Nicole McDonald-Fournier (Nicole Fournier)

artiste interdisciplinaire / interdisciplinary artist / artiste visuelle / visual artist / artiste de la performance / performance artist / co-performeuse avec l'environnement vivant / co-performer with the living environment / researcher / chercheure / herbalist / herboriste / facilitatrice / facilitator / environmental polyagricultural permaculture educator through art / sensibilisatrice à l'environnement, polyagriculture et permaculture par l'art

Brooklyn, New York City - March 28th, 2008 "Dining, Vegetable Peels & Color"

Nicole Fournier performing at GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE (holding up evidence of staining with strawberries)

“INTIMATE / TRANSPARENT”
FRIDAY, MARCH 28TH, 2008
at GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE in Brooklyn, NY, USA

"Dining, Vegetable Peels & Color", performance by Nicole Fournier, as part of "INTIMATE / TRANSPARENT",
involves peeling vegetables (such as carrots and beets) and, on a pile of soil, making a design with the vegetables peels. The audience will be invited to peel, cut, stain and cook vegetables with me and then we dine together upon the meal we have prepared.
Beginning in 2004, Fournier’s performances have embraced participatory and environmental aesthetics that explore collaboration and intimate actions in public contexts (on privately or publicly owned land). Her site specific concept of “Live Dining”, since 2005, is about edible and non-edible as well as both wild and cultivated plants, as essential elements of dining.

2009 Interconnected Performers by Nicole Fournier, artwork-curatorial art project

2009 - challenging the idea of artist / curator at the same time, making literally fresh edible, off the wall of the gallery abstract art, in continuation of abstract art traditions, but addressing food and cooking issues, in the gallery, as food is free and everyone is invited to eat, including your dogs. Live action preparing food, compost, on the ground on your tablecloth, with decomposing food nearby validated, fungi, bacteria and airborn microbes are always with us - the invisible performers. (read more on blog)..... Interconnected Performers / Performers interconnectées, image of "The interconnections of people, dogs, fungi, food...performing" by Nicole Fournier, photo by Tagny Duff - feb 1st 2009, moment in performance from Nicole Fournier "painting with food, she made with public on the ground of the gallery, as a live action performance of edible abstract painting, for people and dogs to be eaten live off the wall of the gallery, made of purées of spinach, carrot, potato, onion, parsley, olive oil, garlic...repetition, repetition....

Vision de Nicole Fournier mandat d'InTerreArt / art contemporain / Art Éco interdisciplinaire

InTerreArt a été fondé en février 2008, pour réaliser et disséminer la vision interdisciplinaire d’art de Nicole Fournier , rassemblant Art-Communautés-Environnement : Art se définit par pratiques d’art engagées « LifeArt » (inclusive des disciplines en Arts et Sciences & non-disciplines, connaissances traditionnelles, ancestrales écologiques pour la santé de tous); Communautés est la diversité de peuples et individus, leurs participation par leurs créativités et voix uniques. Environnement reflète notre contact direct avec la Nature, Sa Biodiversité (les trillions d’espèces micro à macro), nos interconnexions, les cycles de la vie, la créativité dans le 3RV (réemploi, recyclage, réduction à la source), santé et alimentation reconnecté directement à la la planète. Ainsi promouvoir la polyagriculture, l’agriculture urbaine, flore & faune urbain, verdissement des villes et ressources naturelles urbains. Parler urbain pour addresser la population lié aux enjeux locaux et globaux. Car si nous pouvons vivre plutôt à l’échelle local nous pourrons laisser le reste de la planète tranquille, et arrêter la destruction de la biodiversité de nos forêts planétaires. L’idée est que nos ressources naturelles proviennent de l’innovation d’agriculture écologique urbaine et périurbaine, en lien avec la croissance et l’intégration des écosystèmes de la flore et faune urbain et périurbain de nos villes.

VISION OF NICOLE FOURNIER / MANDATE OF INTERREART

CONTEMPORARY ART / INTERDISCIPLINARY, ECO ART

InTerreArt was founded in February 2008, to realize and disseminate Nicole Fournier’s interdisciplinary art vision of bringing together Art-Communities-Environnement, that is, engaged art practices, which include nondisciplines and disciplines in arts, sciences, traditional ecological knowledge, environmental health and social services, participation of community members, sustainable greening of cities, biodiversity, urban agriculture, urban wilderness, as Art, in addressing environmental issues on a local and global scale. International inspiration between 1950’s – 80’s include: Suzanne Lacy (engaged art practices), Joseph Beuys ("social sculpture"), Agnes Denes, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Linda Montano.

Récolter-dessiner-cuisiner-nourrir / Harvest-Draw-Cook-Nourish 2011 - ongoing

Récolter-dessiner-cuisiner-nourrir / Harvest-Draw-Cook-Nourish 2011 - ongoing : Récolte fraîche, transformer-cuisiner-nourrir avec la peau des doigts, utilité de plantes abondantes, considérées mauvaises herbes "weeds" ou envahissantes. Ce nom "weeds" vient de l'agriculture, une activité de control de culture, qui n'aime pas travailler avec les plantes naturelle et les considèrent sauvages car elles ne peuvent pas être contrôlée. Elles s'autogèrent. "skinabsorbingeating" freshly harvested, recycling - tapping into abundance

Companions and Transformations 2012

at the Wundergarden, Fluxmedia (art and science research) Concordia University, in collaboration with InTerreArt, Certex and Action Communiterre (seed donation) - Wundergarden is a hybrid gallery + living laboratory for artistic inquiry into the vegetal and the life sciences. Companions and Transformations is art as art research that combines new ways of seeing urban agriculture with rewilding and recycling of unusable used clothing from Certex (that would otherwise go to landfills), integration of wild (natural) plants that are draught resistent with cultivated naturally draught resistant crops (edible plants), no gmo that release bt toxin pesticide such as used in monoculture cornfield industrial agriculture

Nicole Fournier titles, origins, art blurb

Titles: Interdisciplinary, Visual, Conceptual & Performance Artist, Curator, Director and co-founder of InTerreArt, Environmentalist, Herbalist, Activist, Researcher, Polyagriculturalist (permaculture principles), Feminist, Urban Forager of wild edibles and medicinal plants

Origins: née et vie à Montréal, Québec, Canada.

racines : Québec (Canada), Caraïbe (Trinidad, Antigua, St-Kitts), Europe (France, Italie, Allemangne), Écosse, Angleterre. / born and lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

roots: Quebec (Canada), West-Indies (Trinidad, Antigua, St-Kitts), Europe France, Italy, Germany), Scotland, England.

Art blurb: Nicole Fournier's art practice addresses ecological activities between the personal, social, organizational, systemic and political; between nature, wilderness and culture, body and gender, controlled & wild behavior in "LifeArt".

Archive of the performative : ephemeral living art (don't like the word "object" (since 1996)

Title : 1996 - 2000 "Learning hair ball language, without words, in school" is about the symbol of the hairballs and using carpenter construction glue to apply them. the glued to exercise book hairballs are evidence of the furtive action of collecting and rolling stands of hair that fell from my scalp, on pillows, floor, or brushed out from my hands. Then taking this hair and rolling it between my fingers in a it's knotted interconnected hair ball and applying them to the pages of the exercise book as an alternative to writing. Situated within the idea of abjection in art and critical theory and feminist art practice - "Julia Kristeva developed the idea of the abject as that which is rejected by/disturbs social reason - the communal consensus that underpins a social order.[4] The "abject" exists accordingly somewhere between the concept of an object and the concept of the subject, representing taboo elements of the self barely separated off in a liminal space.[5]" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjection)