Research in artworks: Performance art

Performance art, Temporary, Exterior, Business, Event, Random, Nulle part/Ailleurs, Plastic

100 idées en l'air

Marie-Suzanne, 100 idées en l'air, 2000. © Guy L'Heureux
The artist climbed onto the rooftops from where she launched one hundred bags filled with helium, from which a text was suspended. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Désilets, Marie-Suzanne
Installation year: 
2000
Performance art, Temporary, Teaching and research, Event, Random, Symposium Public Art , Paper

Back Pain: An On-going Life Process

Action art based on a mail art activity. Five models of postcards were distributed in Montreal, Val-David and other places. A black & white photograph representing the artist's two children, [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Neumark, Devora
Installation year: 
1999
Performance art, Temporary, Symposium, Random, Symposium international de création in situ H2O Ma Terre, Fibre

Être

Large fluorescent orange fabric letters form the word "Être"  ("Being") and are set in a frame installed on a boat piloted by the artist. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Labrecque, Manon
Installation year: 
2002
Performance art, Temporary, Interior, Culture, Event, Random, Making a Book : Fragmentary Evidence, Paper

Fragmentary Evidence

Looking back at history as official interpretation of facts, and in this context, the power of institutions, the artist created three hundred artistic books that she presented at the reading room of t [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Neumark, Devora
Installation year: 
1993
Performance art, Temporary, Culture, Event, Random, Paper

Marked Like Some Pages in a Book

Devora Neumark, Marked Like Some Pages in a Book, 1997. © Marie-Orphée Duval
The artist inserted 10,000 bookmarks in various books where the text captured her attention. They were distributed randomly, in public and private libraries, bookstores, etc.. The intervention was ini [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Neumark, Devora
Installation year: 
1997
Performance art, Temporary, Interior, Event, Random, Sur l’expérience de la ville : intervention en milieu urbain, Woven fabric

Sewing

Lorraine Oades, Sewing, 1997Lorraine Oades, Sewing, 1997
Every day, the artist embroidered on a piece of cloth a significant sentence from one of the 32 chapters of the French and English versions of the novel Bonheur d'occasion by Gabrielle Roy. After [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Oades, Lorraine
Installation year: 
1997