Lift
Date and Times: Friday, September 12
7:30 am - 9:00 am, 11:00 am -12:30 pm, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Kensington Building (275 Portage Avenue at Smith Street)
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan will present Lift, a series of performance interventions that will be situated in the smallest of spaces: elevators. Dempsey and Millan write, “Elevators are perhaps the last public space uncolonized by consumer culture. With almost no media to distract us, we are very aware (even if briefly) of ourselves, of the wait, of our agency put on hold. We retreat inward, breath-held, until required to re-emerge as the doors open at our floor.” Dempsey and Millan will combine pre-recorded audio with live performance on short (vertical) journeys with captive audiences. As they have done in many previous works, the artists will interact with audience members, whose stories and actions (their journeys) will radically impact and contribute to the performance. This come-and-go performance for a small space will elicit moments of surprise and human contact, to create intimacy within an anonymous space.Research photo courtesy the artists. Photographer unknown.
Nhan Duc Nguyen
Heyseeds
Dates and Times: Installation at aceartinc. opens at 8:00 pm Friday, September 12 and continues until October 4. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Installation at Little Saigon will be available for viewing from September 9 to October 4 during regular restaurant hours.
Locations: aceartinc. (2nd Floor, 290 McDermot Avenue) and Little Saigon Restaurant (333 William Avenue at Adelaide Street)
Nhan Duc Nguyen’s Heyseeds focuses on the aesthetics, histories and politics of Northern Vietnamese animist traditions as they are being practiced in North America. For (in) visible cities he will be creating two distinct but interrelated shrine installations - one installed in a downtown Winnipeg Vietnamese restaurant, Little Saigon, and another in the Flux gallery of aceartinc. The restaurant shrine will include interviews with restaurant workers, as part of the record of the story of Vietnamese-Canadians (which Nhan has conducted and recorded in advance of the festival), played in conjunction with music used to call up the spirits. A second shrine, installed at aceartinc., has an interactive component which will enable viewers to write on sticky notes and other stationery, and include them for display as a part of the shrine.
Nhan Duc Nguyen’s Heyseeds focuses on the aesthetics, histories and politics of Northern Vietnamese animist traditions as they are being practiced in North America. For (in) visible cities he will be creating two distinct but interrelated shrine installations - one installed in a downtown Winnipeg Vietnamese restaurant, Little Saigon, and another in the Flux gallery of aceartinc. The restaurant shrine will include interviews with restaurant workers, as part of the record of the story of Vietnamese-Canadians (which Nhan has conducted and recorded in advance of the festival), played in conjunction with music used to call up the spirits. A second shrine, installed at aceartinc., has an interactive component which will enable viewers to write on sticky notes and other stationery, and include them for display as a part of the shrine.
At the opening reception (Friday, September 12 at 8:00 pm), incense and candles will be lit and foodstuffs will be offered as a necessary part of these shrines. The shrines refer to the story of the widow Ba Ba Bua*, the childhood ditty which mirrors her tale, and the examination of wars and of widows, fused with the rituals and leitmotifs of Northern Vietnamese animist traditions as practiced in a North American context. The installation will remain in the gallery for four weeks after the opening reception, continuing to accumulate notes from gallery visitors.
* Ba Ba Bua (The Widow Ba) is a woman who sold noodle soup at Bai Sau Beach in Qui Nhon, the town in Vietnam where Nguyen was born. Missing and presumed dead during the exodus by sea after the fall of South Vietnam, she has many shrines erected to her by the 1990s and this woman of great misfortune and of extraordinary resolve has became a patron spirit to many restaurant workers in North America.
Nhan Duc Nguyen, "Shrine to Literature: Redux” (2008) from the exhibition Everything is Not Lost curated by Kim Nguyen, Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver. Photo by Randall Lee.
FASTWÜRMS
HOUSE of BANGS and BLOOD + SWASH
Dates and Times: Friday, September 12 from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm and Saturday, September 13 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (286 McDermot Avenue)
Dates and Times: Friday, September 12 from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm and Saturday, September 13 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (286 McDermot Avenue)
In conjunction with their exhibition DONKY@NINJA@WITCH at Plug In ICA (September 13 to November 8 - opening reception September 12 @ 8 pm), FASTWÜRMS will present
two performances for (in) visible cities:
HOUSE of BANGS features guest stylists Andrew Harwood and Sandee Moore. Bring out your head and they will clip, curl, and comb it, tease, toss, and tress it, muss with it, fluff, and frost, pat, part, perk, and preen it, conk and bob, brush, braid, and boff, bother, body, and bun, wave it, weave it, dred and shag, fro and buzz cut, leave it all alone, then hold it down, blow it, and bang it.
BLOOD + SWASH features guest tattooist Katie Bethune-Leamen. Freestyle temporary marker tattoos for skin and denim. This provisional tattoo parlor and multi-disciplinary performance event is free, and open to the public. No appointment or parental consent necessary.
Both HOUSE of BANGS and BLOOD + SWASH will be presented simultaneously in the main space of Plug In ICA.
FASTWÜRMS, DONKY@NINJA@WITCH, House of Bangs, installation view, Art Gallery of York University, North York, 2007. Photo by Phillip Monk.
Cheryl L’Hirondelle
êkâya-pâhkaci (don’t freeze up)
Date and Times: Saturday, September 13, from 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm (performance installation in process), and live performance from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Date and Times: Saturday, September 13, from 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm (performance installation in process), and live performance from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Winnipeg Film Group Studio (Artspace Building, 304 - 100 Arthur Street, 3rd Floor)
Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s work, êkâya-pâhkaci [ee-guy-uh-puck-a-chee] (don’t freeze up), operates through an intersection of nomadic site-specificity, visual patterning, language, narrative, movement and rhythm. With êkâya-pâhkaci (don’t freeze up), Cheryl will stage a performance presented under an adaptable traveling tent where she will be relating useful information to passersby using her body, voice and graffiti/tagging. The audience, by proximity and in accepting her invitation to ‘come in from the cold’ becomes part of her ‘camp’. The public is welcome to visit the installation/tent and have tea and bannock during the afternoon, and Cheryl will present a live performance within the tent in the evening, starting at 7:00 pm.Cheryl L'Hirondelle, êkâya-pâhkaci (don’t freeze up). Photo by Merle Addison.
Jessica Thompson
Freestyle SoundHack
Date and Time: Saturday, September 13 from 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Location: Video Pool Media Arts Centre (300 - 100 Arthur Street) and other Exchange District sites (tba – check videopool.blogspot.com for updates)
Jessica Thompson will present Freestyle SoundHack, a collaborative performance in the form of a workshop. The performance/workshop involves building Freestyle SoundKits - wearable sound pieces prototyped by the artist - that generate and broadcast electronic beats as users move through the urban environment. During the performance, the artist will give her project to the public by teaching workshop participants how to make their own Freestyle SoundKits, which they can distribute as they wish, using whatever sounds they choose.
The performance/workshop begins at Video Pool with a Freestyle SoundKits building session, followed by live sonic and movement-based interventions in the public spaces of the Exchange District. Thompson regards her transmission of open-source technological skill as the core component of the performance. She is interested in sharing technological knowledge so that the sonic transformation of public space becomes less of a specialized artistic activity and more of an ordinary occurrence.
The workshop/performance is open to any one 14 years and older. No previous electronics, hacking, coding or performance experience is needed – just a desire to experiment and play. Enrolment is limited to 10 participants and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The fee for the workshop is $40, which will cover the cost of workshop materials. Participants should bring their own snacks/lunch to the workshop.
This workshop is presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre. To register or for more information contact Cam Woykin, Education Coordinator: tel: (204) 949-9134 x4 email: vped@videopool.org
blog: videopool.blogspot.com web: videopool.org
Date and Time: Saturday, September 13 from 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Location: Video Pool Media Arts Centre (300 - 100 Arthur Street) and other Exchange District sites (tba – check videopool.blogspot.com for updates)
Jessica Thompson will present Freestyle SoundHack, a collaborative performance in the form of a workshop. The performance/workshop involves building Freestyle SoundKits - wearable sound pieces prototyped by the artist - that generate and broadcast electronic beats as users move through the urban environment. During the performance, the artist will give her project to the public by teaching workshop participants how to make their own Freestyle SoundKits, which they can distribute as they wish, using whatever sounds they choose.
The performance/workshop begins at Video Pool with a Freestyle SoundKits building session, followed by live sonic and movement-based interventions in the public spaces of the Exchange District. Thompson regards her transmission of open-source technological skill as the core component of the performance. She is interested in sharing technological knowledge so that the sonic transformation of public space becomes less of a specialized artistic activity and more of an ordinary occurrence.
The workshop/performance is open to any one 14 years and older. No previous electronics, hacking, coding or performance experience is needed – just a desire to experiment and play. Enrolment is limited to 10 participants and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The fee for the workshop is $40, which will cover the cost of workshop materials. Participants should bring their own snacks/lunch to the workshop.
This workshop is presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre. To register or for more information contact Cam Woykin, Education Coordinator: tel: (204) 949-9134 x4 email: vped@videopool.org
blog: videopool.blogspot.com web: videopool.org
Jessica Thompson, Freestyle SoundKit Test Run (Brooklyn, 2006). Body-mounted sensors, sound module, speaker. Circuit design and technical assistance by Ranjit Bhatnagar. Photo by Ranjit Bhatnajar, courtesy of p|m Gallery, Toronto.
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