Description:
This video production is a triptych of performance works Marie Chouinard: Mimas, Lune de Saturne (1980); Plaisirs de Tous Les Sens dans Tous les Sens (1981); and Marie Chien Noir (1982). Over the course of the forty-three-minute video, Chouinard performs a variety of gestures: she dances with a skeleton, bobs for a green pepper in a bucket of water, masterbates, dons an oversized wolf mask, and reads from a giant picture book.
Marie Chien Noir was shot and edited by Michael Brodie. The work was performed live on May 16, 1982 at the Firehall Theatre as part of Western Front’s Independent Choreographer Series.
Video documentation available upon request.
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