FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL D’ART PERFORMANCE - MARTINIQUE (FIAP 2019) Welcomes Performers, Curators and Art critics for their Second Iteration - November 5-12, 2019

image credit: "The Kingdom of Ice" performance, Ludgi Soap, Martinique, FWI

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We're headed to Martinique as proud sponsors of Martinique's upcoming International Performance Art Festival,  FIAP, held November 5-12 2019. The festival is co-curated by Caribbean artists Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut. FIAP 2019 stretches across 10 locations, allowing both local and visiting performance artists to become fully immersed within the local community. 

The festival's programming is uniquely orchestrated to not only presented solo performances, but ore often, collaborative works between artists hailing from different parts of the world. It is clear that Guérédrat and Tauliaut are interested in building longstanding relationships amongst their local community of Martinique. 

This year's FIAP 2019 performers hail from all over the world including: Hector Canonge (NYC, USA), André Eric Letourneau (Canada), Isil Sol Vil and Marina Jarsy Baner (Spain), Alex Côté (Montreal, Canada), Nyugen Smith (New Jersey, USA), Alicja Korek (Paris, France). Ludgi Savon (Martinique), Miao Jiaxin (NYC, USA), Lara Kramer (Canada), Marvin Fabien (Dominica), Henri Tauliaut (Martinique), Yves Bercion (Guadeloupe), Junior Estimé.

Stay tuned for FIAP2019 reviews, recaps and live feeds of performances on Insta via our Director + Founder, Quinn Dukes. As curator for Satellite Art Show, Dukes will also meet with performers to discuss their performance practice and upcoming projects. We look forward to seeing you in Martinique!

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DETAILED PROGRAM
During the week, performances are scheduled in Fort de France and an international workshop open to all.
​Free entry.
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Tuesday, November 5  Arrival of festival-goers

Wednesday, November 6
9 am-4: 30 pm: The artists form their pairs and meet in at Savane des Pétrifications
7:15 pm, Press conference +
8:30 pm, Opening of the Fiap19 Martinique exhibition & VIP cocktail only on invitations
(performance of Ludgi Savon) at Atelier 49 , FDF

Thursday, November 7
9 am to 1 pm: the artists form their pairs and meet in a research laboratory at the Savane des Pétrifications
In the evening at the Grand Maritime port of Martinique, hangar * Quai des Tourelles, in partnership with Tropiques Atrium, national stage of Martinique
7pm: Opening of the evening: Haitian rara group, New Jenerasyon All Moun jwenn Rara Peyi A
7:35pm EGUE, solo performance of Henri Tauliaut 
8pm Lest we forget, duo Marvin Fabien and Nyugen Smith (duration, 45')
9pm Duo djing and mapping / vjing Marvin Fabien & Yves Bercion in projection

Friday, November 8
12noon solo performance Ludgi Savon, large covered market of FDF
7pm At the Cultural Station *, Chrysalide (s), solo performance of Alicja KOREK 
9pm + binomial performances, made in Martinique, on the terrace of the hotel Empress

Saturday, November 9 
10am, meeting / presentation / small maneuver by André Eric Letourneau, Kazabul 
7pm bookstore, WATER.sync, performance Alex Côté, At the Cultural Station Evening Market Hall*
8pm-10pm Henri Tauliaut (homecoming ritual), duration performance
9am-12noon Performances of binomials, carried out in Martinique, such as Nyugen Smith & Marie Dimanche

Sunday, November 10 
9 am-5pm, during the day: Workshop: feldenkrais session (somatic practice) + workshops discussion / creation in the form of trialogue between academics / performers and activists (with Kap Caraïbes, Culture Equality, association Zero Chlordecone, zero poison), free admission by appointment, studio Anca Bertrand, Tropiques Atrium *
6:30pm-10pm
Grand Marché: Isil and Marina + performance of Myk Henry + other performances of pairs, made in Martinique
+ performance sound art by Marvin Fabien, Territory, Miao Xiajin's duration performance 

Monday, November 11
3pm-5pm Cultural Station participant performances in pairs, carried out in Martinique
3pm-6pm Hector Canonge
8pm  Ayiti Cherie
9pm Closing evening at Atelier 49

Tuesday, November 12 
7pm Performance of Lara Kramer at the Museum of Pre-Columbian Archeology and Prehistory of Martinique * (FDF) 

Wednesday, November 13, Thursday, November 14 : departure of all festival-goers
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* Thursday 7th November & Friday 8th from 11h to 17h: Sale of works by artists at Atelier 49 

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ABOUT FIAP
Performance is a radical practice where the artist in action or situation becomes himself a work of art. Historically, performance has always aimed to stage a form of experimentation, to open up new fields of research and engagement, to break the norm, to question artistic production and to engage the viewer in the process. . In the Caribbean, this practice is still young, hence FIAP Martinique's commitment to promoting the performance art of this region internationally.

For its second edition, FIAP19 Martinique, International Festival of Art Performance in Martinique, co-directed by Annabel Guérédrat & Henri Tauliaut , twoCaribbean curatorial artists , will be held from November 5 to 12, 2019. It is a Caribbean platform of performance in France , brings together performers , art critics and curators from around the world, the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, South America, Russia, Asia and Europe . During the week, performances are scheduled in Fort de France and an international workshop open to all. Free entry.

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