Marie-Eve Levasseur is a Canadian artist living between Tiohtà:ke / Montréal and Leipzig. Her work deals with intimacy, interactions, non-human ecosystems, mediating devices as extensions and perception of language or images through screens. Using diverse forms and techniques like video, installation, sculpture, prints, 3D animation and Augmented Reality, she questions the proximity of technological and organic surfaces in a posthuman context as well as our perception of device-mediated content, using feminist science fiction as inspiration.
Her projects use speculative fabulation; imagined situations with fictive devices, extensions for human and non-human beings that open a cross-species dialogue in order to reflect upon the way we get along in the system we live in. Her work is multidisciplinary and allows a continuous learning of new techniques, where DIY and open source become part of her artistic posture.
Her works have been shown in many group exhibitions in Montreal, Berlin, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Zurich. In 2020, she receives a research and creation grant from the KdFS (Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen), and in 2021, from the Canada Council for the Arts.
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
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