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Artists
Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh
Title: SLOWERTHANLIGHT
Artist: Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh (Calgary, AB)
Dates: 4 to 7 pm October 16, Devonian Gardens at the reflecting pool.
Presented by: EMMEDIA
Nature of Event: performance/installation.
SLOWERTHANLIGHT/ NOSE HILL is one of a series of works, in progress, which uses solar technology as the power source for electronic art. This performance installation involves a series of audio speakers set, and two networked laptops running real-time audio controllers built in MAX/MSP.
Prior to the performance the artists gather sounds while walking on Nose Hill. These sounds are processed and fed back into the sonic landscape of the park over a three-hour performance. Listeners are invited to explore the vicinity of the performance and create their own sound mixes from the speakers on the hill.
Laura Kavanaugh and Ian Birse have been collaborating since 1997 on projects involving improvised and composed audio/video environments. The work integrates live audio sampling, microphone and mixer feedback, environmental sounds, voice, and contact pickups with real-time transformations of video samples and live action. Birse and Kavanaugh have presented their work across Canada, Europe, and Australia.
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John Boehme
“Western Canada has the unique distinction of being on the Pacific Rim, with close ties to Asia, a thriving First Nations cultural history, combined with unique and prosperous dance, film, theater and queer communities. These regional characteristics make Western Canada an epicenter of Performance Art, which at once responds to and retaliates against contemporary visual art establishments, exemplified by luminaries such as Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, and Mowry Baden.” Using a performance framework in Western Canada: Performance art of the Pacific Rim, John Boehme dons the persona of a "Performance Evaluation Review Instructor.” Employing visual aids, video, and slides to highlight both current and historical performance practices in this region this lecture generates “Multicentric mappings” of the unique environment and trends of Western-Canadian performance art.
John G. Boehme’s work integrates new practices with a multi-disciplinary approach, often incorporating performance, sculpture, photography, video, digital technology, and installation. Over the past nine years John has developed an extensive exhibition record both nationally and internationally, while also teaching as a Sessional/Adjunct Instructor at the University of Victoria, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, and Camosun and Brentwood Colleges.
Title: WESTERN CANADA: PERFORMANCE ART OF THE PACIFIC RIM
Artist: John Boehme (Victoria, BC)
Dates: 7:30 pm, October 27, The Nickle Arts Museum.
Presented by: The Nickle Arts Museum
Nature of Event: performance/lecture
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art - http://www.livevancouver.bc.ca/
Non stop performative lecture
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
courtesty: the artist
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Diane Borsato
Title: SLEEPING WITH CAKE
Artist: Diane Borsato (Toronto, ON)
Dates: Opening reception: 8:00 pm, October 8. Exhibition: October 8 through to 31, Truck Gallery.
Presented by: TRUCK Gallery
Nature of Event: exhibition
Diane Borsato
Artifacts in my mouth
image courtesty of the artistSleeping With Cake presents a selection of Borsato's photo-text composites, documenting several years worth of private gestures, eccentric experiments, and discreet urban interventions. These works ‘twice-perform’ the performances through suggestive imagery and performative writing, all the while denying the entertainment factor of a live performance. Alternately funny and dark, the works in the series explore themes such as loneliness, love, and death; and act out proposals for multi-sensory, affective ways of knowing. The selection includes documentation of pieces such as “Artifacts in My Mouth,” where the artist was given permission to open the museum vitrines and intimately interact with a collection of objects; “Warm Things to Chew for the Dead,” where she left hot succulent foods for the dead in old French cemeteries; “Touching 1000 People,” where the artist touched a thousand strangers on the streets of Montreal; and “Sleeping with Cake,” a poetic research experiment where she slept with comfort food to see if it would be comforting.
Diane Borsato completed an MFA at Concordia University, and an MA in Performance Studies at NYU, and is currently Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio at Brock University. She has enacted public performances, relational projects, and discreet interventions across Canada; and in Mexico, Taiwan, The United States, and France.
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Kay Burns
Title: A VIEW FROM THE EDGE (lecture), and
A WALK THROUGH CALGARY HISTORY (walking tour)
Artist: Kay Burns (Calgary, AB)
Dates: Lecture: 7:30 pm, October 13, The Nickle Arts Museum. Walking Tour: 9:00 am October 15, meet at Fort Calgary Park and a bus will take participants to the start point.
Presented by: The Nickle Arts Museum
Nature of Event: performance/walking tour.
Donning the persona of researcher Iris Taylor, Kay Burns will present two performances during the festival: the performative lecture A View From the Edge and the performance walk A Walk Through Calgary History.
In her lecture A View From the Edge, Iris Taylor presents her recent findings regarding the Flat Earth Society. Using the artifacts of a fictitious member of the Society, along with materials from the archives of the actual Canadian Chapter of the Flat Earth Society, Iris seeks to reinstate the now-defunct Society and to recruit new members from her audience. This performance-lecture serves as a 'fictional/critical exploration of contemporary information systems,' blurring the relationships between academic language, performance art, and presentation technologies.
The site-specific public participation performance A Walk Through Calgary History presents an interactive version of a guided public walking tour. Participants join in the collecting and archiving of ‘artifacts’ and are immersed in a reinterpreted historical/fictional exploration of the region. With Iris at the helm, the walk functions to demythologize local lore, reinterpreting it into 'something other than conventional histories with their anticipated glories and banalities.'
Kay Burns is a Calgary-based performance and installation artist who has exhibited work throughout Alberta and Canada. She has presented performative lectures as the fictitious researcher/ethnographer Iris Taylor in Canada at Lethbridge, Alberta; Dawson City, Yukon; and Sackville, New Brunswick, and internationally at Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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COSTUME BASED PERFORMANCE ART AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
Title: COSTUME BASED PERFORMANCE ART AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
Panel Moderator: David Bateman
Panelists: Mara Verna (Montreal, PQ), Camille Turner (Toronto, ON)
Dates: 2 pm, Saturday October 8, The Nickle Arts Museum.
Presented by: MST
Nature of Event: Panel discussion, Performance Series
Within performative practices the body is the site of cultural experimentation and expression where ideologies and critiques are enacted. As part of this enactment, costume based performance artists utilize the theatricality of costumes and prostheses to engage with political subjects. In these performances, the politics of representation are examined and laid bare as sites of social experimentation. From the explorations of Queer identity enacted by the Drag Queen genre, to the “biotechnological” prosthetic manipulations, costume based performance has taken on a unique potential for critical engagement. As part of this year’s M:ST 3 Festival a number of performers use the medium of costume based performance as a means for critical dialogue. This panel will examine the possibilities that costume based performative practices offers as a means of political critique and representation.
David Bateman was born and raised in Peterborugh Ontario. He is still in recovery. He received his PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Calgary and is presently writer-in-residence at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. He has taught drama and english at Trent University (Peterborugh) and the University of Calgary; and Creative Writing and Queer Theory at Emily Carr Institute for Art & Design (Vancouver). As a Toronto-based performance artist he has divided his time between Ontario and Alberta since 1998. His most recent work, Lotus Blossom Special; Metamorphosis & Misidentification in Madama Butterfly, will be mounted at Mutton Busting in Calgary in January of 2006 and was premiered at Western Front (Vancouver) in November of 2004.
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M:ST Collaborators:
ACAD | CSIF | EMMEDIA | The Nickle Arts Museum | Stride Gallery | The New Gallery | Truck Gallery | Southern Alberta Art Gallery | The Walter Phillips Gallery |
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