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Adriana Disman

Didier Morelli

VIVA ! ART ACTION 2017

PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL /
OCTOBER 4 - 7, 2017
LES ATELIERS JEAN-BRILLANT
(661 ROSE DE LIMA, MONTRÉAL)

ARTISTS PRESENTED BY CLARK :
ADRIANA DISMAN /
DIDIER MORELLI / 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 8PM

Happening from the 4th to the 7th of October at Les Ateliers Jean Brillant, the 2017 edition of VIVA! Art Action promises to deliver an effervescent program of performances, public interventions, and participative actions. Nine partners join VIVA! to realize a memorable sixth edition of the biennial event, which will showcases 20 artists and a number of off-site projects that offer unique encounters in unexpected settings. Committed to keeping action art accessible to all audiences, all events presented as part of VIVA! are free to attend.
 

The artists participating in the sixth edition:

John G. Boehme (BC)
Ianna Book (QC)
kimura byol-nathalie lemoine (QC)
Sarah Chouinard-Poirier (QC)
Roberto de la Torre (MEX)
Adriana Disman (QC)
Andreja Dugandžić (BIH)
keyon gaskin (USA)
Steve Giasson (QC)
Nadia Granados (COL)
Johanna Householder (ON)
Ursula Johnson (Mi’kmaw/NS)
Mathieu Lacroix (QC)
Catherine Lavoie-Marcus (QC)
Hélène Lefebvre (ON)
Didier Morelli (USA)
François Morelli (QC)
JP Mot (QC/USA)
Sandrine Schaefer (USA)
Adrian Stimson (Siksika/AB)
Mégane Voghell (QC)
Sonja Zlatanova (MKD/QC)
Isil Sol Vil x Marina Barsy Janer (PRI & ESP)

Prior to the opening of our headquarters, join us October 3rd at 6pm to kick-off VIVA! 2017 with the double launch of More Caught in the Act and The 7th Sense at Artexte. Occurring in the presence of a number of the publications’ artists, authors and editors, the event will be the occasion to celebrate two recently published major books that address both the local and national performance art scene.

From the 4th to 7th of October, VIVA! will present four programs of action taking place in and around its headquarters. From Montreal to Spain, through South America, the United States, Canada, and as far as Bosnia and Herzegovina, the artists of the sixth edition of VIVA! will share incisive actions, both delicate and deafening. In addition to the central program of performances, several actions will take place on the margins of the festival's official dates and venue. Whether they call for collaboration, wandering, or alert sensory perception, the actions deployed in continuance, repetition, or spontaneity will not fail to captivate both the initiated and the curious. As demonstrated through our selection of artists, VIVA! supports and encourages the hybridization of forms, the development of risk-taking practices, and bold collaborations.  

Privileging direct encounters between artists and the public, each performance evening will be preceded by a convivial and affordable meal cooked by the artists-in-residence Sonja Zlatanova & Andreja Dugandžić. At the heart of VIVA! since its creation, the VIVA! kitchen's first collaborative project will generate performative actions that will punctuate the festival throughout the week. Starting at 6:30pm every night, join us to take part in carefully crafted moments that can only be experienced during communal meals, which are offered in classic or vegetarian versions.

 

Covering the festival’s activities from an uncanny perspective, Mégane Voghell & kimura byol-nathalie lemoine, will provide unique documentary, performative and poetic content that will feed the festival's blog and Instagram platforms. Don’t miss out, the sixth edition of VIVA! will be memorable!

 

For this edition of VIVA! Art Action, CLARK is proud to present performances by Adriana Disman and Didier Morelli !

ADRIANA DISMAN
(Ontario / Québec)

Adriana Disman is a performance art maker, thinker, and organizer born in Toronto in 1989. Since 2010, she has presented in numerous festivals and galleries across Canada, the United States, Europe, and India. Her practice searches for minor modes of resistance as she seeks liberation—an interdependent and as yet un-imagined state—through refusing to adhere to the logics of power. Often of long duration, her work is minimal, poetic, and intense. She often works with self-wounding as a way of invoking bodily autonomy. Her experiences of being a Czech-Iraqi queer woman and a settler on this land inflect her work. Disman founded and currently runs the Research Centre for Performance Art out of her apartment in Montréal. She also ran LINK & PIN Performance Art Series, RATS9 Gallery, and The School of Making Thinking, as well as directing the 2016 Morni Hill Performance Biennale in northern India. Her writing on performance art, which has been published in both academic and arts contexts, can be found on her website.

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DIDIER MORELLI
(Québec / États-Unis)

Born and raised in Quebec, Didier Morelli is currently based in New York. Combining practice and research through actions and analysis, he focuses on the relationship between performance and the regular flow of the built and natural environment. Exploring the potential for gesture and corporeal engagement to engender new spatial-subjectivities, he develops actions that trouble economies of movement dictating the circulation and behavior of bodies in particular contexts. Morelli has performed at the Performance Arcade in Wellington, New Zealand (2013); 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto (2014); the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Chicago (2016); and most recently at the Buenos Aires Performance Biennale in Argentina (2017). A PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago, Morelli’s research investigates the relationship between the artist’s body and the infrastructure of the city in Los Angeles and New York City between 1970 and 1985.

ABOUT VIVA! –

Initiated by Patrick Lacasse and Alexis Bellavance, VIVA! Art Action was created in 2006 by six artists centers in the Montreal region as a collaborative platform dedicated to supporting and promoting the emergence of art action in its most avant-garde, sharp and surprising forms. Today, VIVA! is the result of a collaboration between nine programming partners, including articule, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Le Centre Clark, DARE-DARE, le Centre des arts actuels Skol, Verticale – centre d’artistes, OBORO, Artexte and Studio 303.

Celebrating its sixth edition in the fall of 2017, VIVA! is now recognized both locally and internationally for its innovative structure, friendly atmosphere and professional support of artistic risk-taking. The accessibility and inclusiveness that characterize VIVA! provide a rare opportunity for the public to discover, share and celebrate the exceptional work of local and international artists working with art action, the most vibrant of visual arts discipline!

VIVA! Art Action is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the Bureau des festivals et des événements culturels de la ville de Montréal.