upstate medical university center for bioethics and humanities

Featured Artist

Every few months we will feature the work of an artist who has been published in The Healing Muse. Our current featured artist is Nicole Peyrafitte.

Artist's Bio

French Pyrenean-born Nicole Peyrafitte is a performance artist, singer, poet and painter. She draws on her eclectic heritage to paint, film and perform songs ranging from French cabaret to jazz standards and contemporary poetry. Her work is often integrated into multimedia stagings based on her visual work and writings. Her projects have been performed internationally, including "The Bi-Continental Chowder/Garbure Transcontinentale"—a multi-media performance that includes the onstage preparation and cooking of a soup shared, as a finale, with the audience. Her work addresses the experiences of negotiating her identity across two continents and four languages.

About the Cantatas

Each drawing of this on-going series is based on a given Bach Cantata and on morphic perspectives of pelvic bones. Both the drawings and the performance consist of personal derivations generated simultaneously by anatomical/medical material on the pelvic area.

The Cantatas were also the centerpiece of the performance piece "Quodlibet". This piece was named after Bach's work "Quodlibet" BWV524. This title—not given by Bach—relates to the mixture of texts of various provenance, and part of a secular piece that might have been written for a Bach family gathering—possibly a family wedding.

For more information about Nicole's work, please visit her website at http://www.nicolepeyrafitte.com


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