André Éric Létourneau est un artiste intermédia qui pratique la performance concrète, la musique live-électronique, et la mise en place de situations construites. Sous le couvert de différents alias, notamment Benjamin Muon, il actif depuis le milieu des années 80: travailleur inter-unité, poète-action, compositeur électro-animal, membre fondateur de Diffusion Système Minuit du Québec et du CRCI, collaborateur au sein de différentes situations comme artiste comportemental, concepteur d'abris pour la firme abribec.qc.ca, facteur d'instruments, genderiste & flutiste anarcho-platiniste, acteur syndiqué, écrivain de rétrotextes, créature radiophonique, professeur d'architecture sono-temporelle, marionettiste biodynamique, auteur plagiaire, pierrot lubrique compulsionnel, activiste rizhomatique, commissaire de police de l’art, réalisateur de films autochtones désuets et d'émissions radiophoniques inanimées, méta-administrateur polysynesthésiste, voxainiste, père aux yeaux verts, travesti mystique, amant virtuel, indonésianniste, réceptionniste domestique, activiste, administrateur, agent de promotion pour Dieu, architectecte comportemental, illuminateur d'affaires et illusionniste bouddhiste. Depuis les années 80, il a présenté plus d'une cinquantaine de performances, concerts et installations dans plus d'une dizaine de pays.

 

André-Eric Létourneau is an intermedia artist practicing concrete performance-art, life specific situations, live-electronic music and performative projects for radio and mass-media. Since 1987, he  presented more that 50 performances, sound-performances or installations in 10 differents countries. He has been studying musical composition and theater with artists from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Indonesia, Roy Hart Theater and Zaj. He has been graduated from Universite du Quebec a Montreal with MFA in electronic arts. A monography of his work was published in 1997 in the Netherlands by AKI in Enschede as part of the visiting artist program and the award from "Pepinieres Europeennes". In 2000, he toured United States with the performance the trio "mine mine mine".  From 1999 to 2001 he has been a working for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), co-organising concerts,sound performances, recordings and radio-programs about new music, sound-poetry, audio-art, radio-art performance-art and electronic-art for alternative mass-media such as digital radio video broadcast and experimental Web streaming formats.  Eric Letourneau have been writing in many art magazines in Canada such as Inter, Parallelogramme and Esse and have been a collaborator for publications and catalogs about performance-art. He also teach history at Collège André-Grasset and persue a work as an independent curator. Since 1987, he have been involved andworking with many artists collective and artist run center, among them "Diffusion systeme Minuit du Quebec" and  "Centre de recherches culturelles interdisciplinaires" are still organising festivals and exchange programs. His first solo music CD, "Standard pour radiodiffusion", will be release by in 2003. He curated many projects involving life/art performances, Among them «Pas de traduction» for Fado in 2003 (www.performanceart.ca) and «Psychogéographie/Écosystèmes" (www.radio-canada.ca) in 2000.