Contextual and site-specific, Martine Viale’s work is based on action art and is grounded in a practice of presence. Working regularly in the public space and unusual places that can facilitate unpredictable encounters with passers-by, she is interested in the momentary loss of landmarks and in the use of actions as a tool for analyzing certain personal and social conditioning. The body in action is at the centre of her practice and she is inspired by the interval between art and the everyday and by the multiple bridges of encounter between the two. She uses time both as a driving force and as a means of spatial and relational negotiation.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Martine Viale lives and works in Perpignan, France. Since 1999, her work have been presented in several festivals, galleries and site-specific context across Canada and internationally in Brazil, Israel, Poland, Cyprus, United States, Brittany, France, Belgium, Serbia, The Philippines, Japan, Scotland, Spain, Ukraine and Denmark.
She has also given several intensive performance art workshops in Montreal (Studio 303; La Centrale galerie powerhouse), Chicago (Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery), as well as in France (Frac Lorraine, Metz; Le Quartz, scène nationale de Brest; Espace o25rjj, Loupian), Belgium (La Cambre, Brussels), Ukraine (School of Performance, Lviv), New Castle Upon Tyne (Northumbria University) and Spain (Acciónmad!18, Madrid).
Contextuel et spécifique au site, le travail de Martine Viale est basé en art action et s’ancre dans une pratique de la présence. Travaillant régulièrement dans l’espace public et dans des lieux insolites pouvant faciliter des rencontres imprévisibles avec les passants, elle s’intéresse à la perte momentanée de repères et à l’utilisation d’action comme outils d’analyse de certain conditionnements personnel et social. Le corps en action est au centre de sa pratique et elle est inspiré par l’intervalle entre l’art et le quotidien et par les multiples points de rencontre entre les deux. Elle utilise le temps à la fois comme force motrice ainsi que comme moyen de négociation spatiale et relationnelle.
Née à Montréal, Québec, Martine Viale vit et travaille à Perpignan. Depuis 1999, ses œuvres ont été présentées dans plusieurs festivals, galeries et contexte in situ à travers le Canada ainsi que sur la scène internationale notamment au Brésil, Israël, Pologne, Chypre, États-Unis, Bretagne, France, Belgique, Serbie, Philippines, Japon, Écosse, Espagne, Ukraine et au Danemark.
Elle a également donné plusieurs formations en art performance à Montréal (Studio 303; La Centrale galerie powerhouse), à Chicago (Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery) ainsi qu’en France (Frac Lorraine, Metz; Le Quartz scène nationale de Brest, Espace o25rjj, Loupian), en Belgique (La Cambre, Bruxelles), en Ukraine (School of Performance, Lviv) à New Castle Upon Tyne (Northumbria University) et en Espagne (Acción!Mad18, Madrid).
CV
Selected actions&interventions:
2021 Dordrecht Museum, La Biennale de Momon, The Netherlands
2021 Cultural Rizoma, Celrà, Catalonia, Spain, project with Mar Serinyà Gou, curator Rita Andreu Vaquer
2021 La Biennale de Momon, a project by Frans Van Lent
2021 Bòlit centre d’art contemporani Girona, shared residency with the artist Max Wyse
2020 Pssssst!-Still wird es gewesen sein, exhibition project by Stephan Us, Rheine Germany
2020 Espace o25rjj, Loupian, France, production residency organized by Pascale Ciapp
2020 FEM_20 curator Denys Blacker
2020 La Filature du Mazel, France, project with Mar Serinyà Gou, curator Julien Bouissou
2020 Out of Site 2020, curator Carron Little
2020 Corpórea Festival, curator Aríadna Isis Pérez
2019 FEM_19 Residency at Can Obert, Catalonia, Spain, organized by Denys Blacker
2019 Exposition invisible, Camps de Rivesaltes, France, curator Rafael Gray
2019 La Cave, experimental residency, Fort de la Galline, curator Camille Santacreu
2019 Sans gaz ni trompettes, Château d’Aubais, France, curator Julien Bouissou
2019 Espace o25rjj, Loupian, France
2018 AccionMad18, Madrid, Spain
2018 Days of performance art in Lviv, Ukraine
2018 Ciclo Exchange Girona, a project by Isabel Leon, Bòlit centre d’art contemporani, Girona, curator Denys Blacker
2018 Nit de performance 14 women X 14 space, Bòlit centre d’art contemporani, Girona, curator Denys Blacker
2018 Soirée art performance, espace o25rjj, Loupian, France organised by Pascale Ciapp
2017 Actus V, Brussels, Belgium, organized by Béatrice Didier
2017 PAO Performance Art Oslo, Norway
Frac Lorraine, during the exhibition Ressources humaines curated by Virginie Jourdain
FEM_16, residency and action art, Bòlit centre d’art contemporani, Girona, Spain,
curator: Denys Blacker
2016 Exchange Live Art, exchange Spain-Canada, Accion! MAD Festival, Spain
La Muga Caula, Girona, Sapin, curator: Joan Casellas
Keep the process warm, exhibition on performance art; Montauban, France,
curator: Marc Giloux
Interakcje, Poland, curator: Tomasz Szrama
PAErsche, performance laboratory, Köln, Germany
2015 Circa art actuel, Montreal, Canada
Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Chicago
Format sans titre ajouté, intervention at librairie Formats, Montreal
2014 5 Hours/5 Minutes, performance-collaboration with Michelle Lacombe
Ma Interval infiltration in public spaces, presented with Dare Dare, duration 1 year
Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal
Art Souterrain edition 2014, Montreal, Canada
2013 ZAZ Festival, Tel Aviv and Haifa, Israel; curator: Tamar Raban
Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago; curator: Joseph Ravens
Ma Intervalle @ La Centrale, Montreal, duration; 7 days
Cyprus international performance art, Nicosie, Cyprus; curator: Christina Georgiou
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Curitiba, Brazil
Curator: Fernando Ribeiro
2012 Time, body, space, objects-Part 2, Boston; curators: Alice Vogler and Vela Phelan
Visualeyez Canada’s annual festival of performance art, Edmonton, Canada
Duration: 7 days, curator: Todd Janes
Echo d’un fleuve 5th edition, Montreal, curator: Danny Gaudreault
Fado Performance Art Center, Toronto
2011 Out of Site Chicago, curator: Defibrillator Gallery
**the performance was accompanied by a lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago
Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montreal, Canada
VIVA! Art Action, Montreal, Canada
Infiltrate! Performance Art Festival@Fountain New York, curator: Grace Space
Trampolim_Plataforma de encontro com a arte da performance, Rio de Janeiro and
Vitoria, Brazil; curator: Marcus Vinicius
2010 Soirée de performances Martine Viale/Jeff Huckleberry Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel, Quebec, Canada
7a*11d’s 8th International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto
Articule centre d’artistes autogéré.artist run center, Montreal,
Special projects Drift Lines/À la Dérive
2009 Off Biennale of Montreal, organised by Dare Dare, Montreal
2008 Fountain Art Fair, NYC, curated by Grace Exhibition Space
The National Review of Live Art 2008, Glasgow, Scotland
2007 Le Quartz, Scène National de Brest, Brittany
IMAF 07, International Multimedia Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Contaminate II, Boston
Grace Space, NYC
2006 Rencontre Internationale d’art Performance de Québec 2006 (RIAP), Le Lieu, Quebec
Festival City Sonics, Brussels, Mons and Avignon
3rd Tupada International Action Art event’06, Philippines
2005 Live Biennial of Performance Art, Western Front, Vancouver BC.
Contenedores (05), Muestra international de arte de action, Seville, Spain
2004 Chashama Center, NYC
Galerie La Centrale Powerhouse, Montreal
2003 4th Performance Festival in Odense, Denmark, Ostéoblastes
Festival Off Avignon, France,
Grants
2015 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, travel grant, Chicago
2013 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, travel grant, Israël
2013 Canada council for the arts travel grant, Curitiba, Brazil
2013 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, travel grant, Nicosia, Ciprus
2011, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, travel grant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, creation grant
2008, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and CAC, Glasgow, Scotland
2007 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, creation grant
2007, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, travel grant Serbia
2006, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, travel grant Brussels/France
2004 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, creation grant
2003 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, creation grant
2003, Canada council for the arts, travel grant, Denmark
2003, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, travel grant, Avignon, France
2002 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, creation grant
2002 Canada council for the arts, creation grant
2001 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, creation grant
1998 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, creation grant, Japan
1998 Canada council for the arts, creation grant
1995 Canada council for the arts, perfectionning grant, Japan
1994 Canada council for the arts, Perfectionning grant, Japan
Videos
2012 Intra Muros (exerpt of a performance/installation), Les informelles#3; La Revue Diapo presented at Point Éphémère, Paris, France
Programming: Florian Gaité and Clarisse Tranchard
2007 Ostéoblastes, L’art de la performance by Pascal Keiser, maison Jean Vilar, France
2005 Objet Sculptural III, 2nd Tupada International Action Art Event, Manila, Philippines
2004 Ostéoblastes, La Boite à image, Avignon, France
2003 Ostéoblastes,e bent festival,Vìdeo a la carta, Ediciò 2003, Barcelona, Spain
Teaching-Performance Art Workshops
2021 Site+Time, Out of Site Online Platform, organized by Carron Little
2021 Out of Site Flow Symposium, online event, organized by Carron Little
2019 RAIQ (Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaire du Québec), Montreal, Canada
2019 Espace o25rjj, Loupian, France, organized by Pascale Ciapp
2018 AccionMad!18, Madrid, Spain, organized by Nieves Correa
2018 Contemporary Art Guest Lecturer, lecture and workshop at Northumbria University, New Castle, England
2018 School of Performance in Lviv #10, Ukraine, organised by V. Kaufman
2017 La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium, organized by Antoine Pickels
2017 Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, organized by Virginie Jourdain
2015 La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, organized by Virginie Jourdain
2010 Defibrillator performance art gallery organized by Joseph Ravens, Chicago
2008 Canal Danse, Paris, France organized by Céline Coyac
2007 Le Quartz Scène Nationale de Brest, Britanny, France, co-organized by L’atelier MO and the Quartz, Scène Nationale de Brest
Nantes, France, organized by Émilie Olivier
Paris, France, organized by Céline Coyac
1999- 2015 Studio 303, Montreal, regular programming workshops for professional artists
Press and publications
-Contenedores Muestra Internacional De Arte De Acción- Una década de performance en Sevilla (2001-2010) a project of Rubén Barroso, publication on the history of the festival, Sevilla, Spain.
-More Caught in the Act, an anthology of performance art by Canadian women, edited by Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars, Artexte Edition, Montreal- YYZ Books, Toronto,
-Inter, Art Actuel#121/Pauvreté, Dépouillement et Dénuement
-Performance is Alive, Presenting the work of contemporary performance artists+actionists; Artist Feature, Interview with Quinn Dukes 2015
-this moment: missives from another world thirty years of performances photographed by Bob Raymond copyright 2015 Marilyn Arsem; a publication of Mobius, Inc. printed in Massachusetts
-Dare-Dare 3 DIS/LOCATIONs, Projet d’articulation urbaine, Square Cabot/ Parc Walter- Stewart, Quartier des spectacles 2015
-VENTRILOQUIST, Volume01, Number01, May 2015, by Whitney Lynn
-Dans l’atelier du Performeur par Jonathan Lamy, Inter Art Actuel#118, Avant l’oeuvre 2014
-Emergency Index Volume 2, documenting performance annuly, Ugly Duckling Presse, dec. 2013; editor: Yelena Gluzman and Sophia Cleary
-Martine Viale (Canada) Intra Muros III, Cyprus International Performance Art Festival blog, June 2013; text by Christina Georgiou
-Ma (Intervalle) de Martine Viale à la Centrale, by Audrey Laurin, Projet Vivarium,
Sept. 04-2013
-Performance artist Martine Viale explores the void, by Robyn Fadden, Blouin Artinfo 2013
-Martine Viale (Canada) Intra Muros III, by Christina Georgiou, Cipafestival blog, june 2013
-On being vulnerable:Martine Viale by Amber Landgraff, Visualeyez Performance Art Festival, Blog 2012
-VIVA! art action: D’où performons-nous? by Sylvie Tourangeau, ETC, Revue de l’art Actuel, REPRÉSAILLES, Févr., mars, avril, mai 2012
-Martine Viale (QC)/Alice de Visscher (BEL), by TOUVA collective, Viva Art Action/Blog, October 11
-Électrons libres en performance, by Guy Sioui Durand, Inter Art Actuel#108, Agir/Pratiques et Processus, May 2011
-A beach within reach/Drift Lintes exhibit invites viewers to take a vacation from the winter blues, by Dana Drori, culture writer, The McGill Daily, January 25th 2010
-Histoire de l’oeuf, by Yann Lafleur, BlofOff, Off Biennale of Dare Dare, May 2009
-Divers types de déplacement : cinq propositions pour le faire, by G.R Fartel, Inter Art Actuel, Arts de la rencontre, spring 2007
-Contaminate II @Midway studios, by Jed Speare, Big Red&Shiny, online Arts journal
for Boston
-Objet Sculptural, Victoria Singh, Front Magazine, Vancouver, September/ October 05
-Offrande au Corps Commun, Émilie Olivier, #54 Esse Arts + Opinions, May 05
-Ostéoblastes , de la terre à la pierre, Thierry Alcaraz, journal Le Dauphiné Libéré
Avignon, France 29 July 03
-Ostéoblastes, voyage autour d’un corps, A.H, journal La Marseillaise, Avignon,
France, 26 July 03
-Ostéoblastes, Catherine Guizot, journal La Provence, Avignon, France 31 July 03
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