BIO and CV
micheline durocher is a Montreal artist currently working in photo-based media and video.
Contact info and distribution of her videos info@michelinedurocher.com
BIO
Micheline Durocher is a visual artist and film-maker currently residing in Montreal. She was born in Canada. In 2004, she began filming with 8mm video format and completed “Syncope” her first experimental work. Her videos focus on action and performance. The procedure that underlies her work consists of an exploration of the performing body in order to create an interface of fictional, subjective elements where Durocher is the subject, model, actor-artist. Her portraits diverge at times into absurd humour, awkwardness, often skirting voyeurism and bemused failures.
Abridged CV
- Independent videographer, director, producer, cameraperson, and editor.
- Currently teaches Photography, darkroom / digital, at Bishop’s University.
- info@michelinedurocher.com
VIDEO FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS & events
2012
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. “Lapse”, April 20-21, West Virginia, USA.
Mecal Film Festival, “Lapse”, 12-29 April , Barcelona, Spain.
Red Dawns Festival, Queer and Feminist Video, “Lapse”, March 7-11, Ljubljana.
The Inevitable, 222Lodge Extern, “Doppelganger”, January 27, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
FONLAD festival, “Daily routine / Hyperform”, a program curated by Margarita Stavraki, “Lapse”, April 20, House of the Arts, Coimbra, Portugal.
2011
Vertigo, 1st Festival of vertical film and video, “Doppelganger”‘ 10-11 december,Novi Sad, Serbia.
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, USA.
Arizona Underground Film Festival, Sept. 16-24th, Tucson, USA.
Optica Film Festival, Sept. 16-18th, Madrid, Spain.
Pornography and it’s Discontents, MisAlt series, July 28th, San Francisco, USA.
Northside DIY Filmmaking Competition, UnionDocs, June 16-19, Brooklyn, USA.
Art/artifice: Weird Women and Their DIY Doppelgangers, Women’s Day screening, MUFF in collaboration with La Centrale and cinéma Blue Sunshine, 8 march, Montreal, Canada.
Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece, July 7-9.
Oboro/Laoun, vitrine, Montreal, Canada, 28 october-11november.
2010
Les rendez-vous du cinema québécois, Montreal, Canada.
International Festival of Film & Culture -”12th International
Panorama” at Patras, Greece
Façade Video Festival, October 5-10, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Spooky Film Festival, Washington DC, USA
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne Australia.
FF600, the 6th Short Film Festival, Ljubjiana, Slovenia.
Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria.
2009
Les rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal, Canada.
M.U.F.F., Montréal, Canada.
Montreal Science Centre/ Le Centre des Science de Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
2008
Les rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal, Canada.
Science and Technology Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Canada.
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada.
2007
Les rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal, Canada.
Images, Toronto, Canada.
FlashFlood, Tucson, Arizona, USA
MUFF, Montreal, Canada.
Spark Video Syracuse, Syracuse, New York, USA
Tabor Film Festival, Gornja Stubica, Croatia.
Vox Feminae Fest, Zagreb, Croatia.
LadyFest, Toronto,Canada.
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia.
Midi Kombat, Vjing for Natural Twenties, Sala Rossa, Montreal, Canada.
Antimatter Film and Video Festival, Victoria, Canada.
2006
Antimatter Film and Video Festival, Victoria, Canada.
M.U.F.F. , Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Canada.
Out Video, 3rd International Videoart Festival in public places, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Riazan’, Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Yaroslavl’, Yekaterinburg and Surgut, Russia.
2005
“Canzine”, Broken Pencil, Hotel Galdstone, Toronto, Canada.
‘motion, Feminist Film Festival, The ( ) collective, Lethbridge, Canada.
“Bedrooms, Rooftops and Sidewalks”, a public film screening, Curator: Doria Cheney, Montréal, Canada.
“Pixel Dance Video Festival”, Thalassa, Greece.
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS IN ART GALLERIES
2004
“Blush”, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada.
2003
“Petites leçons de lecture“, Centre Vu, Québec, Canada.
“Reading lessons “, Gallery 44,Vitrines, Toronto, Canada.
2001
Portraits, galerie Sagamie, Alma, Canada.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS IN ART GALLERIES
2012
The Sex Show, February 8-19, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada.
2010
Galerie La Centrale Powerhouse, video screening in collaboration with MUFF, Montreal, Canada,
2009
Sagamie, l’imprimé numérique en art contemporain, Maison de la culture Côte des Neiges, Montréal, Canada.
2008
Monobandes, Video Screening, Gallery Les Territoires, Montreal, Canada.
EJECT 2 – Segundo Festival de Videoperformance de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.
2007
Gallery Lambdon, Video Screening, Sarnia, Canada
312 OnScreen, SWGC Art Gallery, video screening, Memorial University, Corner Brook, Canada.
‘Rip current’, Video Screening, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada.
Jerkin Paradise, Video Screening, Spark Video Canada, Forest City Gallery, London, Canada.
2006
312 OnScreen, SWGC Art Gallery, Video Screening, Memorial University, Sir Wilfred Grenfeld College, Corner Brook, Canada.
Prescriptions and Diagnosticians, video screening, Spark Video, Forest City Gallery, London, Canada.
2003
Transmission, Gallery McClure, Westmount, Canada.
Undo, digital prints produced at the Sagamie Center, Expression, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada.
Unexpected Encounters, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada.
2002
Unexpected Encounters, Aceart Inc., Winnipeg. Canada.
Unexpected Encounters, Warc, Toronto, Canada.
Unexpected Encounters, AKA Saskatoon, Canada.
REVIEWS / ARTICLES
2011
Gladstone Valerie, Experimental Film the Focus at Madrid Festival, New York Times, In Transit – A Guide to Intelligent Travel, September 7, 2011, Online publication, New York City, USA
2003 ‘
Manif d’info au CNE, La créativité éclate dans chaque oeuvre ‘, by Denise Pelletier, Le quotidien, Jonquière, december 29,Canada.
2002
”Variations thématiques”, by : Mylène Crete, La Liberté, Septembre 19-25, 2002, p. 20
“Unexpected Encounter”, by: Susan Turner, Critical distance, vol. 8:5, AceArt Inc. Winnipeg, Canada.
“Unexpected delights, group exhibition explores communication gaps”, by Kelly Martino, The Uptown, October, Winnipeg, Canada.
2001
‘Micheline Durocher vous en met plein… la bouche’, Progrès-dimanche, Alma, 23 september, Canada.
CATALOGUES / BROCHURES / BOOKS
2011
Vertigo, 1st Festival of vertical film and video, 10-11 december,Novi Sad, Serbia.
2010
FF600, the 6th Short Film Festival, Ljubjiana, Slovenia.
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne Australia.
2009
Les Rendez-vous du cinema québécois, festival programming catalogue, Montréal, Canada
2008
L’image numérique en art contemporain, Sagamie, Trois-Rivières, Canada
Les Rendez-vous du cinema québécois, festival catalogue, Montréal, Canada
Antimatter, Festival Catalogue, Victoria, Canada.
2007
Matrix magazine, Issue 78, Special DVD included with videos, Montreal, Canada.
Antimatter Film and Video Festival, festival, programming catalogue, Victoria, Canada.
Les Rendez-vous du cinema québécois, programming catalogue, Montréal, Canada.
Sydney Underground Film Festival, programming catalogue, Sydney Australia.
Images 20, Toronto, Canada.
Gallery Lambdon, video programming catalogue, Sarnia, Canada.
Sagamie, L’imprimé numérique en art contemporain, exhibition catalogue. Authors: auteur: Carol Dallaire., Élène Tremblay, Hervé Fischer, Louise Poissant, Michael La Chance, Ollivier Dyens, Pierre Robert, Suzanne Leblanc., Sylvain Campeau, Valérie Lamontagne. Artists: Adad Hannah, Alain Paiement, Ana Rewakowicz, André Willot., Annie Baillargeon, Ariane Lord, Bettina Hoffmann, Carl Bouchard, Carl Trahan, Catherine Bodmer, Catherine Sylvain, Chloé Lefebvre, C�sar Sa�z, David Moore, Diane Borsato, François Morelli, Frédéric Laforge, Frédéric Lavoie, Gennaro De Pasquale, Guy Blackburn, Gwena�l Bélanger, Isabelle Hayeur, Ivan Binet, Jocelyn Philibert, Josée Pellerin, Kim Waldron, Kinga Araya, Louis Fortier, Manon De Pauw, Marcel Blouin, Marie-Suzanane D�silets, Mario Duchesneau, Maryse Larivi�re, Mathieu Beauséjour, Matthieu Brouillard, Michel de Broin, Micheline Durocher, Nathalie Bujold, Nathalie Grimard, Pascal Grandmaison, Patrice Duchesne, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, S�bastien Cliche, Sophie Bélair-Clément, Sophie Castonguay, Sylvain Bouthillette, Sylvette Babin, Sylvie Cotton, Sylvie Lalibert�, Thomas Corriveau, Undo. Editions Le Sabord, 197 pages.
2003
micheline durocher/karen spencer, gallery 44. exhibition pamphlet.
Gallery 44 year 2002-2003 catalogue of exhibitions, authors: Amy Satterthwaite, Christine Walde., David Donald, F. Leslie Thompson, Jeremy Todd, Katy McCormick, Lisanne Nadeau, Sara Angelucci, Viviane Paradis artists: Alex Homanchuk, Balint Zsako., Bertrand Carrière, Betsy Coulter, Céline Messier, Colwyn Griffith, Dianne Bos, Edwin Jager, Emily Muir, Ernie Kroeger, Ève Cadieux, Eve K. Tremblay, Frances Key, Guilherme Maranhao, Jakub Dolejs, Jamie Dolinko, Julie Andreyev, Karen Spencer, Kim Waldron, Michel De Brouin, Micheline Durocher, Nicholas Pye, Nicola Woods, Patrick Altman, Raymonde April, Ritian Lee, Tashia Friesen, Thomas Kneub�hler, Toni Latour, Vid Ingelevics
Paper Wait 5, authors: Christopher Olson, Leah Janzen, Mariianne Mays, Risa Horowitz, Susan Turner. artists: Alissa York., Christina Horeau, Co-op collective, Cyndra MacDowall, Gail Bourgeois, Hadley Howes, Helene Dyck, Jocelyn Robert, Marie-Christine Simard, Maxwell Stephens, Micheline Durocher, Ace Art Inc., 65 pages.
Undo, Infographies d’art produites au Centre Sagamie, Expression Gallery, St-Hyacinthe, Canada. Exhibition pamphlet.
AWARDS
Finalist, Oboro / Georges Laoun Prize for Short video, Montreal, Canada. 2011
Travel grant, Conseil des Arts et lettres du Québec 2008
Official Selection at the Sydney Underground Film Festival, Lapse, Australia, 2007
The Cecil M. Buller Bursary, Visual Arts Center, Westmount, Canada, 1999
Canada Multiculturalism, Publishing and editing programme, Ottawa, 1998
Soutient à la pratique, Conseil des Arts et lettres du Québec, 1997, 1993
Perfectionnement, Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec 1993
Ressources Techniques, Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec, 1992, 1990
Project grant, short term, Canada Council, 1991
COLLECTIONS
Iota Film and Video Library and Study Centre, Culver City, California,USA
Video Library P’Silo, Marseille, France
Alcan, Montréal, Canada.
Alliance Mutuelle-Vie, Montréal, Canada.
Bibliothèque des arts, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
Canada council, Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada.
Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec, Prêt d’oeuvre d’art, Québec, Canada.
National library of Québec , Quebec, Canada.
National library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
RESIDENCIES
Sagamie, Alma, Canada (photo-digital residency)
Sagamie, Alma, Canada. 2001 (photo-digital residency)
Engramme, Quebec, Canada. (photo-etching, artist book residency)
Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, Canada. (photo-etching residency)
Open Studio, Toronto, Canada. (etching and Japanese woodcut residency)
ACTIVITIES: ARTIST TALKS, JURIES, PANELS, DOCUMENTARY/REPORTAGE VIDEOS
2010
Outdoor Market 2010, (4min. 39 sec.) reportage video filmed on location in Sweden, for Strange Ambition, Canada.
Rolf’s Kitchen, (3min. 06sec.) reportage video filmed on location in Sweden, for Strange Ambition, Canada.
Nomadic Forest-The documentary, (15min.) documentary video of the exhibition, for the Atelier de l’Ile artist run centre, Canada.
Jokamiehenoikeus Everyman’s right, (2min 30 sec.), reportage video filmed on location in Finland, for Strange Ambition, Canada.
2008
Foret Nomade, (10 min.), video for exhibition, Atelier de l’Ile artist run centre, Canada.
2007
Jury member, Residency programs, Atelier de l’Ile, Val-David, Canada
Panel discussion Images Video Festival, Toronto, Canada. With Jessica Joy, Dena DeCola & Karin E Wandner, Emily Very Duke & Cooper Battersby, Andrea Cooper. The artists discuss capabilities of performance based work to express loss, grief and struggle via the lens of video. Moderated by Deirdre Logue.
2006
Jury member, Voir Grand, Printmaking and Photo digital works, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Canada.
Jury member, Residency programs, Atelier de l’Ile, Val David, Canada.
2004
Artist talk, School of Art, Ottawa Ottawa, Canada.
2003
Jury member for annual gallery programming, McClure Gallery, Visual arts Centre, Westmount, Canada.
2001
Jury member for Jeune@Laurentides, Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Palais, St-Jérôme, Canada.
Jury member for special projects, Praxis Art contemporain, Ste-Thérèse, Canada.
2000
Jury member, annual gallery programming, Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Palais, St-Jérôme, Canada.
EDUCATION
1997 Master in the Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
