The human body performs invisible daily work, as a collective of cellular communities, in maintaining the human body that we call an individual. Microorganisms invade or do not invade, depending on the integrity of the cellular walls, of different cellular communities. The integrity of cell walls is affected by internal and external factors, in particular environmental factors, that strenghthen or weaken the walls, from pollutants and what the body injests - food that comes from the environment, the soil and plants, how the food is grown, that nourish us or do not nourish us (depending on the food and the way it is transformed). Psychological states related to personal and social relationships, affect human health and therefore the ability to maintain healthy cell walls........such are some of the interconnections described in InTerconnected Performers thematic. text by Nicole Fournier
"Couvert sur Place - Le Louvre"
performance by Nicole Fournier
photo Marianne Dessis
"Couvert sur Place - Le Louvre" (Place Cover Setting - Le Louvre) - intervention performance in Paris, France
Title: "Couvert sur Place - Le Louvre" (Place Cover Setting - Le Louvre)
Action: intervention performance by Nicole Fournier
Art direction of photography: Nicole Fournier
Photos: Marianne Dessis et Nicole Fournier
Place: at the Cour Napoléon du Louvre, Paris, France
Time: 3pm, Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Place where block of clay like soil in plate, came from: 5-10m away from Pont des Arts
Idea of challenging who is performing with a human performer.... other than the human body
Ideas of Interconnected Performers thematic include example of human feet touching soil in plate in Couvert sur Place concept - an adaptive performance for individual and collective performances, and the performance of plant seeding itself in the cedar root - Performance plant action: finding soil within a decomposing root; decomposing root action (microorganisms working together to decompose the root, forming soil inside, to nourrish the seed that allowed the cosmos to grow).
photos by Nicole Fournier
In September 2009
photo by Nicole Fournier
"Couvert sur Place - Le Louvre"
performance by Nicole Fournier
photo Marianne Dessis
"Couvert sur Place - Le Louvre" (Place Cover Setting - Le Louvre) - intervention performance in Paris, France
Title: "Couvert sur Place - Le Louvre" (Place Cover Setting - Le Louvre)
Action: intervention performance by Nicole Fournier
Art direction of photography: Nicole Fournier
Photos: Marianne Dessis et Nicole Fournier
Place: at the Cour Napoléon du Louvre, Paris, France
Time: 3pm, Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Place where block of clay like soil in plate, came from: 5-10m away from Pont des Arts
Idea of challenging who is performing with a human performer.... other than the human body
Ideas of Interconnected Performers thematic include example of human feet touching soil in plate in Couvert sur Place concept - an adaptive performance for individual and collective performances, and the performance of plant seeding itself in the cedar root - Performance plant action: finding soil within a decomposing root; decomposing root action (microorganisms working together to decompose the root, forming soil inside, to nourrish the seed that allowed the cosmos to grow).
Cedar root, with cosmos flower that seeded itself in the root and grew over the summer of 2009 (see more images of root-cosmos below)
carried during performance by Nicole Fournier, in September 2009
In July 2009 (in the beginning the cosmos began to grow)
photos by Nicole Fournier
In September 2009
photo by Nicole Fournier