Artist / Performer / Dancer
The beginnings of Maxime Blériot’s artistic identity take place in Montreal. During his training at the École Nationale de Cirque de Montréal, he discovered performance art through Peter James, who shared his teachings with him. It was on the basis of these that he began working on a form of his own, situated between the body and the object. A practice in which self-expression is brought to light by the plastic object on the periphery: an encounter at the very heart of sensation.
At each performance he attempts to redefine the performative space he embodies; at the twilight of an art as we know it, at the dawn of a green art to which he tends and which does not yet exist.
Like a dog returning to its vomit, he likes to think of his practice as a Caput-Mortuum: a chemical term that defines a residue of operations from which no benefit was thought possible. It is with the boldest of fists and the most delicate of fingers that he experiments as authentically as possible with this breach of art; the result of a concentrated outpouring of life.
At Le Générateur, Maxime Blériot performs in the new creation Dégorger à basse pression by artist-performer duo Tristan Robquin & Fabio Deronzier, premiering on April 10, 2025.