Soleil Launière

A member of the First Nation of Pekuakamiulnuatsh, originally from Mashteuiatsh, Soleil Launière now lives and works in Tiöhtià:ke (Montréal). A multidisciplinary artist proficient in voice, movement and theater in addition to performance art, Launière has created over 30 different performances as part of both native and non-native gatherings and artistic events. She intertwines the presence of the Two-Spirit body and the experimental audio-visual while being inspired by the cosmogony and the sacred spirit of the animals of the Innu world. She expresses in action a thought about the silence and the languages that make action art evolve, not only for the people of the First Nations but in an universal way.
 

THE TWO-SPIRITS OF THE FIRST NATIONS

PERFORMANCE

► GUY SIOUI-DURAND and SOLEIL LAUNIÈRE — Entre chair et corps: rites de passages

CURATOR AND PROJECT INITIATOR

CLAUDE GOSSELIN, C.M. (c.v.)
Founder – General and Artistic Director
Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal
claude.gosselin@ciac.ca

ASSOCIATE CURATOR

ANDRÉ DUDEMAINE
Founder – Director of Cultural Activities
Festival Présence autochtone, Montreal

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