Live Dining updates 2009 - PLANT WALK

PLANT WALK with Nicole Fournier and Monica Giacomin October 16th, 2009, 2:30pm MUCS

MUCS - Montreal Urban Community Sustainment http://www.mucs.ca/

Date: Friday October 16th, 2009
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Meet at MUCS at 2:30pm, then we will walk throughout NDG and Westmount, towards Marianopolis CEGEP
Instructors: Nicole Fournier, Monica Giacomin
Wild native edible and medicinal plant identification
Which parts of plants to harvest when
Uses: eating raw, cooking, fermenting into wines & vinegars, tinctures, infusions etc
Meditative exploration

http://www.montrealpermaculture.org/index.php/Fall_semester

see more Live Dining update on the live dining blog
http://livedining.blogspot.com/
backyard Live Dining 2009, making herbal medicine, and check out archives from this summer.

INDUSTRIAL PARK LIVE DINING 2009 - update

22 avril Jour de la Terre/ 22nd of April Earth Day

Action Collective / Collective Action

Inclus les personnes suivantes / included the following people

Ann Bertrand - Skol
Marie-Michelle Deschamps - Circa
Louise Dubreuil - articule
Nicole Fournier - InTerreArt articule
Jérome Havre - articule
Onya Hogan-Finlay - La Centrale
Riaz Mehmood - articule
Yann Pocreau - Centre Clark
Dagmara Stephan - Optica
Lysanne Thibodeau - articule
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à venir d'autres images de / more images to come from: Dare-Dare, Clark, La Centrale, Diagonale et Dazibao

articule - plantation et ensemencement devant articule / planting and sowing in front of articule,

articule affiche Défi Habitat - Pollinisateurs Fedération Canadienne de la Faune / Canadian Wildlife Federation Pollinator poster at articule


Jérome Havre, Louise Dubreuil, Lysanne Thibodeau
photo by Nicole Fournier


Lysanne Thibodeau, Jérome Havre, Riaz Mehmood
photo by Nicole Fournier


Louise Dubreuil, Lysanne Thibodeau, Jérome Havre
photo by Nicole Fournier


Nicole Fournier, Lysanne Thibodeau, Louise Dubreuil
photo by Riaz Mehmood


Nicole Fournier et semance de plantes indigènes qui attirent les pollinisateurs
photo by Jérome Havre


Nicole Fournier, Lysanne Thibodeau
photo by Jérome Havre


Lysanne Thibodeau, Nicole Fournier
photo by Jérome Havre


Louise Dubreuil planting her soldier, containing wild flower seeds, getting ready to grow and bloom out of him.
photo by Riaz Mehmood

SKOL Anne Bertrand et Nicole Fournier


Anne Bertrand

photos by Riaz Mehmood

CIRCA Marie-Michelle Deschamps et Nicole Fournier


photos by Riaz Mehmood

OPTICA Dagmara Stephan and Nicole Fournier


photos by Riaz Mehmoo

“Action Collective” des centres d’artistes pour Le Jour de la Terre. Le Mercredi 22 avril au 31 mai, 2009

photo des mains de Yann Pocreau à Clark, semant des graines de plantes sauvages pour les pollinisateurs
Le Jour de la Terre - le 22 avril, 2009 (photo de Nicole Fournier)

InTerreArt organise en collaboration avec articule, « Action Collective » des centres d’artistes pour Le Jour de la Terre. 9 centres d’artistes participent : articule, La Centrale, Dare-Dare, Clark, Diagonale, Dazibao, Skol, Circa, Optica. Cette Action Collective est une idée, initiée par Nicole Fournier directrice/coordonnatrice de InTerreArt et membre d'articule; l’action est organisée, coordonnée, diffusée et facilitée par InTerreArt. InTerreArt et des membres d’articule distribueront gratuitement les graines de plantes sauvages de la Fédération Canadienne de la Faune et de la terre en petit pot, à chaque centre d’artistes. Chaque centre d’artistes prendra 15 minutes ou plus, le 22 avril 2009, Le Jour de la Terre, pour semer des graines pour les pollinisateurs. Du 22 avril au 31 mai 2009, d’autres possibilités d’actions artistiques d’ensemencement et de plantation de plantes sauvages, indigènes et cultivées seront encourager par InTerreArt, planifier et réaliser selon les centres, leurs membres, personnels et toutes autres personnes qui désirent participer, avec le support et collaboration de InTerreArt. InTerreArt est partenaire du projet Défi Habitat-Pollinisateurs de la Fédération Canadienne de la Faune. Pour participer ou avoir plus d’info sur Action Collective des centres d’artistes contacter l’organisme promoteur InTerreArt interreart@gmail.com ou pour plus d’info voir http://interreart.blogspot.com/. Et pour plus d’infos sur le sens et importance de l’action de semer pour les pollinisateurs et pour la nature et développement d’écosystème en ville, voir le site du projet Défi Habitat-Pollinisateurs de la Fédération Canadienne de la Faune http://www.cwf-fcf.org/fr/action/defihabitat/

Le Jour de la Terre - Earth Day - 2009

InTerreArt propose aux centres d’artistes de Montréal

Des centres d’artistes de Montréal pour Jour de la Terre
Le Jour de la Terre, Le mercredi 22 avril, 2009

De faire une “Action Collective” des centres d’artistes à Montréal le 22 avril, 2009
L’action est une petite action, premier geste collectif de la communauté des centres d’artistes, de semer des graines de plantes qui exercent un attrait particulier pour certains pollinisateurs, de plantes sauvages et indigènes.

InTerreArt est partenaire de la Fédération Canadienne de la Faune, pour leur projet
Défi Habitat-Pollinisateurs




Cette Action Collective a une importance significative pour la biodiversité, plantes sauvages indigènes et la population des pollinisateurs insectes qui sont essentiels pour la reproduction des plantes, l’agriculture et la securité alimentaire. Les plantes sauvages indigènes attirent les pollinisateurs, qui sont les abeilles, papillons, coléoptères - des espèces indispensables, dont leurs populations sont en forte dimunition.

Semer la diversité dans la biodiversité de plantes sauvages indigènes et pollinisateurs

http://www.jourdelaterre.org/

http://www.cwf-fcf.org/fr/action/defihabitat/partenaires-du-defi-habitat-pollinisateurs/

Industrial Park Live Dining 2008-2009

Industrial Park Live Dining 2008-2009 by Nicole Fournier
is a project made possible by the Canada Council for the Arts, Nicole Fournier and InTerreArt

Industrial Park Live Dining, the Live Dining concept adaption in the industrial park has been a co-creative project between Nicole Fournier and employees of a company. The Live Dining concept has evolved and will become a green space that will be a livable place for the employees, integrated with the small forest and wildlife, a permaculture space, indigenous plants and wild plants that existed on the site (most plants attracting pollinators) and more. The employees have called this space "Heritage Park".

Site of Industrial Park Live Dining





Below is one just one of the possibility - one of the sketches - that came out of the co-created, collaborative design process with employees, of a polyculture - permaculture integrated living green space, for employees and for Live Dining peformance 2009. The polyculture - permaculture design, includes, rare indigenous pollinator plants (to be planted), medicinal and pollinator indigenous plants that were already on the site, the small forest, organic cultivated species adapted to the climate, such as fruit trees and more.....


InTerreArt suports the conservation of the existing interconnected life between the biodiversity of species on the site, which include fox, rabbits, voles, birds, plants and trees, with restoration and enhancement with polyculture (permaculture) design, for the integration of a place for people, in the Industrial Park Live Dining project. The project includes Live Dining, and the whole co-creative and collaborative process involved in realizing this project, between employees, interdisplinary artist and ecological environmental consultant Nicole Fournier, Canadian Wildlife Federation, mammal specialist, plant specialists and experts on permaculture landscaping and environmental design, and all who bring a true honest concern for social, community and environmental health and benefits

Interconnected Performers - Performance Event, Performance Concept

 

Dimanche le 01 février 2009 / Sunday February 1st 2009

articule (centre d'artistes / artisst run center), Montréal, Québec (262 Fairmount O.)

lien / link  to blooger website presence of " Interconnected Performers Performance Concept "- Performance Events 2009 and 2010,  

The Event: Interconnected Performers - ONE DAY – 3 PERFORMANCES 

Curated by Nicole Fournier 

With performances by Tagny Duff, Eric Letourneau*, Nicole Fournier*

*Please note your dogs are invited to the performance, starting at 6:30pm.
 

Interconnected Performers showcases some of the concerns of interspecies relations/ interhuman relations/ bioworks/ecologies / interconnections with non-human performers.
 

The event addresses human interrelationships, collectivity; with living matter, bacteria, fungi and cellular collectivity, which make up humans and other species, with non-cellular, viral performance, interconnected to life.

It is about invisible performances that take place in the microcosm and macrocosm.

Installation-performance starting at noon

– action at 6:30pm  

Tagny Duff’s performance-installation, Performing Diagnosis, invites gallery visitors to collectively perform the testing for the presence of HIV via protocols performed through the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The “testing” will be performed with garbage collected from recycling bins- the antithesis of sterile technique practiced in laboratory environments. The performance will also feature a collective manoeuvre where visitors are invited to dispose of the waste (and ultimately the installation). The gallery becomes a place for creating and processing biological waste and pathogens created by its human-animal visitors. http://performingdiagnostics.wordpress.com/


action-manoeuvre – 6:30pm

Eric Letourneau’s maneouvre Drive-inn for sled dogs is about the transportation of pollen by mammals, in this case dogs. As mammals pass next to plants in the wilderness, they pick up pollen in their fur, carrying it, or consume seeds and poop them out. Thus allowing for the propagation of plant species. The Drive-inn for dogs will be set up in front of Articule gallery. The dogs will be parked and invited to watch the very first episode of the “Six Million Dollar Man”. Attracted by food painted on the storefront window, they eat, devour or at least lick Steve Austin, digesting him and shitting him out further away, pollinating the soil with his bionic seed.


Installation-performance starting at noon – action at 7pm and 7:30pm

Nicole Fournier will present The interconnections of people, dogs, fungi, food..... performing, with climate changed, recycled furniture, food preparation and decomposing food (composting). Fournier will be cooking and sharing food with the public (people and dogs), intermixed with play, between herself, her dog “Whistler”. The wildness of unpredictable improvised actions and planned or controlled actions, will take place, with painting food on the wall, which you and your dog are invited to eat. Fournier changes dress, use her voice, weedeater, razor, hair dryer, drill, a toy shark, for actions on food and plants in earth, cooking on a stove top.

lien / link  Interconnected Performers - Performance Event, Performance Concept