Performances - March and September 2009, with ideas of challenging who is performing with a human performer.... other than the human body

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).











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

Live Dining 2005- 2015

Corn Field Performances 2002

Verticale - centre d'artistes présente :

Verticale - centre d'artistes présente :
Nicole Fournier et Doug Scholes, un projet de commissariat du collecif N.& M.

Table de Biodiversité : Verdir - Nourrir 2012

À Place Benoît - Les Ateliers Performance ACE (Art-Communautés-Environnement) 2011-2012

À Place Benoît - Les Ateliers Performance ACE (Art-Communautés-Environnement) 2011-2012
Projet EN PARTENARIAT AVEC Le Centre Communautaire Bon Courage (CCBC)

Nourriture et médecine vivantes 2010

Nourriture et médecine vivantes 2010
photo de Johanne Chagnon

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

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....

Couvert sur Place, Québec, 2009

Couvert sur Place, Québec, 2009
collective participatory performance presented by Engrenage Noir LEVIER. Le 14 mai à Québec, devant l’Assemblée nationale, organisé par Le Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté, Campagne Mission Collective" Bâtir un Québec sans pauvreté

Organic Container 1996-1999

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.