Nicole Peyrafitte Explained

Nicole Peyrafitte
Birth Date:18 June 1960
Birth Place:Bagnères-de-Luchon, French Pyrenees
Occupation:Pluridisciplinary Artist
Language:French, English, Spanish, Occitan
Nationality:French and American
Genre:Poetry & Performance Arts / Culinary Arts / Visual Arts
Spouse:Pierre Joris
Children:Joseph Mastantuono and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

Nicole Peyrafitte is a Pyrenean-born multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work in painting, action painting, writing, film, video, music, and cooking draws upon her eclectic history and the experiences of shaping identity across two continents (Europe and the United States) and four languages (French, Occitan, Spanish, English). Her performances often include food cooked live and served to the audience as sustenance, from whipping cream, crepes and soups, to full dinners.

Biography

Private life

Nicole Peyrafitte was born in Luchon (French Pyrenees) into the 5th generation of a family of restaurateurs and received her early cooking training from her grandfather Joseph Peyrafitte, a renowned chef.[1] Later she perfected her skills, interning at several award-winning restaurants in France. She moved to the United States in 1987, where she developed her career as a collagist, painter, action-painter, singer, poet and filmmaker.

She lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn since 2007 after 15 years in Albany, New York, and before that in Encinitas, California, where she met her husband, poet Pierre Joris. She has two award-winning sons: colorist & producer Joseph Mastantuono and director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte.

Career

Though Nicole Peyrafitte has no formal art training —except for two painting courses in the early 90s with renowned painter & close friend Dawn Clements—, she has been practicing yoga for over 20 years, bikes & kayaks regularly — all activities linked to her research & work.

Nicole Peyrafitte's work has been presented nationally and internationally. In New York, she has performed in venues such as The Poetry Project,[2] Zinc Bar,[3] Bowery Poetry Club,[4] Borough of Manhattan Community College, The Vision Festival,[5] Poets House and upstate at Bard College & numerous locations in and around Albany.

National venues include San Francisco State University,[6] University of California, San Diego,[7] Berkshire Community College, the Walker Art Institute,[8] Bard College,[9] [10] The Kelly Writers House at Penn University,[11] Boise State University & Naropa University [12] as artist/teacher in residence.

Internationally, Birkbeck College, University of London, University of Edinburgh, Université de Bordeaux, Festival les Voix de la Méditerranée,[13] CCA Glasgow, ENSA Limoges, Musée Soulage Rodez, Jardin des Cinq Sens et des Formes Premières, Festival Internacional de las Letras de San Luis Potosí,[14] Encuentro Internacional de Performance en Durango,[15] are some of the venues that have showcased her performances.

Her visual art works are part of the permanent collections of the Musée Paul Valerie Sète, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art Luxembourg, Bibliothèque du Luxembourg, Glasgow Women's Library Museum and National Literature Centre of Luxembourg.

Performances

Karstic Actions

Since 2011, Nicole Peyrafitte has been working on an open-ended series of live performances which brings together her interests, preoccupations and multiple practices. The KARSTIC-Action Paintings explore proprioception (the sense of body position) and kinesthesia (the sense of body movement) as meeting points between painting, poetry, voice and improvised music. Following her intuition and bypassing a range of traditional inhibitions, Peyrafitte investigates the porosity of her consciousness and unconsciousness with, as tangible aim and outcome, a strong desire to reveal the immanent soul of that moment. Most often the markings are done with the feet, either in hand-stand or head-stand, and/or with mouth-sprayed charcoals or other natural pigments (hands are rarely used to mark, except for smaller formats). Each of these events is unique. Action Paintings have been showcased at the Galerie Simoncini in Luxembourg, at the Salon Zürcher in New York, and are part of the public collections of Musée Paul Valerie Sète, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art Luxembourg, Bibliothèque du Luxembourg, Glasgow Women's Library Museum and Centre de National Literature du Luxembourg.[16]

Selected Performances and Collaborations

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Films & videos

Publications

Books and Chapbooks

Magazine & Anthologies Publications

Translations

Occitan to English

French to English

English to French

Discography

Awards and honors

Reviews

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Reynière . La . Robert Courtine . 4 August 1979 . Les rendez-vous de luchon . fr . . live . 4 November 2023 . https://archive.today/20231104163444/https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1979/08/04/les-rendez-vous-de-luchon_2771302_1819218.html . 4 November 2023.
  2. Web site: Peoplet: Nicole Peyrafitte . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231104155757/https://www.poetryproject.org/people/nicole-peyrafitte . 4 November 2023 . 4 November 2023 . Poetry Project.
  3. Web site: 20 October 2010 . "Poetry from Luxembourg" Featuring Jean Portante & Pierre Joris with Nicole Peyrafitte . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20230621001940/https://newyork-cg.mae.lu/en/News/Poetry-from-Luxembourg-Featuring-Jean-Portante-Pierre-Joris-with-Nicole-Peyrafitte . 21 June 2023 . Consulate General of Luxembourg in New York.
  4. Web site: 30 July 2015 . Cabaret Hérétique Vol 3 : Sentience . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220703063714/https://www.nicolepeyrafitte.com/tag/bowery-poetry-club/ . 3 July 2022 . 4 November 2023 . nicolepeyrafitte.com.
  5. Web site: 2010 . Vision Festival XV . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230604182709/https://www.artsforart.org/vf15.html . 4 June 2023 . 4 November 2023 . Art for Art.
  6. Web site: 19 March 2015 . Video + Audio Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, reading and in conversation . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231104161842/https://poetry.sfsu.edu/archive/events/29168-video-audio-pierre-joris-and-nicole-peyrafitte-reading-and-conversation.html . 4 November 2023 . 4 November 2023 . The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives . San Francisco State University.
  7. Web site: 23 October 2013 . Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231104162325/https://www.sandiegoreader.com/events/2013/oct/23/pierre-joris-and-nicole-peyrafitte/ . 4 November 2023 . 4 November 2023 . . en.
  8. Web site: 2015 . Basil King: Mirage . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230611005202/https://walkerart.org/calendar/2015/screening-basil-king-mirage . 11 June 2023 . 4 November 2023 . Walker Art Center.
  9. Web site: 8 October 2001 . A day of Poetry to Celebrate Robert Kelly's 40 Years at Bard College: November 10 program features poetry readings, performances, and a Stan Brakhage film . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220706013126/https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=326 . 6 July 2022 . 4 November 2023 . . en.
  10. Web site: 13 March 2011 . Nicole Peyrafitte sings 6 poems from Not This Island Music, Bard, November 2001 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231104164745/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N828cpOoiCs . 4 November 2023 . 4 November 2023 . YouTube.
  11. Web site: ABOUT THE KELLY WRITERS HOUSE.
  12. Web site: Summer Writing Program Naropa University.
  13. Web site: Nicole Peyrafitte at Les Voix Vives Méditerranée.
  14. Web site: Festival Letras en SLP contará con escritores internacionales. 21 October 2014 .
  15. Web site: Nicole Peyrafitte, Periódico de Poesía de la UNAM.
  16. Web site: Action Paintings.
  17. Web site: Domopoetic Works Pierre Joris. 2022-01-12. www.pierrejoris.com.
  18. Web site: Travaux/Actions Karstiques 2021 at Galerie Simoncini.
  19. Web site: Betsy Damon's performance Listen, Respect, Revere. 27 October 2021 .
  20. Web site: Trickster Feminism. 15 November 2018 .
  21. Web site: Culturemart 2013 : Artaud in the Black Lodge, New York, NY .
  22. Web site: Travaux/Actions Karstiques 2021 at Galerie Simoncini.
  23. Web site: Bagnères-de-Luchon. Une artiste et deux continents. 2022-01-12. ladepeche.fr. fr.
  24. https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/tu_peyrafitte_joris.html An act with taste by Greg Haymes in Times Union, 02/15/2007
  25. Web site: Women and Other Wild Creatures.
  26. http://www.denisbrun.com/commissariat-expositions.php More info on Denis Brun's website
  27. https://www.tribes.org/web/2010/05/14/waltzing-in-quicksand-poets-in-collage Waltzing in Quicksand: Poets in Collage, A Gathering of the Tribes, 2010
  28. Web site: Albany Center Gallery.
  29. Web site: 3.2 private protest. 16 October 2021 .
  30. Web site: Paul Celan by Pierre Joris: A Reading. 13 November 2020.
  31. Web site: Robert Kelly : A Celebration. 11 September 2020.
  32. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5243582/ Things Fall Where They Lie (2018), IMDb page
  33. Web site: Watch THINGS FALL WHERE THEY LIE Online | Vimeo on Demand. 26 March 2018.
  34. Web site: Anthology Film Archives Screenings.
  35. https://vimeo.com/search?q=pierre+joris+flash+interviews Pierre Joris Flash Interviews #1 to #6 by Nicole Peyrafitte
  36. https://vimeo.com/240313122 Pierre Joris' translation of Paul Celan poem: Erinnerung an Frankreich/Remembrance of France, concept/video/editing & singing by Nicole Peyrafitte
  37. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2412892/ Basil King: Mirage (2012), IMDb page
  38. https://vimeo.com/42999289 You Lie by Paul Celan, translated and read by Pierre Joris, filming, editing and sound by Nicole Peyrafitte
  39. https://vimeo.com/42994694 Poems by Paul Celan, translated and read by Pierre Joris, filming, editing and sound by Nicole Peyrafitte
  40. Web site: Connection en Mille-Feuille, drawings on a concertina book by Nicole Peyrafitte.
  41. Web site: "Carnet 2" from Nicole Peyrafitte. 2022-01-12. www.redfoxpress.com.
  42. Web site: Landsc0pes aux Editions Plaine Page, Word Drawings.
  43. Web site: Chemins - Eugène Guillevic. 2022-01-12. www.galeriesimoncini.lu.
  44. Web site: Liminale Line • Nicole Peyrafitte. 2022-01-12. les-venterniers. fr.
  45. Web site: Plaine Page - ZIP 22 - ZIP 185 - Ateliers - Editions. 2022-01-12. www.plainepage.com.
  46. Web site: "Carnet" from Nicole Peyrafitte. 2022-01-12. www.redfoxpress.com.
  47. Web site: "Karstic de Nicole Peyrafitte".
  48. Web site: "High Tide of Activism".
  49. Web site: "Nicole Peyrafitte, Word Drawings".
  50. Web site: "Alcatraz, Alcatrace,القطر".
  51. Web site: "Junction Box".
  52. Web site: 12 January 2019 . Nicole Peyrafitte . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201115182830/https://www.thecafereview.com/winter-2019-artist-nicole-peyrafitte/ . 15 November 2020 . 4 November 2023 . The Café Review.
  53. Web site: "LiveMag! #15".
  54. Web site: "Editions Bruno Doucey".
  55. Web site: "Pleins feux sur les collections. Peinture et poésie. Les peintres vus par les poètes.".
  56. Web site: Mindmade Books Catalog. 2022-01-12. mindmadebooks.com.
  57. Web site: Two Occitan poets, Bernat Manciet & Marcela Delpastre, from an Assemblage in Progress Jacket2. 2022-01-12. jacket2.org.
  58. https://www.upne.com/0819574848.htmlhttps://www.upne.com/0819574848.html Selected Writings of César Vallejo, Wesleyan University Press
  59. Web site: Theory, A Sunday – B E L L A D O N N A *. 2022-01-12. en-US.
  60. https://africasacountry.com/2013/12/the-book-of-north-african-literature-pierre-joris-on-poetry-and-miscegenation/ The Book of North African Literature: Pierre Joris on Poetry and Miscegenation by Orlando Read for Africa is a Country, 12/05/2013
  61. Web site: Rothenberg Bibliography. 2022-01-12. writing.upenn.edu.
  62. https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/1886449392/gary-hill-hand-heardliminal-objects.aspx George Quasha and Charles Stein, Gary Hill: HanD HearD/Liminal Objects, Station Hill Press of Barrytown
  63. http://www.plainepage.com/editions/connexions/bivalve.htm Bi-Valve, Plaine Page, 2015
  64. https://www.discogs.com/Nicole-Peyrafitte-Michael-Bisio-Whisk-Dont-Churn/release/3859680 Whisk! Don’t Churn! Nicole Peyrafitte and Michael Bisio, Ta'wil Productions, Discogs
  65. https://www.mediasanctuary.org/peoplepower/sax-soup-poetry-and-voice/ Sax Soup Poetry & Voice, The Sanctuary for Independent Media
  66. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/peyrafitte The Bi-Continental Chowder, Ta'wil Productions, cdbaby
  67. http://nicolepeyrafitte.com/about/ Times Union review available on Nicole Peyrafitte' official website
  68. Web site: New York State Writers Institute . May 19, 2012.

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