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3.10.12

Le 7 octobre 2012 "Vert comestible : avec la peau des doigts"

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Nicole Fournier in the publication "To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet"

Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation

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.

Decomposing-binding performance assembled hand made paper experimentation

(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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Vision de Nicole McDonald-Fournier (Nicole Fournier) et d'InTerreArt

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. La liste des inspiration Québécois en art contemporain et environment, à venir.

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. Québécois contemporary inspiration and colleagues coming soon!

“PERFORMANCE ABSORBING-EATING WITH THE SKIN OF MY FINGERTIPS”

Concept or action?
Action of random outcomes of color creating abstraction
Through improvised plant-skin action.
Concept and action of researching, rethinking the idea of eating, absorption, exchange between myself and the environment, through my skin, in relation to other species.

The Performance of skin absorbing-eating, ecologically, a rich nutritious-medicinal biodiversity of urban-suburban existing plants (the environment)

the intimacy of eating

the intimacy of touching

fragile performances in interconnectedness

The Performance of decomposing-binding processes, as I touch, as my skin touches plants transforming, the second they are ripe to harvest, the season of autom, continual transformation and decomposition for health....

Color, beyond color and beyond the appearance of color - what we see hides how it came to be.

Random, it is the plant that decides
what color is produced and the look of the drawing.
I do not control. Improvised action. The outcome of color is unknown to me.

The processes comes from plants and minerals we eat....

The beauty of urban nature trying to survive between the cracks - may we see it, respect it and let it nourrish us.... agriculture could not have existed without it...

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skin absorbing-eating / decomposing-binding performances-drawing, abstraction by Nicole Fournier

Skin, touch, ... the surface of an organisms that breathes, absorbs, protects, exchanges, intakes ... absorption through the skin is another form of eating. The absorption is slow, minute, and might remain in the skin, before it travels to other parts of the body. The micro-politics of biological exchange between me and food, plants, microorganisms (other species), in the environment, is part of my art, performance, drawing, research.

Skin, touch, ... the surface of an organisms that breathes, absorbs, protects, exchanges, intakes ... absorption through the skin is another form of eating. When we eat, we consume plant matter, living matter, minerals, particles, and we consume toxins, natural and synthetic (human made). Eating is taking in, exchanging with the environment. When we eat with our mouth, the absorbers, transformers into nutrients, chemicals, molecules, building barriers, filters and protectors, are the processes that take place by our internal tubes and internal organs (throat, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, pancreas, brain, nervous system, endocrine and lymphatic system (which rid our body of toxins, through exercise, etc). All our internal organs, are communities of cells. Our body is a collective of a diversity of communities of cells - blood cells, nerve cells, skin cells, that make up our organs and work together, to make us, as we exchange with the environment and other species, constantly.

But the skin is our surface, first organ that comes in contact with the environment, for all species, and it absorbs. Of course it does, as it gets burned by chemicals or even hot spices, or plants,...... it reacts,...... it is like a sponge, with a filter,....... so it eats.

Nature becomes invisible and gets labelled Natural Resources Canada.

Natural Resources Canada and me, my skin, touching absorbing-eating environment, every second, every time I touch, something.

With this work, I am absorbing-eating with the skin of my fingertips, in a process which is a performances between me and a plant, a diversity of nutritious plants, that co-create with me, resulting in a drawing, a series of drawings made with living, edible, medicinal species of plants.

Drawing is the result of the performance process between me, my finger tips squishing, pressing, touching, holding, a part of a plant, its’ leaf, seed, flower petal, whole flower, and the juice of its life, that flows out of it, into my skin, onto the paper. It is the moment just after harvest, just before it falls to the ground, into the soil, dying back into the earth, nourrishing the soil, or me. Yes eating with the skin of my fingertips, a plant at the end of its cycle of life, at the time of harvest.

Drawing is the assembling of plant material in various stages of decomposition. Similar to paper making, or the discipline of Fibre arts, but here the microorganisms in the decomposition process are co-performing with me, as part of making the edible, non-edible, medicinal, non-medicinal drawing or assemblage, made by and with the plants. It is a decomposing-binding performance, where the decomposition process binds the plants. There is no paper in these drawings, the drawing is the paper and the paper is the drawing. I place, touch the wet decomposing LIVING MATTER.

The art research and creation is researching the concept and actual process of creating WITH living matter, as opposed to simply “using” inert or seemingly dead matter (art materials), without knowing their manufacturing or industrial origins.

The work is the process as creation and research of the concept of performance between me and a diversity of plants and microorganisms, the life between us.

I have over 15 years of experience on the edible and medicinal properties of wild and cultivated plants, which also inform this research.

Reconnection to Nature and researching our relationship with living matter, which is already growing in abundance, in urban and suburban neighbourhoods, in our front and back yards and parks. I say abundance, as while we see all or most urban nature as ornamental (trees, hedges, gardens and weeds), all are edible and medicinal, and each season so much of this abundance simply goes to waste, people put it in their garbage, or the rare few make compost with it. And if we are aware of it’s food and medicinal possibilities, we fear that it will be destroyed if we take harvests from these plants. We dont see that we are creating waste by not embracing it’s abundance for our own health.

We could harvest ecologically from what already exists, be it ornamentals or wild plants, that are medicinal and edible, and their abundance would still return in the spring. The research involves the artistic process of, reconnecting to and being aware of the biodiversity of life around us, and not fearing it, such as fungi, mold, soil and plants, as it is directly interconnected to the essential of growing healthy food and medicine.

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