Re-Reflecting On…
- Nadège GREBMEIER-FORGET
Re-Reflecting On… – Nadège Grebmeier Forget
The table is a layered space. Underneath, processes unfold. Duration is stretched out, irreversible, despite repetition that is not a repetition, not a recurrence of the same. This repetition is the difference produced through acts of mutation. Performative improvisation brings into acthood the occurrence of unforeseeable events, transforming obsessively homing cells, inhabited anew by the living-dead nature of gestures and objects on the table-horizon. Underneath, the body-horizon goes out of focus. A cake-mouth chews up the boundary between subject and object. The melon-orifice dilates, offers itself up to be penetrated on the threshold of being coming into being. Heterogeneity bubbles up around it. The pile gleams, reflecting the potentiality of coming between. Pumps exhale the Pneuma of the multiverse. This multiverse.
On the screen, she appears to be hidden. The setup partially reveals the invisible, but above all amplifies ungraspability: her body, the mediation-transformed objects. Despite ostensible accessibility, we see video-mutated origins for what they are: already inaccessible Others. Looking hopes for a space of encounter, but this space is already filled with distancing. Far-off horizons approach in an infinite curvature of gleaming and dripping bodies. Held down by gravity, they crawl and slither over surfaces, welcoming contingency into the space between their secret offspring and the discharging and projecting entities they have become in the spawning.
Alexandre St-Onge
Nadège Grebmeier Forget is active in the Montreal artistic community, both in visual and performance-based art practices. Since 2009, as a visual artist, performance artist or curator, she has organized and participated in numerous events, festivals, conferences, residencies and exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Europe. She has worked on several selection and consultation committees and is currently vice-president of Centre CLARK’s board of administration and a member of Galerie de l’UQAM’s management committee. Her most recent works have been performed and/or exhibited at the Musée régional de Rimouski, the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, VU Centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie, She Works Flexible Gallery (Houston, Texas), the Sophiensale theatre (Berlin), the HOLD-FAST festival of Eastern Edge Gallery (Newfoundland), the Centre d’art Mains d’Œuvres (Paris) and at Friche de la Belle de Mai (Marseille).
Alexandre St-Onge is an audio artist, musician/improviser (bass, voice and electronics) and sonic performer. With a PhD in art (UQAM, 2015), he is fascinated by creativity as a pragmatic approach to the ungraspable. He has released over ten solo albums such as VUEIEN (Errant Bodies Press), Semblances (Avatar), viorupeeeeihean (Oral), Entités (Oral) and Kasi Naigo (squintfuckerpress), amongst others. He founded squintfuckerpress with Christof Migone and he plays in several bands which released multiple albums : Et Sans, K.A.N.T.N.A.G.A.N.O., Klaxon Gueule, Pink Saliva, mineminemine, Shalabi Effect, Les esprits frappeurs and undo. As a composer Alexandre St-Onge has worked for the interdisciplinary company Kondition Pluriel, as well as artists such as Marie Brassard, Karine Denault, Lynda Gaudreau, Line Nault, Jérémie Niel, Maryse Poulin and Mariko Tanabe.
