texuvie is an installation-performance project in development by dance artist Léonie Bélanger and visual artist Éloi Angers-Roy. Weaving - its flexibility, its perishability, its practice - inspires their research.
In their process, digital image and gesture usurp textile fiber. These two raw materials intertwine in a choreographic weaving ritual aided by a technological device custom-designed by the artificial studio.
They enter a residency to explore new installation possibilities and pursue their creative work.
Sound design : Victor Burton
Digital lutherie: Alexandre Burton (artificial)
Dramaturgic vision: Line Nault
In their process, digital image and gesture usurp textile fiber. These two raw materials intertwine in a choreographic weaving ritual aided by a technological device custom-designed by the artificial studio.
They enter a residency to explore new installation possibilities and pursue their creative work.
Sound design : Victor Burton
Digital lutherie: Alexandre Burton (artificial)
Dramaturgic vision: Line Nault
Dance artist based in Tiohtià :ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, Léonie Bélanger completed a bachelor's degree in contemporary dance at the UQÀM (2021) and has since pursued a career as a performer and creator. She has worked with Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, Danièle Desnoyers/Le Carré des Lombes, Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin and Alejandro Sajgalik, among others. Léonie gravitates towards an expanded practice of the body, which leads her to explore collaborative, interdisciplinary and digital forms of work. In her creative work, she seeks to understand how the body can bridge different realities, both lived and imagined. Since 2021, she has been exploring the notion of the digital body as she pursues research at the intersection of dance, visual art and digital art with interdisciplinary artist Éloi Angers-Roy. She is also presenting : L’Absolu est absurde (2022), Égo et cheval : acte 2 (2023), Corps. Route. Ride. (2023) and ALTERMUNDI (2024), hybrid creations of dance, improvisation and science fiction by the Projet Alterdogs collective, which she co-directs with Claire Pearl.
Éloi Angers-Roy is an artist working with images (digital, pictorial, video) on the Tio'Tià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal territory. A master's candidate in anthropology (Université de Montréal), his artistic research is currently focused on :
- The discursive unpredictability of artistic expression and its potential for upheaval.
- the banality of the spectrum, systemic abstraction.
- the concrete experience of collaboration.