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Charline Clavier | Récits-Récifs
Line Nault is more interested in the perceptive than the spectacular. Through the body that speaks or moves, she reveals the invisible structures of human mechanisms and machine behaviour. She describes her approach as “interstitial,” both in her work on the body and in her perspective on artistic practices. In 2024, her performance-installation Récits-Récifs was presented at Mois Multi and at Agora de la danse. In 2021, she created Non de nom, a living laboratory combining installation, performance, movement, and digital lutherie. As associate artist at Recto-Verso from 2011 to 2016, she produced Là, 2012, and Attachée. Other works include SuperSuper, Super 8, La problématique de l’erreur, Kitmobile, L’espace des autres, Vivarium, and Boules. Alongside her own projects, she has collaborated as performer, choreographer, director, and consultant with artists such as Léonie Bélanger, Nancy Tobin, Lynda Gaudreau, Martin Bélanger, Manon Oligny, Brigitte Haentjens, Benoit Lachambre, and with companies including Momentum and L’Ange à deux têtes. Her work centres on technological tools developed at Artificiel, a digital lutherie lab where she develops her projects and co-directs EISODE, a presentation space dedicated to generative arts. She also offers workshops based on the methodologies emerging from her research. Line Nault holds a bachelor’s degree in dance and a graduate diploma in somatic education from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
JURY NOTES
With Récits-Récif, Line Nault offers an exploration of bodies and places through a somatic approach that weaves a language interspersed with bodily memories. In this mature work, the multidisciplinary artist skillfully combines performance and technology, giving life to a subtle, nuanced piece, in continuity with a practice that stands out on the Montreal scene. The originality of Line Nault’s work lies in the integration of technology into live performance and into the informal spaces that unfold between the two. Everything she does becomes poetic: simple scraps of costumes propel bodies in constant evolution; audio and video effects reveal unsuspected bodily states. In her world, technology amplifies nature rather than supplanting it. The audience witnesses a performance that proves to be a living process, a sensitive experience of human dimension.
Jean-françois Brière
