Louise Bédard – Experience

My experience as a participant in AnneBruce Falconer and Randal Newman’s THREAD/BARE project was rich and surprising. It’s not every day that you’re given carte blanche to work on a piece created by two artists, one from the visual arts and the other from contemporary dance and performance. I was drawn to the immediate and spontaneous aspect that this invitation suggested in terms of a performance proposal. Of course, I had no idea how I would inhabit this gallery, where several objects were displayed both on the walls and in the space, but I was going to discover it without knowing the content of the performance moments I had been assigned at the Galerie Produit Rien. 

I was immediately won over by the place, a small and intimate gallery with a palpable energy emanating from it. I can’t really say what happened during the three hours I performed. I only know that I entered into different physical, vocal, sensory, and psychic states, and that I came out with a keen sense of having experienced a kind of journey composed of flashes of different qualities of density of body and mind states. One thing is certain: the implementation of such a project, in which two artists invite other people to enter their world, is a provocative incentive for moments of creative outbursts. 

The kindness and trust of these two artists probably played a big role in this permissiveness, where I was able to transform, in my own way, as I imagine the other invited artists did, this place where there was talk of wounds, clashes, beauty, ugliness, but also of reappropriating one’s imagination through other unusual sources.