possible performance, 2018, presented at M:ST, Calgary. Photos: Mike Tan
Author: emmakateguimond
Strong Legs Folding
“This is a stolen play, taken from two authors who never knew each other. I destroyed the play by turning it into a list: a dictée. This idea, “dictée”, is shared but not stolen. I promise. In one of the stolen plays there are three acts about waiting. In this dictée, there are three acts about gone. Those acts are: Gut. Gutted. Guttural.“
A performed auto-theory about love and indebtedness competing in a time when living is becoming unaffordable; a psychosomatic inquiry into how the body and language metabolize difficulties into forms of desire and intention. Somatic therapist and artist, Rue Jovanovic, plays the role of witness, stagehand, and friend. These three functions co-mingle economies of labor and care. Rigorous but sensual, a series of actions are performed in tandem with anecdotes where the underlying question is: what do we owe each other?
7a*11d, Toronto, 2024
Photos: Henry Chan
OFFTA, Montreal, 2024
Photos: Rodolfo Rueda
Show & Show
Invited by Régart centre d’artistes.
Performed in Lévis, Québec, 2022
In collaboration with Michael Martini.
Photos: Jean-Francois Gravel
GLASS
My Dog for the Duration of a Cigarette
Montreal, 2019
Performed VIVA! Art Action
Photos by Paul Litherland.
THE PLOT
30 minutes, 2024
THE PLOT is part téléthéâtre, part supercut. The performance features three people reiteratively telling each other about a hypothetical movie plot that also involves three characters: the Protagonist, the Writer, and the Voice Actor/Dancer. The movie plot is a psychological thriller and revenge fantasy involving artistic collaborators who become competitors and lovers. Miscommunication, desire, and consent emerge and disappear.
Exhibition text by hanako hoshimi-caines
C-Magazine review by Maya Burns
Camera: Isabelle Pauwels Additional camera: performers
Performers: Jacqueline Van de Geer, Sarah Chouinard-Poirier, Nien-Tzu Weng – Sound recording: Elena Stoodley, Oliver Lewis – Sound design: Elena Stoodley – Sound design: Elena Stoodley – Sound mixing: Bruno Pucella Piano composition: Nathan Vanheuverzwijn – Sound mixing: Bruno Pucella Piano composition: Nathan Vanheuverzwijn
You Record an Image to Memory by Blinking your Eyes Slowly
Created for Screenmoves, Toronto, 2017.
Performer: Sonja Zlatanova
YOU
Double-channel video installtion, presented at TOPO, Montreal, 2019
Exhibition text by Paul Mackrous.
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