Comment tenir le vide, video, 2023
carrying, family, glass, performance, video | 2023
Comment tenir le vide : 3 tentatives (How to hold the emptiness: 3 attempts) The central theme of loss in this performative video work is portrayed through the attempt to hold onto breakable and intangible elements: glass, wind, sand or intimate relationships. Although the video actions implicate some endurance, they mostly speak to poetic connections […]
Articles
Esse art+opinions, no.107: Famille/Family, Winter 2023 Portfolio: Rachel Echenberg, Noémi Fortin Article: La famille comme laboratoire de création/The family as creative laboratory, Alexandra Tourigny Fleury
Residency
January 1-8, 2023, Jardins sans murs Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment, QC
Exhibition
Biennial 15, Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Nov.3 – Dec.3, 2022 Warren G Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, QC
Public Art
September 24-October 16, 2022 Zoom Art Laval, curated by Geneviève Goyer-Ouimette Métro Montmorency, Laval, Quebec
Performance
July 16, 2022 La Traversée des Grandes Eaux Atelier du Hézo Art Contemporaine, Le Hézo, France
Video Screenings 2022
Couple September 3, 2022 Les Percéides, Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques, Gaspésie July 2-9, 2022 Tranas at the Fringe, Tranas, Sweden April 6-30, 2022 Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse France March 16 – 27, 2022 Festival International du Film sur l’Art and MUTEK, Montreal Absorptions, curated by Aseman Sabet
Boxed, performance, 2021
carrying, family, glass, performance | 2021
Boxed in collaboration with Sol Echenberg Worsnip We enter carrying large cardboard boxes filled with glass dishes. The interior of the boxes are amplified so that the audience hears the glass as it bangs together. We let go of the bottoms of the boxes, letting the glass objects crash on the ground. We put the […]
Video Screenings 2021
How to explain performance art to my teenage daughter. Oct. 21, 2021 The Curatorial Incubator, v.17: On the Other Side – It’s Heaven, Program #3 – Embodied Intimacies: Gesturing Towards Understanding, curated by Ashley Raghubir Sept.11, 2021 Inter Media Art Institute – The Age of Unreason curated by Wanda vanderStoop
Residency
Seuls et Ensembles, créer du lien, June 6- 26, 2021 collaboration with Sebastien Worsnip, curated by Martin Dufrasne AdMare, Îles de la Madelaine
Conversations with my Family, video series, 2020-22
carrying, family, installation, performance, video | 2020, 2022
Conversations with my Family An ongoing series of one-to-one performance videos that attempts to gage the scale, force and weight of intimate interactions. Begun in 2018, this video project measures familial connections against a variety of landscapes. Each non-verbal conversation requires endurance and patience to structure a portrait of the relationship. Conversation with my Husband, […]