© Marcella França, 2022.
As part of the 8th edition of Montréal Monochrome, multidisciplinary artist Marcella França presents Becoming Water.
Becoming Water is the result of 15 years of research by multidisciplinary artist Marcella França, dedicated to the relationship between science and Buddhist philosophy in which she explores the physical-chemical aspects of water, correlating them with issues such as fluidity, impermanence, time and memory.
This workshop/performance offers an immersion into the water cycle through somatic dance improvisation and guided meditation techniques, to promote the state of flow, challenge our experience of linear time, and explore the potential of our intrinsic relationship with water. In addition to the personal experience of each participant, this workshop will become a collective multimedia performance by projecting images of water onto moving bodies. The call is open to all, you do not need to have a dance technique. The artist also invites you to wear white or light colored clothing, so that your body can better dialogue with the projections.
After the workshop/performance experience, the artist will lead a roundtable discussion about the experience, both from the perspective of those who attended and those who participated. The agenda will cover issues such as time, decolonization of movement and bodies, memory, ecological consciousness and volatility.
Considering the increase in COVID 19 and flu transmissions, please note that masks must be worn for the duration of the events. Limited number of seats, reserve your place now!
© kimura byol, 2022
© Marcella França, 2022.
Marcella França is a Brazilian contemporary artist and performer based in Longueuil, QC. Originally trained as a dancer, painter and video artist, França holds a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication specializing in audiovisual and experiential projects. Her artistic practice uses a multidisciplinary approach to create powerfully evocative, immersive and experiential art that explores human physicality, its relationship with time, space and the intangible.
With a practice of over fifteen years of experience in hybrid languages blending contemporary dance, digital technologies and visual art, França expands the conventions of art to create public art, performance, video art and immersive installations that explore the relationship between nature, feminist issues, existential, political and ecological contemporary questions.
Marcella França's works speak specifically to the awakening to the power of life in constant motion, the body and nature and the cycles of life, through her artistic research that involves science and Buddhist philosophy.
The element water is the main basis of França's artistic research. She explores the physical-chemical aspects of water, such as fluidity, volatility, materiality versus immateriality, and correlates them with philosophical concepts such as impermanence, memory, intertwining them with ideas on decolonial issues, ancestrality, ecofeminism and immigration. Eco-feminist issues such as global warming, forest fires, misogyny, and the relationship between the exploration of the female body and the Earth in patriarchal society have been a major focus of her most recent artistic productions.
She has exhibited in major festivals such as Art Souterrain (MTL), SATFEST 2021 (MTL), Montréal en Lumière (MTL), +Performance (RJ, BR), Optica Festival (ES/FR), MAPP MTL, and Amazonia MAPP (BR).
Montreal Monochrome is an annual conference organized by articule’s Fabulous Committee (anti-oppression). It aims to address the mis- and under-representation and systemic oppression of marginalized groups in Montréal’s contemporary art milieu. The conference works toward imagining and nurturing new and existing bonds, solidarities and friendships between Indigenous artists, thinkers and cultural workers and their racialized allies.
As a project of the Fabulous Committee, this year the Short Term Programming Committee is joining the efforts of the Fabulous Committee to combine the annual conference with a window exhibition and a Special Project. Both proposals are an invitation to think about the new gallery space in terms of multiple notions of time.
Given that accessibility is contextual, varied and dynamic, if any aspect of our programming is inaccessible to you now or in the future, please let us know. We are happy to discuss and provide an alternative.
articule is located in a ground floor commercial building in Villeray neighbourhood. There are no stairs at the gallery, and to enter, the front door has a slope (light inclination). There is one glass door to get into the gallery. A staff member can assist you with the door.
Accessibility contact: Aziza Nassih - outreach@articule.org