Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation 2011-2012



Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation




Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation 2011-2012 was a limited time 

1 year experiment that I am hoping to continue one day



Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation, october 2011. maple leaves, fungi (tar spots), colsfoot leaves, solomen seal, garlic, burning bush leaves, pear and cherry tree leaves..... and more ... in varying stages of decomposition that cause a binding effect, stages before living plant matter becomes compost.

(edited on August 14th, 2014) 


This was a limited time 1 year experiment between 2011-2012, that I had to stop, due to lack of funds, time and space. I call it "the decomposing-binding performance assembled (assemblage) paper experimentation" (a new string of words I have put together on August 14th, 2014) These artwork are evolving unpredictable possibly ephemeral or permanent, and are made by weathering, decomposition and assembled with my bare hands, and are not made like traditional hand made paper.


The decomposing-binding as a composing, assembling, collaborative making process with a biodiversity of plants in various stages of decomposition..... Both processes are art, research, activism - performance with the decomposing-binding as a precurser experimentation form of paper making based in letting normal weather changes (rain, wind, hot, cold changes) effect the transformation of plants, to then assemble (assemblage) in making what looks like paper. It could be considered a form of paper making with the natural transformation of vegetation, where the bacteria, fungi decomposers are the chemical transformers, not heat, not synthetic chemicals, but natural invisible factors, like microorganisms, in the air, water and plants, decomposers who are always with us. The result is in a residu that follow, for me, in the tradition of abstract art, (influenced by the teaching of Guido Molinari blindfold paintings (or painting in the dark). They could be coined as well abstract performative creation with living matter that could look like brown beige, green and other fading colors, paper. I touch, move, feel, smell, as the conceiver, initiator of putting living decomposing matter together for a decomposing-binding. co-creative performances a rich diversity of nutricious-medicinal plants, throughout all the seasons, including the winter edible berries (seen only as ornamental hedges), harvesting, foraging, from my front and backyard, and surrounding urban and suburban neighborhoods.



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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.