New Brunswick Performance Art Tour | On Saturday 9th in Moncton

PERFform 19 ••• New Brunswick Performance Art Tour

Linda Rae Dornan
Mathieu Léger
Luc A. Charette
Gillian Dykeman
Monelle Doiron
Denis Lanteigne

 

Moncton, N.B., January 15, 2019 – Between 24 January to 2 March, 2019, Galerie Sans Nom presents PERFform, a Performance Art Tour in the province of New Brunswick. This tour will feature five New Brunswick artists who practice performance art: Linda Rae Dornan (Sackville), Mathieu Léger (Moncton), Luc A. Charette (Bouctouche), Gillian Dykeman (Fredericton), Monelle Doiron (Caraquet), and Denis Lanteigne (Caraquet). PERFform aims to bring performance art throughout the province with this tour, hoping to disseminate an artistic practice that is more obscure from the tradition of visual arts. Made possible through a Touring Grant from the Ministry of Tourism, Heritage, and Culture of the Province of New Brunswick, this tour will bring the artists to 9 communities throughout the province. The artists have prepared a series of performances created specifically for the only tour of its kind in New Brunswick. Artists’ statements can be found below.

For interviews or more information, please contact Galerie Sans Nom or PERFform directly at the details provided below. For times of performances please consult the Facebook event and the website.

Annie France Noël
Director – Galerie Sans Nom : [email protected]
Tel: 506.854.5381

Mathieu Léger & Linda Rae Dornan
PERFform : [email protected]

Twitter & Instagram: @Perfform
Facebook Event :
Web: www.perfform.ca

Dates & locations :

All evenings will begin at 7 pm
Galerie Colline – Edmundston – Thursday 24 January
Connexion Artist-Run Centre – Fredericton – Friday 25 January
Galerie d’art du Centre culturel Kent Sud – Bouctouche – Saturday 26 January
Bibliothèque du centenaire – Campbellton – Thursday 7 February
Galerie Bernard-Jean – Caraquet – Friday 8 February
Galerie Sans Nom – Moncton – Saturday 9 February
Sunbury Shores Art & Nature Centre – Saint Andrews – Thursday 21 February
Third Space Gallery – Saint John – Friday 22 February
Struts Gallery – Sackville – Saturday 2 March

Artists’ statements:

Linda Rae Dornan’s art practice is performative and interdisciplinary, inclusive of video, installation, performance and writing. Each feeds into the other exploring how we speak/communicate and connect to each other about language, place, memory and being. In a series of connected performance shorts, Dornan will perform fragments of mark making, orality, and gestures. Recent performances include 7a11d in Toronto, La Fonderie Darling, Montréal, and Visualeyez Performance Art Festival, Edmonton. She has been making performance art for thirty years.

Since 01996, Mathieu Léger has been interested in performance art. His performance work engages notions of personal, social, and cultural boundaries, territory, in/visibility, language, and communication. He works in time specific projects lasting up to and beyond 20 years. For PERFform 19, Léger will continue developing his series In Regard to Rendering (2016-present). These works are a performance experiment in matter, time, and form using objects and actions that speak about the temporary and the permanent. He is a serial artist-in-residence. Recently, Léger has performed at the Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec (RiAP), the Wandering Arts Biennial in Brussels, and the Darling Foundry in Montreal.

Luc A. Charette is fascinated by the visual mechanisms that inhabit popular culture and cyberculture. His professional practice, which dates back to 1972, brings together several disciplines: sculptural installation, photographic montage, digital multimedia, painting, and performance. He combines various techniques and visual codes to develop hybrid works that challenge our contemporary representation systems and address conceptual concerns such as time, language, representation, and identity. In the field of performance, he materializes innocuous gestures, often zany, in order to question the notions of work within the framework of a creative activity.

Gillian Dykeman’s artistic practice is preoccupied with identity, class, feminism, and utopia. Through performances and installations that tensely operate between parody and sincerity, the artist works to reveal and critique the absurd conventions that sustain a status quo premised on patriarchy, greed, and social insecurity. REVOLUTION REVOLUTION harnesses the amazing energies generated in a room of people focusing together on a demanding task. What is the energy of capitalism? What is the energy of revolution? How do we better engineer our energetic outputs to formulate new ways of being…to radically reimagine what it is we’re doing with our lives? Our life-force? Our love?

Monelle Doiron comes from a contemporary dance background and Denis Lanteigne is a visual artist and photographer. Their collective, Les drôles de Moineaux, began in 2015 with the creation of the choreography Traverses. This work, created from structured improvisations, uses simple and repetitive movements, incorporating linear, circular, or static space. The collective begins with a desire to explore the presence of the moving body in space, whether through dance, performance, or video. A body inhabits a very personal story, it reacts to the confrontation to another body. This series explores what is really happening in the body, without magnifying it, but letting it live in all its truth.