{"id":693,"date":"2019-09-29T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T22:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/?p=693"},"modified":"2019-09-30T19:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T04:25:31","slug":"sept-28-highlights-live-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/sept-28-highlights-live-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept 28 highlights: LIVE 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LIVE 2019<\/strong> officially kicked off with the first day of visiting artist workshops and an opening reception at <strong>Richmond Art Gallery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>VERB FRAU TV: planning<\/h3>\n<p>The day started with a meeting to plan <strong>VERB FRAU TV<\/strong>: Season 8. Titled Supporting: Moving (not moving) with furniture and talking with furniture.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Flivebiennale%2Fvideos%2F1632482183549714%2F&amp;show_text=1&amp;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"657\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis will be happening Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (Oct 3, 4, 5) from 11:30am-1pm each day at <strong>Pat&#8217;s Pub.<\/strong> Free entry! Don&#8217;t miss it. More information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/margaret-dragu\/\">LIVE website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/662663924223135\/\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Rochdy Laribi &amp; Christine Bouvier: workshops<\/h3>\n<p>Visiting artists\u00a0<strong>Rochdy Laribi<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Christine Bouvier<\/strong> are leading this year&#8217;s workshops at LIVE, where young Vancouver-based artists are invited to learn from the experience of the festival&#8217;s artists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-701\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-701\" src=\"http:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299740_for-web-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"RochdyLaribi and Christine Bouvier workshop at LIVE 2019. Photo by Saman Shariati.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299740_for-web-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299740_for-web-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299740_for-web.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RochdyLaribi and Christine Bouvier workshop at LIVE 2019. Photo by Saman Shariati.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-702\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-702\" src=\"http:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299909_for-web-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"RochdyLaribi and Christine Bouvier workshop at LIVE 2019. Photo by Saman Shariati.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299909_for-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299909_for-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299909_for-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299909_for-web-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Rochdy-Laribi_Christine-Bouvier_LIVE-2019_1299909_for-web.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RochdyLaribi and Christine Bouvier workshop at LIVE 2019. Photo by Saman Shariati.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Find out more about their 3-day workshops and their <em>Do Not Disturb<\/em> performance, which will be the culmination of these workshops. The performance is free to attend and is happening at Pat&#8217;s Pub on October 1st. Here is the info about <a href=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/do-not-disturb\/\">Rochdy Laribi &amp; Christine Bouvier&#8217;s Do Not Disturb performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Jon Sasaki: opening reception<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-708\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-708\" src=\"http:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Jon-Sasaki_LIVE-2019_754A3956_for-web-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Cindy Mochizuki and Jon Sasaki opening reception at Richmond Art Gallery. Photo by Ravi Gill.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Jon-Sasaki_LIVE-2019_754A3956_for-web-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Jon-Sasaki_LIVE-2019_754A3956_for-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Jon-Sasaki_LIVE-2019_754A3956_for-web-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/Jon-Sasaki_LIVE-2019_754A3956_for-web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Mochizuki and Jon Sasaki opening reception at Richmond Art Gallery. Photo by Ravi Gill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the evening, the Richmond Art Gallery hosted the opening of two artists, Cindy Mochizuki and <strong>Jon Sasaki<\/strong>. Sasaki was the first official performer of LIVE 2019, as he performed <em>We First Need a Boat for the Rising Tide to Lift Us<\/em> in late July, 2019. His colossal effort to build a boat in the waters of Steveston were recorded and edited in the video that was screened at the RAG&#8217;s opening reception.<\/p>\n<p>Here, RAG director <strong>Shaun Dacey<\/strong> introduces LIVE Director <strong>Randy Gledhill<\/strong>, who addresses Jon Sasaki for his work:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Flivebiennale%2Fvideos%2F423079735014788%2F&amp;show_text=1&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"407\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is right now.<br \/>\nLIVE is alive at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RAG_Gallery_BC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RAG_Gallery_BC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/livebiennale?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#livebiennale<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AUzkL4vJrz\">pic.twitter.com\/AUzkL4vJrz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LIVE Biennale (@livebiennale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/livebiennale\/status\/1178134130141224960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Jon Sasaki\u2019s <\/b><b><i>We First Need a Boat for the Rising Tide to Lift Us<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have long revered and enjoyed the silence of performance art. The concept is the holy grail and the performance a meditation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jon Sasaki\u2019s documentative and, may I say, agonizing piece <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We First Need a Boat for the Rising Tide to Lift Us <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">serves us a stiff drink right up as one of the first events of 2019\u2019s LIVE Biennale. Inspired by his recent discovery of his Nikkei grandfather spending much of his life as a fisherman in Richmond, BC, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We First Need a Boat for the Rising Tide to Lift Us <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a work of grappling with what is lost in between generations, especially ones that are part of a diaspora. Sasaki is earnest in his effort to build a boat: entirely half-submerged in the Fraser River and &#8220;equipped with traditional Japanese boat-building tools he had no skill at using&#8221;. Watching the video, viewers enter the Fraser River with Sasaki and confront the struggles of cutting plywood in water and attempting to physically build a boat. Thoughts that empathize with Sasaki rush into mind: the metaphor of the challenging process of building a boat and of water as references to the seeming impossibility to relive his grandfather\u2019s experience, and Sasaki\u2019s desire to have the ability to build a boat, naturally, like a skill inherited instead of having to learn and practised for years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sasaki places an emphasis on adaptability in this piece. Trying to build a boat in water with tools you don\u2019t know how to use indeed conveys the difficulty of having no choice but to adapt. In a way, the beauty and admirability in that makes one bow down to Sasaki\u2019s imagination of his grandfather and other Japanese-Canadians\u2019 experience post-WWII. The captions next to the display of tools speak to what it looks like to acknowledge what one does not know: they are honest, explorative, and humorously self-aware. The video of the boat-building process, the origami-folding, and the tools display bring one closer to the cultural expectations Sasaki appears to experience. Aptly presented at the Richmond Art Gallery, the opening reception provided trays of sushi\u2014lots of california roll filling, perhaps mirroring the adaptability and expectation of culture. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Review by Katherine Chan, VANDOCUMENT.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2-w1-qh5Bw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2-w1-qh5Bw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A labour of love. The ragged interior of the boat @jon.sasaki built in the Fraser River delta near Steveston&#8230; #livebiennale<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/livebiennaleperformance\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> LIVE Biennale<\/a> (@livebiennaleperformance) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-09-29T03:51:14+00:00\">Sep 28, 2019 at 8:51pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/jon-sasaki\/\">Jon Sasaki on his LIVE page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Coming up next at LIVE 2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Art Party!<\/h3>\n<p>Last night may have been the opening reception, but Tuesday, October 1st is the <strong>ART PARTY<\/strong>! Come mingle and share a drink with this year&#8217;s artists at Pat&#8217;s Pub from 7pm until late. It&#8217;s free to attend, bring your friends! Here&#8217;s the info:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/376459959969271\/\">LIVE 2019 Art Party Facebook event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-697\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-697\" src=\"http:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/art-party-cover-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"LIVE 2019 Art Party poster\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/art-party-cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/art-party-cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/art-party-cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/art-party-cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/art-party-cover-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LIVE 2019 Art Party is happening Oct 1!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LIVE 2019 is September 28 &#8211; October 6, 2019. Find the full schedule is on <a href=\"http:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2019\/schedule\/\">our website<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/livebiennale\/events\/\">our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep following us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/livebiennale\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/livebiennaleperformance\/\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/livebiennale\">Twitter<\/a> &#8211; where you&#8217;ll find all the latest news about what&#8217;s happening and where to go to be part of LIVE 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Tag your posts #livebiennale so we can like and share what you post &lt;3<\/p>\n<p>Join us, follow us, engage with us. Together we are LIVE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVE 2019 officially kicked off with the first day of visiting artist workshops and an opening reception at Richmond Art Gallery. 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