Marie-Ève Levasseur is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Their work unfolds through various media such as video, installation, sculpture, digital printing, 3D animation as well as virtual and augmented reality. Levasseur is interested in the notion of process, hybridized becoming, metamorphosis and potential collaboration with the non-human. Their research draws from a feminist posthumanism and attempts to identify the place of the material and emotional body in our interpersonal communications through screens. Their projects are propositional, drawing on feminist science fiction and often involving speculative fabulation. This results in situations that are imagined or anchored in reality, accompanied by fictional devices, extensions for human and non-human beings that open a dialogue between species in order to reflect on our mutual dependencies.
Levasseur holds a Master's degree and a Meisterschüler from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany and has participated in various residency programs, including Schloss Solitude in Germany (2020), Sporobole and La Chambre Blanche in Canada (2022). Their installations have been exhibited internationally, notably in Berlin, Paris, Zürich, Hong Kong and London. The artist’s work is frequently supported by grants, including a subvention from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2021, and in 2022, from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.
Artist Talks / Conferences / Roundtables (selection)
2023
# BEECHER ART + TECHNOLOGY Lecture Series @Youngstown State University, USA
2022
# Glitch and Photography II: Bugs, Camouflage, and Insect Media @ Gothenburg University, Sweden
# What Being Could Be / Ce qu'être pourrait être @ Sight + Sound (Danser en attendant la fin du monde), Eastern Bloc, Montréal, CA
#rencontre avec le public @Galerie Antoine-Sirois, Sherbrooke, CA
# micro-conférence @ La chambre blanche, Québec, CA
2021
# Intraactivity: the Posthuman, Fabulation and Matter, International Symposium on Artistic Research, @ Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Konrad Wolf, DE
# Intentionality, Prophecy and Ancestry, in the framework of the online event: Magical Cohabitation, @Akademie Schloss Solitude, DE
2020
# Et si les machines s'étaient endormies : Poétique et Esthétique du Digital, Conference, @École supérieure d'Arts Plastiques de la ville de Monaco, FR
# Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine, An Artist Roundtable, online @Saloon Network
# Der optimierte Mensch, Artist Talk @Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, DE
2018
# Digitale Narrationen, Roundtable @Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, CH
2017
# The Next Conversation, Roundtable @Abtart Galerie, Stuttgart, DE
# Promises of Monsters, Artist Talk @Kunstverein Hildesheim, DE
2015
# Speculative Skin, Artist Talk @Kunstraum 53, Hildesheim, DE
# beziehungsweisen: Junge Kunst aus Leipzig, Roundtable @Kunstverein Konstanz, Constance, DE
2012
# Leipzig-Montréal: un tunnel transatlantique, Roundtable @Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame de Grâce, Montréal, CA
Prize / Scholarship / Grant / Residencies
2023
# Research and Creation grant, Canada Council for the Arts, CA
# Research and Exploration grant, CALQ (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec), CA
2022
# Creation grant, CALQ (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec), CA
# Metaverse residency @La Chambre Blanche, Québec, CA
# VR residency, @Sporobole, Sherbrooke, CA
2021
# Research and Creation grant, Canada Council for the Arts, CA
2020
# Grant from Akademie Schloss Solitude for a Web Residency, DE
# Grant from the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (Saxony), Arbeitsstipendium, DE
# Grant from the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (Saxony), Denkzeit-Stipendium, DE
# BOZARlab Prize @NOVAXX, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE
2019
# Grant for the production of a catalogue from the Leipzig Ministry of Culture, DE
# Grant from the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation, DE
2018
# Grant Künstlergut Prösitz for a sculpture residency in Saxony, DE
# Acknowledgement for the Paradigma Blickwechsel Art Prize Leipzig, DE
# Acknowledgement for Lichtfest Leipzig 2019, Halle 14, DE
2011 - 2016
# Scholarship of the Rosa-Luxemburg Fundation, DE
2012
# DAAD-Prize for outstanding achievement, foreign art students, DE
Collection and distribution
2018
# n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
# Videos An Inverted System to Feel (your shared agenda) and swiping compressed filtered love (et enfin, permettre l’incontrôlable) distributed by Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Montréal, Canada