Artist / Performer / Dancer
The son of a dancer mother and a musician father, Tristan Robquin grew up in the world of art and movement.
After practicing several disciplines such as contemporary dance, ballet, hip-hop and acrobatics, he devoted himself to the circus arts. At the École Nationale de Cirque de Montréal, he met Peter James, a leading figure in Montreal performance and experimental art, who took him under his wing and made him his disciple. In line with his teachings, Tristan Robquin develops a circo-performative aesthetic in which the body and its raw movement are at the center of his approach.
Today, six years after the start of his initiation, he is trying to distance himself from the artistic legacy he has received in order to develop new aesthetics, new lines of research and new conceptions. This is why he is seeking to establish a collaboration with the world of visual art, which could be the origin of a new form of his practice. Tristan Robquin is at that pivotal post-initiation period when he seeks to break out of Art by Art.
His entry into the performative field is closely linked to Fabio Deronzier (artist, performer, set designer), with whom he has been working since 2015 in the form of videos, performances and curations around aesthetic experience where the word experience is taken, Roland Barthes would have said, to “degree zero”. Together, they work on forms of representation that can be defined as radical, experimental performance, on the border of the extreme, mainly on the limits of the performing body and the shortening of distances between the arts and civil life. An aesthetic that, unlike great cinematic special effects, seeks to create evanescent micro-events that exacerbate the tension of expectation in the spectator. This means of performance implies privileging the perception of physical, optical, sonic and olfactory phenomena over the refocusing and fragmentation of time. Conceived as a momentary, mobile and changeable arrangement, their performances are almost always at the limit of what is possible for their bodies and their role as artists.
With Fabio Deronzier, he forms a high-voltage performance duo built around experimentation, where visual and performing arts meet to better challenge their physical and artistic limits.
Their new creation Disgorging at low pressure premieres on April 10, 2025 at Le Générateur.
