Artists

The Nihilist Spasm Band Title: NIHILIST SPASM BAND Artist: John Boyle, John Clement, William Exley, Murray Favro, and Art Pratten, Tim Glasgow and Aya Ohinshi (London, ON) Dates: 8:30 pm October 21, CSIF, Calgary; and 8 pm October 22, Tongue and Groove, Lethbridge. Presented by: SAAG, CSIF Nature of Event: Audio performances Nihilist Spasm Band Photo credit Tim Glasgow Noted as the “worlds first noise band,” and progenitors of the “No Music Festivals,” the Nihilist Spasm Band is an internationally acclaimed sound and audio group. Presented as part of the M:ST 3 Performative Audio Series the NSB will import their particular brand of sound exploration to the M:ST 3 Festival playing venues in Calgary and Lethbridge. Utilizing self-designed and constructed amplified instruments the NSB specializes in ensemble sound experimentation. John B. Boyle currently lives in Peterborough and has been a full time professional artist since 1968. His painted works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Boyle has performed extensively with leading international noise and electronic musicians. In the NSB he is an “Ayleresque virtuoso of the kazoo” with digital delay and ring modulator, and also plays thumb piano and percussion. John Clement was born in Toronto and currently lives in London, Ontario, where he works as a family physician, and races motorcycles. In the NSB he plays percussion, and modified electric guitars of his own design. top

William A. Exley is a London, Ontario, based orator, performer, and outspoken member of the Nihilist Party of Canada. In the NSB he is the vocalist, plays the Theremin and various found instruments including his wife Norma's cooking pot with marbles, pop cans and tricycle parts. Murray Favro lives in London, Ontario, where he works as one of Canada's leading sculptors. Favro has designed and built many guitars that are prized as both art objects and outstanding musical instruments. In the NSB he concentrates on playing guitar with occasional forays into percussion. Art Pratten resides in London, Ontario. In the NSB he originally played kazoos of his own design, but later invented a succession of exquisite violin-like instruments played with the bow under the name Pratt-a-various. Other instruments include the guitar, a "water pipe" electronic wind instrument, and a self designed dulcimer-like instrument. Tim Glasgow was born in Southwestern Ontario. He is a former guitarist with various rock bands and is an accomplished and respected sound technician. He has played with the Nihilist Spasm Band frequently since 1998, including on tours to New York and venues in Ontario. Aya Ohnishi was born in Kyoto, Japan and formed the all women group “Sekiri,” in 1982. She has played and toured extensively with the NSB ever since and appeared in all of the No Music Festivals, playing kazoo as well as drums with the band.

One Night Only Title: ONE NIGHT ONLY: MOVING IN Artist: One Night Only, Felipe Diaz, Anna Scott, Blair Fornwald, Tanis Keiner (Regina, SK) Dates: The New Gallery, 516 D 9th Ave. SW, October 10th to the 15th. Closing Reception October 15. Presented by: The New Gallery Nature of Event: performance One Night Only will be presenting work that explores the notion of making oneself “at home” in a new residence and a new community. In One Night Only: Moving In, the artists offer an antidote for the overwhelming sense of alienation that can exist in the contemporary urban environment. The work attempts to integrate individuals within the communities that form in shared living spaces. “Alienation within contemporary urban centres is a product of the increasing separation between the individual and the domestic setting.

Calgary, like most North American cities, is subject to the mass marketing strategies of corporate culture. As a result, the identification of the self within the domestic sphere is removed from identification strategies that exist along other axis, such as family, or culture.” ONO’s performance attempts to “reassert the identities of the individuals within the domestic sphere. Each day, for a week, we will invite the public into our temporary living space, where we will modify and change the space, in an attempt to define our roles within it. We will both alter the space and adapt to it, making it better suited to our needs, and also conform to its limitations. As we do so each member of the collective will inevitably establish a dialogue with the others, a dialogue that is, at times, constructive and cooperative, other times, destructive and counterproductive. As we reinvent the space, we will also be negotiating and renegotiating our roles both in the domestic sphere and, ultimately, in the larger community of Calgary.” One Night Only is a Regina-based performance art collective whose work examines social and political issues through site-specific works. Working together in a spirit of collaboration, the members of One Night Only create individual actions that act and react with each other. Shared thematic elements and physical proximity unite the performance, creating layers of meaning through the dialogue formed within the group. One Night Only consists of artists Felipe Diaz, Blair Fornwald, Tanis Keiner and Anna Scott. They have presented performances across Canada, including Vancouver's LIVE festival (2003), Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre in Regina (2003 and 2004), Fado Performance in Toronto (2004) and Struts Gallery in Sackville, NB (2004). top

Andrew J. Paterson Title: MONO LOGICAL Artist: Andrew James Paterson (Toronto, ON) Dates and Venue: 8:00 pm, October 24, Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre, Alberta College of Art & Design Presented by: Alberta College of Art & Design Nature of Event: performance Andrew J. Paterson Cop image courtesty of the artist

MONO LOGICAL is an “interdisciplinary performative/cinematic and videographic collage.” A series of seven monologues, plus clips from Paterson’s narrative and performance-based video works (from the early eighties up until the early nineties), will be presented in tandem with his shorter digital new-media works and his recent Super-8 tone poems. Paterson’s media works, tapes, and films combine photographic tracking shots, montages of mediated found images, and voice-over discourses concerning urban space, global economics, and sexual possibilities. MONO LOGICAL plays on the tensions between language intended to be communicative and language that isn’t. An academic, student, poet, policeman, entrepreneur, musician, and cleric all either lecture or perform. Their theatrical trappings might beg their sincerity, but their orations are to be taken very seriously indeed. MONO LOGICAL promises to throw curve balls and suggest parallel U-turns. These performative dispatches contain their own various logics, and audiences will be encouraged to make their own associations and perhaps even draw their own conclusions. Paterson will be available for creative interrogation after the programme. Andrew Paterson is a Toronto based inter-disciplinary artist, working with video, live performance, original text, film, and music. Paterson is also a published author and editor, who sees his multidisciplinary activities as existing parallel to his media-art practice. top

Title: technologies and bodies: performative spaces Panel Moderator: Anita Ponton (UK) Panelists: Minerva Cuevas (Mexico) and Andrew Paterson (Toronto) Dates and Venue: October 22, 2005, 1 pm Stanford Perrot Lecture Theatre, Alberta College of Art & Design Presented by: Alberta College of Art & Design Nature of Event: panel discussion, Performative Audio Series In conjunction with the VIRTUAL BODIES workshop (October 17 - 28), Anita Ponton will moderate the panel discussion technologies and bodies: performative spaces. Questions raised will include: How does the use of technology within performance art affect concepts of presence and exchange? How is our experience of space and time altered through technological mediation, and how does the body (both in performance and audience) respond to this? How are narrative, history and memory refigured? How do digital media and virtual reality shift conventional notions of physicality and representation? How do technologies change possibilities for interaction within public, social and cyber space? How are the boundaries of performative space and agency redefined? top

scum de terre Title: SQUEAKS FOREVER TOUR Artist: scum de terre (Calgary, AB) Dates and Venue: 7 pm, October 8, EMMEDIA, Calgary; 8 pm, October 15 Tongue and Groove, Lethbridge; 8 pm, October 21, CSIF, Calgary; and 8:30 pm, October 29, The Walter Phillips Gallery (The Banff Centre), Banff. Presented by: EMMEDIA, CSIF, SAAG, The Walter Phillips Gallery Nature of Event: audio performance. Artist's site - http://members.shaw.ca/scumdeterre/ scum de terre "Performance at Birds and Stone" photography Cody Oliver, Legendary performative free improv group scum de terre is back on the road this fall with an entirely new perspective of their antics. “We’re back with a mission,” says scum. “It’s an appropriate time to reintroduce good, uplifting, positive free improvised music and performative actions.” scum de terre will be presenting performances at various venues during the M:ST 3 Festival as part of their long awaited Calgary World Tour. scum de terre’s Squeaks Forever show will deliver an explosive free improv performative action show. “We can’t stand being called ‘lawn cutters’ and we have great difficulty with ‘hair band’ references,” says scum. “We’re a free improvising performative band. We deliver emotionally charged stuff. The only comparison we have with lawn cutting is that we’re loud (and soft)...VERY loud (and soft).” The launch of this very special concert tour will be marked by the release of a new sound craftily sculpted by the members of scum. “This particular sound will be buried within each show to especially challenge their fans to discover this special feature.” Members of scum de terre have been working together in various configurations for thirteen years. Past and present incarnations have included Street of Crocodiles, and tokyosexwhale. top

scum de terre "Performance at Birds and Stone" photography Cody Oliver, As part of their Sqeaks Forever Tour, scum will present the following works: Squeaks Forever: episode I (for The Brothers Quay, Norman McLaren and Jan Svankmajer). October 8th, 2005, 7:00p.m. - EMMEDIA, Calgary. Squeaks Forever: episode II (for John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Jimi, Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Mark Sandman, Charles, Mingus, Miles Davis and John Lennon). October 15th, 2005, 8:00p.m. - Tongue & Groove Club, Lethbridge Squeaks Forever: episode III (for Cody Oliver, Darren Williams, Kenny, Doren, Ian Birse, Laura Kavanaugh, Tammy McGrath and Paula Fayerman). October 21st, 2005, 8:00p.m. - CSIF, Calgary (performing with TheNihilist Spasm Band). Squeaks Forever: episode IV (for M:ST). October 29th, 2005, 8:00p.m. – The Walter Philllips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff. For more information on scum de terre Squeaks Forever Calgary World Tour, please visit http://members.shaw.ca/scumdeterre/.

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