student performances
STUDENT PERFORMANCE MANIFESTO
A student performer:
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Studies studies themselves as a subject.
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In all aspects (or almost all), integrates the student social spheres.
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Performs the student life-style.
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Learns what students learn.
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Never adheres to productionist beliefs of post-secondary studies.
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Is neither a university student, nor a performer artist. A student performer breaks through categories by combining them. Therefore, whoever is interested in adhering the student performer lifestyle can be a student performer.
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Uses a maximal amount of information received in class as performance material.
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Creates and enacts intention-based student performances on a regular basis on the frequented campus(es) or with a scholar object or of scholar connotation.
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Documents by picture taking, sound recording, description or testimony, every intention-based student performance.
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Gives a title to each performance, and adds it to the Student Performances List.
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Fabricates performances that stimulate questioning or that are perfectly useless (non-productive).
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Maintains a University-student-like discipline.
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Asks questions, regularly attends cultural events, meets people of their community, searches the sources of their questioning, recover each and every objet of inspiration, nurtures their body and mind.
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As a University student, never loses motivation if their community disapproves with their choices; their role is essential in the student and citizen communities, even if it is still to be built.
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In the manners of a University student, opens up to others' knowledge and comes into the world without erecting ideological fixed walls.
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Maintains belief in the beauty and worth of every environment. Also encourages the crossing of environments, social circles, disciplines, definitions, departments, interests, ideologies, cultures, languages, beliefs, living and non-living entities.
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Understands the University campus’ space as a playground. The norms of the place only apply on the Student Performer’s choices as inspirational -not restrictive.
011. Express Yourself.
(02/17/19) In my kitchen, after an 8-hour intensive art performance workshop given by Sylvie Tourangeau in University of Sherbrooke, filling my mouth with pens and pencils. [vidéo]
010. Corps-chaise
(02/16/19) In my kitchen, after an 8-hour intensive art performance workshop given by Sylvie Tourangeau in University of Sherbrooke, reacting to my hatred of school chairs by looking for all the possible configurations of a body and a chair.
009. Liking knowledge
(01/23/19) At Bishop's University's Art Lab, as part of a workshop on Student Performance, manipulating Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self, like i would manipulate a lover [pictures]
008. Walking Tour of the Common
(10/26-30/18) Organizing a walking tour on the path I take between my place and my school. Creating a context for people to care for their dwelling space by suggesting attitudes and opening discussions on the topic. [pictures]
007. Sorting out books
(10/11/18) At the opening event for the Eastern Townships Book Fair, sorting out books with increasing energy and vigor in order to fill up a tiny bookshelf. Not waiting to be introduced, simply interrupting the host. [pictures]
006. Giving rhythm to trafic
(10/02/18) At the end of classes, crossing and crossing again College street until I get honked at by an annoyed car-driver. Stop when I feel noticed. [video]
005. Adopting the "mountain" yoga posture in a busy hallway.
(09/27/18) At Bishop's University, standing in a busy hallway between two class hours. [written description]
Arms along my body, unclenched jaw, loosen knees, staring right ahead, finding a still spot, my breath stable, slow, deep, positioning myself in the middle of a faculty hallway. To be more precise, positioning myself in front of NIC-004 room door, right after the end of a class called Space, Place, and Human Experience during which was discussed Henri Lefebvre's spacial theory. Lefebvre considered space as a notion intrinsically linked with our way of occupying it. He firmly rejects the dualist or geometrical definitions of space. A place is a social construct and can be modified by the ones that built it.
004. Documenting my state
(17/09/18) Replacing a medical note with a detailed photographic documentation of my state. Showing proof of my temperature on a thermometer, being pale, drinking camomile tea and fresh water. [pictures]
003. Sources of the Self 2
(09/13/18) For about 6 minutes, reading Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self, while sitting on the pumped water source of University de Sherbrooke's campus creek (filmed by Alexandre Veilleux). [video]
002. The Squash Waltz
(09/11/18) For about 20 minutes, practicing contact dance in the ancestral garden on University of Sherbrooke campus with a squash, an ear of corn, and a friend. (with Olivier Saint-Jean Rondeau) [geolocalization]
