I'll post a few takes from la Foire d'Art Alternatif de Sudbury (FAAS) over the next few days.
What was for the public a varied but potent art fair, was an art camp for the participants. And like at any summer camp, you befriend awesome people in very little time. Rouyn Noranda-based performance artists Andréane Boulanger (cycling garb), Valéry Hamelin (beret and fur coat), and Alain Desrochers (tutu and undies) were just that for me.
Shown here is their first collaboration as a trio. Desrochers would dress-up in a leotard or tutu and try to either cleanse himself from evil spirits by digging and throwing soil over his shoulder, or trying to stop cars passing by with his oversized fan.
Boulanger would follow him around offering to dress or feed him as a caring mother would, gaging what she thought he needed. The food she prepared for him she cooked by flames she spat out of her mouth.
Hamelin carefully watched over them patiently waiting her turn. It came once both Desrocher and Boulanger got tired. She pounced on Desrocher and began to wrap his belly with a microphone cable almost as if to reunite herself with her baby through an umbilical cord.
