Performance presented by the CIAC MTL at Cabaret Vol de nuit, 14 Prince-Arthur East Street, Montreal, August 10th 2019, 4:00 pm.
Art as an act: it’s in this mindset – to decolonize and change the world by using First Nation art as a form of action – that Guy Sioui Durand comes to create, in duet with the PekuakamInuatsh artist Soleil Launière, a performative harangue called Entre chair et corps: rites de passages.
Photos © Guy L’Heureux
This lecture-performance, this performative harangue, took place in three temporalities gradually merging: the audible breath of orality, or the general statements on free uses, taboos and customary sexual tolerance among Iroquoians; art from the mouth, or the dominion of dreams, saliva, tongue, teeth and other interference; then, the voice by which one finds their way, or the Two-Spirit experiment as a passage from thought to action between flesh and intimate, private and public bodies.
