5th EDITION: The Tentacular Inquiry of Performance
May 4 & 5, 2024
This performative showcase involves students from LePARC research cluster and beyond. This year we invited participation from student members of other Milieux clusters and have cross pollinated with HTMlless Festival resulting in an expansive exploration into performative research-creation.
These two performance days, May 4th & 5th, show case the culmination of two weeks of collaborative research-creation laboratories across multiple spaces.
Join us to discover what form the projects have taken, to ask the question “what is performative inquiry?" and experience these embodied interventions!
2024 ARTISTS
EIJA LOPONEN-STEPHENSON
NATHAN FERGUSON
VALERIE ORTIZ
PAOLO GRUNI
THOMAS SEIBEL
ANDRÉ BOCCHETTI
KRISTEN LEWIS
HANNAH SCHALLERT
PATRÍCIA MACHADO
PRINCEX NAVEED
DIEGO LÓPEZ FRANCIA
SUE PROCTOR
LAS SABINAS
SARAH BARONE
DEBORA ALANNA
KAYLA JEANSON
ALLISON PEACOCK
MAIREAD FILGATE
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CURATORS
SEYED HAMIDREZA HOSSEINI
MARGARET LAPP
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR
MALTE LEANDER
COORDINATOR
TRICIA ENNS
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CURATORIAL ADVISOR
LÍLIA MESTRE
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Interventions
Embodied
Saturday May 4, 4:30pm - 8:30pm
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4:30pm Diego López Francia, “Find the River”
Location: Black Box (EV 4.502)
Description: "Find the River" is a Testimonial play about a man who searches for his absent grandfather to understand his family story.
5:00pm Las Sabinas, “We once found ourselves in Barcelona"
Location: VPS (EV 10.760)
"We once found ourselves in Barcelona" is a performative exploration of our myth across time, space, straw, and language.
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5:30pm Allison Peacock's “Skeleton of Stones, Future Garden, and Gardener” projections begin
Location: Performance Lab (10.785)
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6:00pm Introduction of HTMLless Festival and short explanation from Allison Peacock about her work
Location: Performance Lab (10.785)
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6:30pm Allison Peacock, “Skeleton of Stones, Future Garden, and Gardener” - with performance by Mairead Filgate
Location: Performance Lab (10.785)
"Skeleton of Stones, Future Garden, and Gardener" These three works correspond to the Japanese Garden at the Montreal Botanical Garden, the parking lot of the Home Depot on Beaubien West, and the study of a gardener's working methods. Each video and dance uses a different choreographic and presentational mode to critically investigate the ways people are part of urban places perceived as natural.
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7:00pm Kayla Jeanson, “Beh0lder x DNV” (VPS)
Location: VPS (EV 10.760)
"The Beholder" is a hybrid camera/human persona; a human with a camera instead of eyes. From The Beholder’s poetical movement emerges a desire not only to see but to be seen, a transition from flat images to fully fleshed feelings.
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7:45pm Debora Alanna, “Lullaby - the play!”
Location: Black Box (EV 4.502)
"Lullaby - the play: A Trú & Vilborg tale" is based on an Icelandic folktale.
Sunday May 5, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
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3:00pm Kristen Lewis, Hannah Schallert & Patrícia Machado, “tbd"
Location: VPS (EV 10.760)
Description: Intermixing live auscultation recording with experimental movement, the work interrogates how the body's physical movement affects the physiological soundscape of the body.
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3:45pm Conversations with the Artists
Location: Performance Lab (EV 10.785)
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4:30pm Eija Loponen-Stephenson & Nathan Ferguson, “City Caligraphics”
Location: Performance Lab (EV 10.785)
Description: "City Calagraphics" is a series of wearable drawing machines constructed from city rubble intended to translate felt urban experiences into calligraphic documents.