Christine Brault

CHRISTINE BRAULT (Canada)

ARTIST STATEMENT

For many years, my artistic explorations have converged into performance art and relational aesthetics involving actions and site specific works. Regardless of whether the work is material or immaterial, it remains important for me to conceive a piece or an action, which is integrated with its environment, which places its occupants amidst the work itself. Neither reflects or re-appropriation, I create actions as poems inspired by encounters, people and contexts, here and elsewhere thus evolving into personal or collective stories.

TITLE OF THE PROPOSAL: Latina del Norte

DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT

From North to South, using natural elements such as ice, sand and water, I wish to explore landmark stereotypes not only related to the notion of habitat but to identity. Through this performative action, on a durational basis, I intend to grate ice in an outdoor setting, a public space to try to desperately build a home reminder (snow-house, snow-path). Then, using what melts from the reference building up but obviously ruining itself with the heat, I will write with my hair in melted ice-water directly on the soil in order to connect, ingest and comprehend diverse identities and their confluences.

As I travel from West to East, from North to South, through these explorations, I intend to create some sort of performative dialogue in hope to establish a ritual linked to earth, human beings, their languages, their transformations, their possibles.