VALÉRIE LAMONTAGNE

This project is part of a body of research that focuses on relational and ubiquitous performance. Investigating historical performance-centric contexts and adapting new scenarios for wearable and sensing technologies, “Peau d’Âne” seeks to create links between the symbolic percipience of fairy tales and current technological innovation. In particular, this project explores the potential for wearables to become agents of performativity.

Becoming Balthus is a project that attempts to create a bridge between the fields of painting and performance. Conceived as both a performance and digital photo series Becoming Balthus is based on extensive research into the work of the painter Balthus (Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola) and the representation of women and adolescents in his paintings. Becoming Balthus aims at analyzing and synthesizing the artists’ work within a tradition of feminist performance art.

Sartorial Flux reflects on the changing nature of clothing and fashion in light of modern society’s increasingly nomadic and technologically ubiquitous lifestyle.

Sabrina Raaf’s exhibition Float playfully queries the relationship between humans and imaginative technological systems.