Duration:endurance
mobile units, exploring.
Curated by Natalie Loveless (Paul Couillard, Jeff Huckleberry)
and Paul Couillard (Marilyn Arsem, Naufus Figueroa)
Friday October 19, 2007, 2-10 pm & 8-10 pm @ the Western Front
and Saturday October 20, 2007, 2-3 pm @ Vanier Park Beach
Marilyn Arsem
will perform a durational piece at the Western Front, designed for audiences of a single person. Working within an intimate format, the piece is concerned with the unique properties of live performance - the possibility of direct interaction between performer and audience; the opportunity to engage the audience’s other senses of taste, touch and smell; and the question of how meaning is constructed from the memory of an ephemeral event. Friday from 2-10pm @ the Western Front guestroom.
Paul Couillard
will perform ACTIVATIONS, an 8-hour, installation-based performance work will temporarily inhabit some of the Western Front's nooks and crannies. The piece will unfold as a series of "stutters," building situational rhythms out of fragments, repetitions, and anticipatory silences. Activations will explore the tension between live and recorded presences, contrasting spaces, objects and moments animated by human intervention with those same elements as acted upon by everyday forces (such as gravity) and informed by a conscious absence. Friday from 2-10pm @ Western Front.
Schedule
2-3 pm Activation Part One (with artist's presence as part of the image)
3-4 pm Activation Part One (w/o artist's presence as part of the image)
4-5 pm Activation Part Two (with artist's presence as part of the image)
5-6 pm Activation Part Two (w/o artist's presence as part of the image)
6-7 pm Activation Part Three (with artist's presence as part of the image)
7-8 pm Activation Part Three (w/o artist's presence as part of the image)
8-9 pm Activation Part Four (with artist's presence as part of the image)
9-10 pm Activation Part Four (w/o artist's presence as part of the image)
Naufus Figueroa
will be performing a process-based piece inspired by the stories of his grandfather, Simeon de la Cruz, who was a ceremonial dancer and active figure in the life of the Quiche and Ladino community of Joyabaj, Guatemala. Saturday from 2-3 pm @ Vanier Park Beach. ***MEET AT 1:30 PM AT THE WESTERN FRONT FOR SHUTTLE TO FIGUEROA'S PERFORMANCE.
Jeff Huckleberry
will be performing a work that invokes aspects of collaboratory processes that are often effaced: production, labor, exhaustion, frustration and anxiety. Friday from 8-10pm @ the Western Front exhibition gallery.