7 pm
Le Brothers: The Role of Artists in Post War Contemporary Vietnam
Harbour Centre
Simon Fraser University
515 West Hasting St.
Room HC 1600
8 pm
Transcultural Curatorial Practices: A Conversation with Nathalie Mba Bikoro and Willem Wilhelmus
Djavad Mowafaghian
World Art Centre
Simon Fraser GCA
149 W. Hastings St.
NATHALIE MBA BIKORO is a visual artist, educator, activist, and director of the DNA Arts Foundation (Gabon) and Art Lab (London). She has exhibited and performed internationally, receiving numerous awards including the National Finnish Presentation Award for Best Performance Artist (2010) and two international awards for Best Artist in Senegal during the Dak’Art Biennale (2012). Her work has been featured widely in print and media, including on AlJazeera and the BBC documentary Who Are You Calling an African Artist?
Bikoro’s work and practice uses performance, printmaking, media, installation, and social encounters to address ecology, colonialism, social struggle, and personal emancipation. During the 2009 Gabonese elections, Bikoro devised an experiment called the Squat Museum as a means for local communities to imagine ways towards self-sustainability. The project was a travelling gallery space that visited neighborhoods and villages in and around Libreville, Bitam, and Omboué, exhibiting in an old car and trailer and on a floating pirogue boat. The programs presented a series of contemporary performances, dialogues, sculptural reenactments, and activities that reinterpreted the role of Griot storytelling and the relations between people and foods through drawing, games, video and photography.
http://nbikoro.com/
http://futuremonuments.com/
WILLEM WILHELMUS studied metallurgy at the Technical University in Delft but since a young age was interested and dedicated to body awareness and emotional expression techniques, which he learned and practiced in Germany, USA and Holland. Since 1999, his work has centred solely around performance art. He combines both the creation and the organization of performance events such as the Fake Finn Festival of experimental live art, La Contact, New Art Contact, Art Contact and Kaapo Hintikka, all of them in Helsinki.
He describes his work as making holes in the time. “I once met a mad poet who was shouting around, addressing nobody in particular: Put a Finger between the Time! I understood immediately, but it took me some twenty years to take it serious in all consequence and concentrate on just that: making holes in the time. I do this as an artist and invite others to do so as a curator-organizer of live art events”
Wilhelmus has presented his work in many international venues such as InfrAction Venetia (Italy), Trampolim (Vitoria, Brazil), Guangzhou Live, Art Action, 53 Art Museum (China), DakArt Off Biennial (Senegal), Undisclosed Territories #3 (Indonesia), Contaminate 3, Boston (USA), and KEAF, Theater, Seoul (South Korea).
http://willemwilhelmus.com/
http://motherstongue.net/
Co-presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement
1 – 7 pm
La Pocha Nostra Workshop
LIVE International Performance Art Biennale offers a new opportunity for emerging artists to participate in a unique mentorship/workshop with the infamous trans–art super–group La Pocha Nostra!
1 – 6 pm
Zoe Kreye: Our Missing Body Workshop
Western Front
303 East 8 Avenue
— NOW FULL —
In partnership with LIVE 2015 and the Western Front, artist Zoe Kreye facilitates an immersive workshop where participants develop embodied scores with an installation of ceramic sculptures. The workshop in its entirety is conceived of as a collectively developed performance ritual. Each session begins with a series of embodiment exercises, followed by preliminary scores that invite participants to encounter the sculptures. From these initial encounters, participants will co-develop scores based on participants’ attractions, sensations and interpretations—all steps unfolding together with the sculptures. Participants will also draw and write the narratives that unfold over the course of the workshop.
9 pm
Performance
La Pocha Nostra Showcase
La Pocha Nostra Performance Art Mentorship and Showcase featuring Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Michèle Ceballos Michot, Dani d’Emilia, Saul Garcia-Lopez, Brittany Chávez and workshop participants
$10 suggested donation
Since 1993, Gómez-Pena and members of the Pocha Nostra performance troupe have conducted cross-cultural/cross-disciplinary/cross-generational workshops involving performance artists, actors, dancers and students from diverse ethnic communities, generations and artistic backgrounds. From Sept 19–22, LIVE International Performance Art Biennale offers a new opportunity for 12 local emerging artists to participate in a unique mentorship/workshop with this infamous trans–art supergroup. For 6 hours a day, participants are exposed to La Pocha’s performance methodology, an eclectic combination of exercises sampled from various traditions (experimental theater and dance, Suzuki, ritual performance, shamanism, etc). Parallel to this hands-on process, the group theoretically analyzes the creative process, the issues address by the work, its aesthetic currency, cultural impact and political pertinence. The process culminates on Sept 23 in a public performance that kicks off LIVE’s 2015 program.
http://www.pochanostra.com/
http://lapochanostralivearchive.tumblr.com/
1pm
Artist Talks
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