Nicole Peyrafitte

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Nicole Peyrafitte
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Peyrafitte in 2018
Born (1960-06-18) June 18, 1960 (age 64)
Bagnères-de-Luchon, French Pyrenees, France
OccupationMultidisciplinary Artist
LanguageFrench, English, Spanish, Occitan
NationalityFrench and American
GenrePoetry & Performance Arts / Culinary Arts / Visual Arts
Spouse Pierre Joris
ChildrenJoseph Mastantuono and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Website
nicolepeyrafitte.com

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.

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Biography

Early 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.[ citation needed ] Her father was Jean Peyrafitte Fr (1922-2017), who represented Haute-Garonne in the Pyrenees in the French Fifth Republic (1989-1998).

Move to United States and early career

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 ]

Career

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 ]

Personal life

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 ]

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 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]

Karstic-Action Vote by Nicole Peyrafitte Karstic-Action Vote by Nicole Peyrafitte.jpg
Karstic-Action Vote by Nicole Peyrafitte

Selected Performances and Collaborations

Karstic Shelter by Nicole Peyrafitte and Pierre Joris (Domopoetic Works). Karstic Shelter Nicole Peyrafitte Pierre Joris.jpg
Karstic Shelter by Nicole Peyrafitte and Pierre Joris (Domopoetic Works).

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Films & videos

Be Like Water : a Karstic -Action live streamed for The Poetry Project 48th Annual Marathon on January 1st 2022 Be Like Water Karstic -Action.jpg
Be Like Water : a Karstic -Action live streamed for The Poetry Project 48th Annual Marathon on January 1st 2022

Publications

Books and Chapbooks

Magazine & Anthologies Publications

Translations

Occitan to English

French to English

English to French

Discography

Awards and honors

Reviews

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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