Programming

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For its fourth edition, VIVA! Art Action punctuates the cultural calendar with a week of events that unite the practices of over twenty artists from Montreal and abroad. Characteristically gregarious, the event promises structured, informal and spontaneous occasions to discover and celebrate the diversity of contemporary action art practices, which include – but are not limited to – performance, public intervention, social practices, and furtive actions.

DARE-DARE SELECTION

Marlène Renaud B. (QUÉBEC)
http://vivamontreal.org/artists/marlene-renaud-b-qc/

Jean-Baptiste Farkas (FRANCE)
http://vivamontreal.org/artists/jean-baptiste-farkas-fra/

Claude Wittmann (CANADA/SUISSE)
http://vivamontreal.org/artists/claude-wittmann-on/

Jean-Baptiste Farkas (France) defines himself as a service-provider artist. Under various titles organized in a collection, he has devised "instructions for use" that maintain a close relationship with disturbance, vandalism and detour to generate action in the real world. These protocols for collective or individual action are so many "rituals" whose vocation is not to produce an object, but rather to generate a state, or a shift in perception of the world. Grating, often imperceptible, these actions challenge our habits as much as our relationship to objects.

Marlène Renaud-B. (Québec) is a visual artist living and working in Montreal. Strongly influenced by the perceptive phenomena of everyday experience, she explores the porosity of the individual to his or her context, playing with limits, boundaries, displacement, dissonance and heterogeneity. Installations, performances, sound experiments, sculptures and videos come together in a space constantly under tension, thanks to a low-tech, precarious aesthetic that exacerbates corporality. The work seems to be in perpetual construction, highlighting an in-between state between abstraction and materialization, between the constant formation of meaning and concretization. The sound dimension is grafted onto it in a performative manner, evoking an action, superimposing a temporality, a place, recounting a state of presence.

Claude Wittmann (Canada/Switzerland)