Montreal. Placing the body and space at the core of her approach, she initially made her mark as a performance and installation artist. Professionally active since 1996, she has presented her work in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. With a certain disregard for the conventions and codes of performance and theater, she had presented Not Waterproof / L’érosion d’un corps erroné and Rouge, at Festival TransAmériques in 2009, and in 2010 at the Avignon Festival. Other works have been shown at the Havana Biennal (2002), Liverpool Biennal (2010) among other venues and events.
She has been a member of the collective performance group Black Market International since 2003. An occasional curator, she has also taught performance art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
For Julie Andrée T. , practicing art should be a reflection of daily life and the dark ages we are presently in. Body and space are at the center of her research. She uses the body as a vehicle, turning it into a metaphor, into poetry. She tries to reach a place where personal identity is lost. Although this is a utopia, it might be the only way to find a common abstract language to understand what we do and who we are. She is actually pursuing a theoretical and practical research on the theme of landscape and death, and the relationship to the esthetic of sublime and the dramaturgy of it. Nature Morte in Sopot is part of a series that begun in 2012.
OFFTA 2014 | Vidéo sous le drap | Comment arracher les pétales d'une rose avec un 2x4 from OFFTA on Vimeo.
