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

Making herbal medicine - with Rudbeckia triloba and nettle (ortie)

from backyard live dining 2009, Catherine and Anne-Marie Lanza and Nicole Fournier dug up Rudbeckia triloba or brown eyed susan flower, for her roots (used like echinacea), read more on the live dining blog

Monica Giacomin joined them, bringing nettle from her backyard, Catherine Lanza had also harvested nettle from Mont Royal. Catherine made tincture with the nettle and kept some of the fresh nettle to dry for infusion (herbal tea). Nettle is good for the endocrine system, and more.

Monica Giacomin's website for more info on herbalism http://herbsontheside.com/

Anne-Marie Lanza digging up the rudbeckia triloba for the roots

the nettle tinctured and fresh and the cutting up of the rudbeckia triloba root. all happening in the sunshine in the drive-way near the street.

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)