Modern Fuel presents performance artist Julie Andrée T. will be exploring the possibility of using the body as a canvas, to create a moving drawing suggesting a changing landscape. Without a stable point of reference, the performer oscillates between being a body with an identity and a body-object. Inspired and fascinated by tragic moments, Julie Andrée T. is searching for a universal language while telling a story. She asks, “What if the story is just a deviation to walk towards abstraction?”

The iconoclastic Julie Andrée T. dazzles audiences with disconcerting, moving and unclassifiable performance pieces that deploy an astounding transformation of the body. She has had outstanding success with her unsettling and fascinating works that are a hybrid of performance-installation and theatre. “Not Waterproof” and “Rouge,” for example, will play the Festival TransAmériques this June in Montreal. Julie Andrée T. is now returning to performance presented in the “traditional” way in the experimental space of alternative art galleries, as she explores a new series of performances dealing with the body and drawing.

Join Julie Andrée T. for a discussion of her artistic practice on Wednesday February 17 at 7pm, and attend the performance on Thursday February 18 at 7pm.  Both events are at Modern Fuel.  Admission is free.