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NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWSSPECIAL EVENT - "Auntie-Hero" Performance Art EventCo-presented by LIVE Biennial of Performance Art and the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective as part of the Shaq'sthut – Gathering Place Colloquium, November 2008 Artists: Merritt Johnson, Skeena Reece and Cheryl L'HirondelleCurated by Maria Hupfield Friday November 7, 2008 Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC Transcending the ordinary this trio of performance artists, as flexible and fluid as water, defy legend and capture the essence of the heroic through the unheroic. In the exhibit "Auntie- Hero", Vancouver based artists Merritt Johnson, Skeena Reece and Cheryl L'Hirondelle individually exercise their inherent powers to address issues of survival in the 21st Century. Thematically linked through the shared use of narrative repetition manifested in visual patterning, language, sound, action and movement, these artists infiltrate the interstitial spaces of the physical and mental. In true coyote fashion the performances crisscross territories ranging from a border crossing sneak and lock-pick, a gender-bender punk-rocker, to a nomadic multi-sensory guide. Balancing the extreme dualities of life these performances parallel the everyday lived actions of aunties, as aunties, unified through gender and all of our relations. Photo Documentation, Auntie-Hero Performance Art Event Co-presented by LIVE Biennale and ACC as part of the Shaq'asthut - Gathering Place Colloquium Emily Carr University of Art and Design November 7, 2008« Video Documentation, Auntie-Hero Performance Art Event Co-presented by LIVE Biennale and ACC as part of the Shaq'asthut - Gathering Place Colloquium Emily Carr University of Art and Design November 7, 2008 Performer: Cheryl L'Hirondelle« STAY TUNED!Our BLOG is A-LIVE and WELL with new videos, pictures and performance art reportage as they become available. And we are ramping up for 2009. |
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