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Winter 2022

 

Rendez-vous de la Francophonie Festival

Interactive performance Échanges Thermiques presented at the festival, in Fish Lake Road area.

 

Arctic Circle Retreat

One week art residency at Eagle Plains Hotel, 35 km from the arctic circle. Research and development of Échanges Thermiques artwork. See also Aurore Boréale February 10th 2022 edition.

 

Culinary Journalism

Publication of newspaper articles about culinary personalities in the French community of Yukon, see bimonthly newspaper Aurore Boréale.

 

Fall 2021

 

Food Design Online Course

Weekly classes with food designer Marije Vogelzang, on various topics surrounding food consumption and production in an artistic context: psychology, culture, history, future, ...

 

Theater in the Bush festival

Interactive performance "Call of the Wild" presented over the course of two nights in the forest in front of a moving audience.

 

Publication of short text Manger sauvage

Picked for The Yukon Conversation Society poetry group's collection of texts from Yukon-based authors. See the booklet titled À l'ère des broken windshields.

 

Cafés-rencontres

Organization of monthly themed community meals at the Centre de la francophonie.

 

Summer 2021

 

Food Design Online Course

Weekly classes with food designer Marije Vogelzang, on various topics surrounding food consumption and production in an artistic context: psychology, culture, history, future, ...

 

Created at the Canyon Festival

"Eat Art in the Klondike" performed outdoor at Created at the Canyon 2021. Presented in a historical setting at Canyon City and then in restrospective at the Yukon Arts Center of Whitehorse.

 

Performance "Eat Art in Paradise"

Outdoor food event postponed.

 

Winter 2021

 

Performance "Eat Art and Desire"

On February 14th, a burlesque banquet took place at the infamous Paddy's Juke Joint in Whitehorse. Food and desire mixed well in front of an enthusiastic audience.

 

Performance "Bacon and Leggs"

What would happen if you could visit your own Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole? Strange food is served there! The 4-hour performative brunch transported the audience far from the capital of the north.

 

Fall 2020

 

Rushing to the Gold: Living One Year in the Klondike

A new exciting adventure in Northern Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: Yukon, a well-known region during the Gold Rush era. This land of opportunity is full of willing spectators and a fertile ground for Eat Art experiments.

 

Introduction to Eat Art Supper

First Eat Art performance in an intimate setting in the city of Whitehorse, Yukon.

 

Caricatures for Aurore Boréale newspaper

Drawn for the French Yukon-based newspaper Aurore Boréale.

 

Winter 2020

 

"Living with Ataxia", an online exhibit at Gham & Dafe Gallery

The multimedia exhibition starring Magdalena is transformed into a virtual exhibit at the last minute due to COVID-19.

 

Fall 2019

 

Video-installation project with Magdalena Guzman

Magdalena is a young Montreal actress living with a condition called Ataxia, a degenerative nervous system disease that affects movement coordination. She reached out to me to produce a documentary on her desire to live her life to the fullest potential.

 

Collaboration with chemical puppeteer Karina Bleau

A call to accompany movement researcher, performer, and chemical puppeteer Karina Bleau. As she seeks to incorporate more edible material in her performance, Karina asked Annie to join her team for the next event on October 19th 2019 in Bibliothèque Multiculturelle in Laval. 

 

Joining the studio collective La Pelouse in Le Plateau for 2019-2020

A new workplace has been found for the year 2019-2020 in Montreal, situated in the industrial building of Bordeaux street in Le Plateau neighbourhood in Montreal. A few projects are simmering on the creative stove at the moment.

 

Summer 2019

 

Guest at Peephole Podcast, by Anis Azzoug

Anis Azzoug interviews Annie on her medium and other themes in a series of radio conferences.

 

Another Year: Creative Culinary Residency in the Forests of Western Canada

Another year to create surprising tasty meals in the middle of nowhere with Canadians from all over the country. Same kitchen on wheels in the middle of a deserted region, 60 hungry people to taste the creations and a big budget for new material every 5 days for 3 months. The relations intrinsic to a busy kitchen were under the microscope this year. The artist had a great residency with Folklore Contracting from May 2019 to early August 2019. 

 

Winter 2019

 

Collaboration with EAT ART collective

Co-creation of a series of four performances exploring themes of sustainability, food, and animals with EAT ART collective based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

 

"Boxing Trax", an art performance with a dog

The artist explores and unveils the intricacies of her relationship with her dog Trax. The performance took place at Stellwerk Gallery in a railway station of Kassel, Germany on April 13th.

 

Fall 2018

 

A new start in the Heimat (Homeland) of Eat Art: Germany

On September 12th, the artist and her dog arrived in Kassel, a city at the center of Germany known for its documenta art festival held every five years since 1955. In this beautiful city, Annie aims to create links with other European Eat Art communities, learn to read and speak the mother tongue of Eat Art (German), and visit the city of Düsseldorf where this artistic movement was born.

 

Summer 2018

 

Creative Culinary Residency in the Forests of Western Canada

A kitchen on wheels in the middle of a deserted region, 60 hungry people to taste the creations and a big budget for new material every 5 days for 3 months. And lots and lots of silence and time to imagine. The artist had a great residency with Folklore Contracting from May 2018 to August 2018.

 

Winter 2018

 

Staircase Visual Art Exhibit

A museal ascending experience; come and visit the exhibit in Montreal at 5054 rue Chabot in Le Plateau neighbourhood (Laurier metro station). Ring the door bell and encounter artist Annie Maheux's visual 2D works.

 

Backpack Puppet company has visited Northern Canada, South Africa, and Senegal

Our company Backpack Puppet co-founded with Camille Banville visited the two hemispheres simultaneously during Winter 2018. In Africa and in the north of Canada, we worked with children of different cultures and brought them together via media common in puppetry workshops.

 

Fall 2017

 

Creation of the MTL Eat Art Collective

Our new collective with Arturo Ayala, creative chef in Montreal, is looking for collaborators!!

The MTL Eat Art Collective has been created by creative culinary professionals and food-art professionals based in Montreal, Canada, as a call for freedom of expression.

Freed of dominant control of the market and pressure of profit-making, this group wants to put forward the creative aspect of food and the real people behind its preparation and production.

 

Summer 2017

 

Montreal Residency: 30-days Eat Art performance marathon in July 2017

Individual and collective pieces created by Annie around the city of Montreal and Laval.
 

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