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M:ST 2 Artists
HE SEARCHES FOR
/ John Murchie (Sackville,
NB)
LOCATION: Nickle Arts Museum,
University of Calgary
April 8 / 2003
7:00 PM
John Murchie's, He Searches For – the adventures of the boy known throughout the world as Big Boy – is a tragic comedy. The performance is a reading. It is the telling of a tale – spontaneous, unedited documentation of the escapades of Big Boy – a novel thirty chapters in length, written a chapter a day soon after Big Boy's conception. Spotlit, in a darkened gallery, accompanied by between-chapter interludes on the harmonium, John performs the tale over the period of an hour with an intermission. Big Boy's search for love and happiness is an indiscriminate, trifling and random journey exploring the boundaries between the stage and everything else.
John Murchie is an independent curator, writer, editor, visual artist and cook from Upper Sackville, New Brunswick.
THE ELASTIC TEST PROJECT
/ Rozalinda Borcila and
Robert Lawrence (Tampa, FL)
LOCATION: Nickle Arts Museum,
University of Calgary
April 11 / 2003
7:00 PM
The simple and
irrational notion that an "elastic test" can objectively discern the good
moral character of a non-Western foreigner is the premise for Rozalinda
Borcila and Robert Lawrence's long-term series of live and web-cast performances.
This work parallels the processes of the foreigner attempting to become
citizen. Who is desirable, who fits and why: who fails to pass the desirability
test and why? It is left up to the courts – the institution – to quantify
this subjectivity. In all seriousness, through parody, the performance
reveals and examines the unseen – the hidden – within immigration procedures
and policies. Borcila and Robert will be here for a week of workshopping
with local participants developing a location specific elastic test/performance.
In this work they will examine 'naturalization' not only in the national
context but, in the peculiarities of the local scene as well.
Rozalinda Borcila is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida: Performance Art, Installation, and is the Head of the 3-D area.
Robert Lawrence is the Director of Electronic Media Program in the Art Department at the University of South Florida.
Both have shown exhibited extensively at the international level, recently performing a version of the elastictest in South Africa.
WORKSHOP
/ Rozalinda Borcila and Robert Lawrence (Tampa, FL)
LOCATION: Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary
April 8+10 / 2003
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
P.O. Box 22056 Bankers Hall R.P.O, Calgary, AB CA T2P 5G7
PH. 403.837.6678 email: info@mstfestival.org