Nicole Peyrafitte | |
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Born | Bagnères-de-Luchon, French Pyrenees, France | June 18, 1960
Occupation | Multidisciplinary 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 |
Website | |
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Nicole Peyrafitte is a French-born American multidisciplinary artist based as of 2024 in Brooklyn, NY. Her work includes painting, action painting, writing, film, video, music, and cooking, which 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.
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.[ citation needed ] Her father was Jean Peyrafitte Fr (1922-2017), who represented Haute-Garonne in the Pyrenees in the French Fifth Republic (1989-1998).
She moved to the United States in 1987, where she developed her career as a collagist, painter, action-painter, singer, poet and filmmaker.[ citation needed ]
She lived first in Encinitas, California, where she met her husband, poet Pierre Joris. From 1992 through 2007, for 15 years, she lived in Albany, New York. [ citation needed ]
Peyrafitte had only a limited formal art training – two painting courses in the early 1990s with painter and friend Dawn Clements – but has been practicing yoga, bicycling and kayaks, all activities linked to her art.[ citation needed ]
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 New York at Bard College, [6] [7] and numerous locations in and around Albany.
Her work has been shown in many other venues around the United States, including San Francisco State University, [8] University of California, San Diego, [9] Berkshire Community College, the Walker Art Institute, [10] The Kelly Writers' House at the University of Pennsylvania, [11] Boise State University, and Naropa University as artist/teacher in residence. [12]
Internationally, her work has been performed or exhibited at Birkbeck College, the University of London, the 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] and Encuentro Internacional de Performance en Durango. [15]
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 the National Literature Centre of Luxembourg.[ citation needed ]
She has lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn since 2007 with her husband, poet Pierre Joris. She has two sons: colorist & producer Joseph Mastantuono and director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte.[ citation needed ]
Since 2011, Nicole Peyrafitte has been working on an open-ended series of live performances which brings together her interests, preoccupations, and practices. The KARSTIC-Action Paintings explore proprioception (sense of body position) and kinesthesia (sense of body movement) as meeting points between painting, poetry, voice, and improvised music. Following her intuition, Peyrafitte investigates the thin line between her consciousness and unconsciousness, with a strong desire to reveal the immediate soul of that moment. Most often the markings on canvas are done with the feet, either in hand-stand or head-stand; each of these events is unique. Her "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]
Occitan to English
French to English
English to French
Concerning her work, poet/performer Anne Waldman has written: "Nicole Peyrafitte is a brilliant and most original performer. Her vocalizations, her songs, her gestures are provocative: both stunningly beautiful and powerfully unnerving at times. She is the chthonic goddess come to tempt you, scare you, transform you. She is in the poetic lineage of Greek tragedy, Café Voltaire antics, of dada and surrealist play but with a post-modern, hip sensibility. I am transfixed when she's on stage." [68] Greg Haymes also reviewed her about "The Bi-Continental Chowder". [24]
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