An international
and
Atypical Meeting
of
Practical Performances
by
4 Practitioners
Saturday November 1st
6PM $10
Nicole Peyrafitte
Pierre Joris
BIOS
Valentine Verhaeghe:
Based on a plastic conception of movement, her works take multiple
shapes, inscribing the possibilities of an aesthetics of everyday
life into forms she calls "chorépoetics." They come
to life as performances, poetic texts, artists' books, electronic
images… Called a "Space adventuress" by the Paris
daily Le Monde, she produces a range of outstanding propositions incarnated
in dance performances based on sensation and linking. The philosopher
Louis Ucciani has written about her: "In her propositions she
displays an audacious and ec-centric attitude, with the poet's blissful
smile that disrupts the habitual settings and plays havoc with propriety."
Valentine experiments with new concepts; she integrates the idea of
context into all her propositions and combines space and energy in
atypical encounters, extensively collaborating in her new creations
with other artists.
Michel
Collet:
Poet and performance artist. Starting from gesture and voice, Michel
Collet, has undertaken for some years now a poetic construction liminal
to a series of inseparable practices that include theoretical research,
walking, publishing, and performance work. Specialist of everyday life,
he nevertheless pursues the construction of Vo Vox, a disparate ensemble
composed of assemblages and connections, among them Le poème
intermédiaire, and L'homme qui marche, as well as a network of
sound pieces, such as La Communion des saints (Editions Erratum), a
work for one voice, that of litany; and twelve sequences that meet each
other in the murmur of the diction of the Name. Founder of the Charles
Fourier Utomobile Club, Michel Collet works in close association with
the Montagne Froide / Cold Mountain collective.
Collet has been invited by numerous festivals in France, Poland, Italy,
Spain, Canada and the USA, to lecture and stage performance and actions,
among them, Time Shadows Festival, Brooklyn NY USA, 2005 Harta Festival
(Monza), 2004 Docks Akenaton, (Ajaccio), 2003, Festival Le Lieu (Québec)
as well as Ebent (Barcelona), Polyphonix (Paris), Revue Parlée
(Centre G Pompidou Paris) Espace Donguy, Galerie Vincy, (Paris), Wizia
(Pologne) Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (France) Galerie C.
Hertz (Bremen) Moltkerei (Köln), and The Emily Harvey Foundation
(NY).
Pierre
Joris is a poet, translator, essayist & anthologist. He
has published over forty books, most recently Aljibar II (poems, a bilingual
edition with French translations by Eric Sarner) and Justifying the
Margins: Essays 1990-2006 (SALT Publishing, forthcoming fall 08). His
2007 publications include the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken,
oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; & Mitch Elrod, guitar)
issued by Ta'wil Productions; Aljibar and Meditations on
the Stations of Mansour Al-Hallaj 1-21. Recent translations include
Paul Celan: Selections, and Lightduress by Paul Celan, which received
the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited
the award-winning anthologies Poems for the Millennium (volumes I &
II) and most recently, Pablo Picasso, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
& Other Poems. He often performs with Nicole Peyrafitte. Check out
his website & his Nomadics blog.
Pyrenean-born Nicole
Peyrafitte is a performance artist who sings, paint, films,
writes & cooks. She draws on her eclectic heritage to perform
songs ranging from French cabaret to jazz standards and contemporary
poetry. Her voice work is often integrated into multimedia stagings
based on her visuals (paintings and/or videos) and writings. Her multimedia
performances projects often involve the onstage preparation and cooking
of a dish, shared with the audience. Her work addresses the experiences
of negotiating her identity across two continents and four languages.
This past July she was a feature performer at the festival "Voix
de la Méditerranée" in Lodève, France. She
also performed her documentary performance on Augustus Saint Gaudens
in Bagnères de Luchon . for more info check: http://www.nicolepeyrafitte.com http://www.myspace.com/nicolepeyrafitte
