Andre Eric Letourneau is a laborer and artist of intangible cultural heritage. He pursues a practice engaged under various pseudonyms. His work manifests itself in the form of experiences lived directly in the real world that aim to change social practices through experiments based on methodologies traditionally associated with art. These are para-artistic activities that he infiltrates, particularly in the companies in which he is invited to work. Andre Eric Letourneau is resolutely opposed to recent trends in contemporary art, whose political content is often instrumentalized for representational purposes. He is interested in artistic production from an anthropological perspective, particularly Native American healing rituals, and in mass media as a way of bringing communities together and interconnecting them by promoting new encounters between citizens and institutions.
Experience
- He is a member of the evaluation committee for New Artistic Practices at the Conseil des arts de Montreal between 2009 and 2012.
- Professor at the Universite du Quebec à Montreal (UQAM).
- He is active in the Regroupement pour les Arts interdisciplinaires du Québec (RAIQ), the Dare-Dare centre.
- Member of the jury for New Practices at the Conseil des arts de Montreal.
- Since 2010 he has been teaching at the Université de Chicoutimi (Canada).
- With Madeleine Leclair, researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and head of the music section at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, he has been coordinating since 2008 the series of colloquia “Creation en milieu contraint”.