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SUMMARY:Joshua Ongcol - The Energy Never Dies (The E.N.D.)
DESCRIPTION:The Energy Never Dies (E.N.D.) represents an interdisciplinary collaboration of dance and music\, aimed at exploring the concept of “cypher” within dance communities. This term refers to the openness and generosity that exists within the circular dance formation that energizes the communal flow state. This conduction of energy is characterized by the exchange of creativity and movement between individuals both inside andoutside the circle. The Energy Never Dies meditates on patterns\, cycles and rhythms formed between dancers\, community and onlookers to further investigate energy and movement as a state of being that tethers and connects us to one another both socially and culturally. \nMusicians: Miguel Maravilla\, Jen Yakamovich and Marty Ndlovu \nDancers: Joshua Ongcol\, Momoko Shimada\, Jason Owin Galeos and Riko Hirota \n \nAbout the Artist \nJoshua Ongcol – as an artist\, I am interested in the ways tenderness manifests in my body\, and its receptivity to  deep connection\, wisdom\, and transformation. I am interested in ways we could communicate  regardless of the medium of art/language. With this\, I hope to unravel the narrative of being a  part of the Filipnx diaspora; specifically of intergenerational exchange\, lineage of resilience\,  concept of “home” and “KAPWA”\, queerness and reclaiming spirituality. \nThis project was made possible through generous support from the Dance West Network\, the City of Vancouver Cultural Programs\, Communities and Artists Shifting Culture and Co.ERASGA Dance. \n.     
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/joshua-ongcol-the-energy-never-dies-the-e-n-d/
LOCATION:Russian Hall (Strathcona)\, 600 Campbell Avenue\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A 3K1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T105854
CREATED:20230824T072228Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Sylliboy “Little children our beings they found you" – mijua'ji'jk ntininaq weji’skesnik
DESCRIPTION:The L’nuk hieroglyphic written language of komqwejwi’kasikl comes from our shared connection to the land\, to mother earth. This country also shares a dark legacy where children and our shared histories were buried. Communities at large are acknowledging it together as something we can no longer ignore. Emerging from a workshop during the Antigonite Art After Dark Festival – light messages were carved by the community\, L’nuk and settlers combined to honour the survivors\, the children missing and found in the mass unmarked graves. Together the community reflected on the shared history of the residential school system across Canada and on reconciliation as shared responsibility. By approaching each light box\, exhibition visitors will light up the ceiling with community komqwejwi’kasikl messages of grief\, sorrow\, love and care. Each box acknowledges our shared responsibilities\, our shared legacy and as a way to heal together as neighbours of this country and landscapes to which the komqwejwi’kasikl language comes from. \n\n\n\nAfter the performance with local artists Renae Morriseau and Cease Wyse\, artist Michelle Sylliboy will talk about her artwork with the audience. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artist\nThree time Award-winning author and interdisciplinary artist Michelle Sylliboy (Mi’kmaq/L’nu) was born in Boston\, Massachusetts\, and raised on her traditional L’nuk territory in We’koqmaq\, Cape Breton. Her published collection of photographs and L’nuk hieroglyphic poetry\, Kiskajeyi—I Am Ready won the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award. In 2021\, she received the Indigenous Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia. In 2022\, she was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award. As a PhD candidate in Simon Fraser University’s Philosophy of Education program\, she focuses on the artistic promotion of her original written komqwej’wikasikl language. She is currently working on a new project bringing the arts to the seven districts. \nWelalin aqq Nm’ultesMichelle Sylliboy (L’nu) Mi’kmaq \nRead More: website linktree \nRenae Morriseau is a Cree (nehiyaw iskwew ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ  ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ) and Saulteaux woman (nahkawiskwêw ᓇᐦᑲᐃᐧᐢᑫᐧᐤ) from the Treaty 1 Territory.  She’s been creating artistic works for most of her life and has journeyed across Turtle Island and internationally in film\, television\, theatre and music. She is honoured to have received cultural teachings within her family through social and ceremonial songs and stories. This is the reason she started M’Girl Music over 20 years ago.  www.mgirlmusic.ca
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/ev-sylliboy/
LOCATION:Russian Hall\, 600 Campbell Avenue\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6A 3K1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T105854
CREATED:20230901T183226Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Milton - Queen Tilly and the Marys
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:00 pm – Performance at 7:30 pm \nQueen Tilly and the Marys is a raucous response to musical theatre that explores comedic absurdity\, camp materiality and the radical potential of intergenerational play. Developed during the height of the pandemic\, the work is a tragic-comic ode to a group of women elders raised within the marginalized immigrant communities of East Vancouver (the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. These 80 and 90 year-old Croatian women and their close neighbourhood friends take center stage in the work\, re-enacting their personal history with masquerade\, gender play and hyperbolic theatricality. Working alongside Milton\, her mother and aunts re-thread the relics of their performance histories through filmed musical numbers that reference feminist punk\, slapstick comedy and folk tradition. Technicolor video projections spill beyond the screen into a boisterous mess of live dance and ad-hoc sculpture that exalts lineages of DIY pageantry.  Queen Tilly and the Marys preserves local history through a mode of storytelling that reverberates with the vulgar glory of maximalist femininity\, Slavic bravado and comedic criticality.  \nThis project was made possible through generous support from the British Columbia Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. \n                 \nAbout the Artist \nElizabeth Milton  (she/they) is a mixed European settler artist of Croatian and British ancestry who lives as a guest on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations in Vancouver\, Canada. Her media and performance-based practice utilizes absurdist character-play and hyperbolic expressivity to explore identity\, affect and the radical potential of comedic performativity. Involving a range of participants\, from family members to opera singers\, her interdisciplinary and collaborative works aim to critically investigate the visual language and power structures of amateur spectacle. \nHer work has been exhibited and performed in Canada\, The United States and Europe. Recent performances and screenings include: Dynasty Handbag’s Weirdo Night (Los Angeles)\, A Guided Mediation with VHS Eyelashes\, VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver) and The Bottom of the Fountain is Painted Turquoise at Trinity Square Video (Toronto). Milton holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of British Columbia and a BFA in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University. She is a faculty member in the Department of Fine Arts at Langara College where she instructs studio courses in Media and Performance.
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/queen-tilly-and-the-marys/
LOCATION:VIVO Media Arts Centre\, 2625 Kaslo St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5M 3G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T150000
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SUMMARY:Jessica Karuhanga - ground and cover me
DESCRIPTION:ground and cover me engages with the physical and figurative contours of social and public space as well as the architecture of institutional and built structures. Karuhanga enacts gradual movements that are intuitive and deliberate responses to the walls\, windows and ground. This piece is a choreographic rupture to spaces that might otherwise insist upon the erasure of the historical significance and site specificity that Black subjects occupy in time and space. Karuhanga’s headphones and the personalized soundtrack to her performance negotiate access to the interior space of the performer and by extension her presentation to the public. They both set boundaries to her own experience and leave hervulnerable to the machinations of a public that would seek to instrumentalize her subjectivity.\nAbout the artist \nJessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage whose work addresses issues of cultural politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies\, writing\, drawing and performances. Through her practice\, she explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity and embodiment. She was the 2020 – 2021 recipient of Concordia University’s SpokenWeb Artist/Curator-in-Residence Fellowship. Karuhanga has exhibited her work at Mitchell Art Gallery (Edmonton\, 2022)\, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa\, 2021)\, Varley Art Gallery (Markham\, 2020)\, The Bentway (Toronto\, 2019)\, Nuit Blanche (Toronto\, 2018) and Onsite Gallery (Toronto\, 2018). She has performed at Remai Modern (Saskatoon\, 2023)\, Pallas Art Projects (Dublin\, IE\, 2022)\, WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg\, 2020)\, Long Winter (Toronto\, 2019)\, Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto\, 2018)\, Cooper Cole Gallery (Toronto\, 2017)\, Goldsmiths University (London\, UK\, 2017) and DoubleDouble Land (Toronto\, 2016). C Magazine\, BlackFlash\, Susan Hobbs Gallery\, Blackwood Gallery and Fonderie Darling have published Karuhanga’s writing. She has been featured in AGO’s Artist Spotlight\, i-D\, DAZED\, Visual Aids\, Border Crossings\, Exclaim!\, Toronto Star\, CBC Arts\, esse\, filthy dreams\, Globe and Mail and Canadian Art. She earned her BFA from Western University and MFA from the University of Victoria. She is an Assistant Professor at Western University (London\, ON).
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/jessica-karuhanga-ground-and-cover-me/
LOCATION:Woodwards Atrium\, 128 W Cordova St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 0E6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231013T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T105854
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SUMMARY:Megan Arnold - A Tender Engine
DESCRIPTION:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/09/A-Tender-Engine-Trailer-medium-1-1-1-1-1.mp4 \nDoors at 8:00 pm – Performance at 8:30 pm \nA Tender Engine is a queer re-imagining of the romance between the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive and her first caretaker\, Alan Pegler. Like\, come on – they were obviously in love! Throughout this 50-minute show\, Megan Arnold simultaneously performs the roles of each character\, the narrator\, and the stage crew. Expect a lip-sync\, a love song\, multiple millionaires bankrupted\, and flying trains. This performance art/experimental theatre/alternative comedy hybrid by Megan Arnold was developed and first presented during her final year in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Guelph. \nAbout the Artist \nMegan Arnold (she/they) is a Filipinx-Canadian artist currently based on Treaty 3 Territory in so-\ncalled Guelph\, ON. Recently\, she has exhibited/performed at Galerie Nicolas Robert (Toronto)\, \nChopped Liver Comedy (Toronto)\, PINCH Cabaret (Waterloo)\, Kazoo! Fest (Guelph)\, and\nEntertainment Club (Salford\, UK). They have participated in artist residencies in Ontario\, the\nUK\, Iceland\, and Newfoundland. Megan obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario\nin 2015 and an MFA from the University of Guelph in 2023. She is a current Board Member at\nEd Video Media Arts Centre.
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/a-tender-engine/
LOCATION:VIVO Media Arts Centre\, 2625 Kaslo St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5M 3G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231013T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231013T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T105854
CREATED:20230926T024849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T211925Z
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SUMMARY:Samra Mayanja - Bone Deep Deliverance (SCREAM II) Accessible Performance
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Jules Lister \nRSVP for FREE at Eventbrite \nDoors at 5:30 pm – Performance at 6:00 pm \nBone Deep Deliverance (SCREAM II) is the continuation of an earlier sound work by the artist\, entitled SCREAM*\, that was vocalised by a black experimental choir that Mayanja assembled in 2020.  \nBone Deep Deliverance (SCREAM II)\, performatively and sonically explores engulfment\, as in; \ntelling a joke  \nabout a secret sky \nthat can’t be told otherwise.   \nWorking within the sonic architecture of Mayanja’s vocal improvisations are two vocalists: Oluwasola Olowo-Ake and Oluwasayo Olowo-Ake\, cellist: Peggy Lee and alto saxophonist: Andromeda Monk. \n*Please see SCREAM I\, the foundational text and music\, written and composed by Samra Mayanja. The piece was developed in Leeds and exhibited at MAMA\, Rotterdam. Developed with vocallists; Banana and Orange\, and pianist\, Rev Chunky. \ntext and the sound piece. \nSound Design: Liza Violet & Samra Mayanja \nCostume: Margaret Zawede \nDramaturgy: Malik Nashad Sharpe \nCollaborators: Herfa Martina Thompson\, Munesu Mukombe\, Dee Byrne and Meera Priyanka \nThis project was made possible through generous support from the Western Front \n \nAbout the Artist \n\n \n Samra Mayanja is an artist and writer whose work across various mediums is unified by an obsession with how life speaks poetry. Her work is always seeking form\, to move beyond strictures\, to be lost and free. \nThe voice\, in her work\, functions as the search party for the body that she once forgot somewhere over there. Her desire to improvise; to create unfiltered\, lucid and meandering utterances\, underpins her writing\, pedagogy\, performance\, installation and film works. 
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/samra-mayanja-bone-deep-deliverance-scream-ii-2/
LOCATION:EDAM Dance\, 303 E 8th Ave Vancouver\, BC V5T 1S1\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231012T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231012T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T105854
CREATED:20230831T193246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T005343Z
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SUMMARY:Zeus Bascon and Jordan Baylon  – “Multong Bakla: A Silent Presence of Beauty”
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm – Performance at 7:00 pm \nRSVP for FREE at The Polygon Gallery \nhttps://livebiennale.ca/2023/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/08/Imagine-Violet-1-1-1-1-1.mp4\n\nWalk between realms where the supernatural and physical bodies come together in an evening showcase of light\, sound\, movement and poetry. “Multong Bakla: A Silent Presence of Beauty” is a divine communal summoning of queer Filipina/o/x spirits\, exploring the enigmatic connections across seas and starlight. \n\n\nMultong Bakla is a ghostly haunting that includes trans-pacific other-worldly projected performances by artists based in the Philippines combined with live performances by artists based in Canada. The performance was coordinated by Zeus Bascon (PH) and Jordan Baylon (CAN) and inspired by two community-building artist workshops.  \n\n\nPhilippines-based Artists: Manikween (performer)\, 1haida (performer)\,  Zeus Bascon (performer\, costume designer\, choreographer)\, Althea Pagdagdagan (vocals)\, Gabe Tiano (music)  \n\n\nCanada-based Performers: Jordan Baylon (poetry)\, Eris Fitz-James (comedy)\, Jose Macasinag (live-projection)\, Joshua Ongcol (dance) \n\n\nMaraming salamat to our workshop kapwa: Keith Boniol\, Alicia Buates-McKenzie\, Fiona Cardino\, Lanice Chep\, Mark Conanan\, Ethan Dailo\, Lawrence Manuel\, Tet Millare\, Pette Shabu\, Tiffany Thomas\, Olive Villanueva \n\n \n*Content Notes: Many elements of this performance incorporate Baybayin (or Alibata)\, a pre-colonial Philippine script being reclaimed through this process as a tool for queer Filipina/o/x peoples to connect to their histories through gesture-making\, choreography and composition.\n \nThis project was made possible through generous support from the Polygon Gallery\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\nPhoto: Beau Gomez\nZeus Bascon (b. 1987 | Laguna\, Philippines) stresses on translations\, transformation and transmutation. He indulges in introspection as part of an exercise of becoming\, finding links between the supernatural and the real in forming truths\, while exploring representations of these narratives through image-making\, participations and the performative. Zeus’ practice of determining the current state of being (coming from a sense of a place) is being realized through Cultivating a Garden\, a life-long endeavor to develop a local creative ecology. Since 2006 he has built his art career through active participation in exhibitions. In 2018\, Bascon became a recipient of the Thirteen Artists Award\, granted by the Cultural Centre of the Philippines. He has participated in residency programs such as Fictive Communities Asia: Koganecho Bazaar 2014 in Yokohama\, Japan and Craft Taitung Creator Exchange Program 2019 in Taitung\, Taiwan. In 2021\, during a pandemic\, he became part of Emerging Islands’ first local residency program in San Juan\, La Union; and as one of the artists supported by M:ST (Mountain Standard Time) 10 Performative Art Biennial global artist exchange program. Read More: linktree Photo: Beau Gomez\n\nJordan Baylon (they/she/he) is a second generation PilipinX artist\, critic and community worker imagining justice and abundance for equity-deserving peoples within the spaces of all our relations: personal\, communal and societal. As an artist\, Jordan’s work gnaws at the intersection of queer identity\, race\, colonialism\, food\, ritual and the deep dark places that represent our possibilities for pleasure and liberation. The subject position of this work explores queer and racialized identities as liminal spaces: both and neither; between\, across and through; both inside and outside; and both literal and imagined. Jordan is also proud to serve as General Director of Chromatic Theatre.\n\nJose Macasinag is a media artist based in Calgary Alberta (Mohkínstsis/Treaty 7 land)\, who is passionate about exploring the intersections of computer technology and the Anthropocene environments. With a deep commitment to creating art that is impactful\, Jose draws on their creative coding background to build immersive experiences that engage viewers on a visceral level.
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/zeus-bascon-and-jordan-baylon-multong-bakla-a-silent-presence-of-beauty/
LOCATION:Polygon Gallery\, 101 Carrie Cates Ct\, \,\, North Vancouver\, BC\, BC V7M 3J4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231010T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T105854
CREATED:20230906T231438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T212103Z
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SUMMARY:Samra Mayanja - Bone Deep Deliverance (SCREAM II)
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Jules Lister \nRSVP for FREE at Eventbrite \nDoors at 7:00 pm – Performance at 7:30 pm \n*Note: There will be a second performance on 13th October at EDAM\, a dance organization below Western Front. This space is accessible to wheelchair users. \nBone Deep Deliverance (SCREAM II) is the continuation of an earlier sound work by the artist\, entitled SCREAM*\, that was vocalised by a black experimental choir that Mayanja assembled in 2020.  \nBone Deep Deliverance (SCREAM II)\, performatively and sonically explores engulfment\, as in; \ntelling a joke  \nabout a secret sky \nthat can’t be told otherwise.   \nWorking within the sonic architecture of Mayanja’s vocal improvisations are two vocalists: Oluwasola Olowo-Ake and Oluwasayo Olowo-Ake\, cellist: Peggy Lee and alto saxophonist: Andromeda Monk. \n*Please see SCREAM I\, the foundational text and music\, written and composed by Samra Mayanja. The piece was developed in Leeds and exhibited at MAMA\, Rotterdam. Developed with vocallists; Banana and Orange\, and pianist\, Rev Chunky. \ntext and the sound piece. \nSound Design: Liza Violet & Samra Mayanja \nCostume: Margaret Zawede \nDramaturgy: Malik Nashad Sharpe \nCollaborators: Herfa Martina Thompson\, Munesu Mukombe\, Dee Byrne and Meera Priyanka \nThis project was made possible through generous support from the Western Front \n \nAbout the Artist \n\n \n Samra Mayanja is an artist and writer whose work across various mediums is unified by an obsession with how life speaks poetry. Her work is always seeking form\, to move beyond strictures\, to be lost and free. \nThe voice\, in her work\, functions as the search party for the body that she once forgot somewhere over there. Her desire to improvise; to create unfiltered\, lucid and meandering utterances\, underpins her writing\, pedagogy\, performance\, installation and film works. 
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/samra-mayanja-bone-deep-deliverance/
LOCATION:Western Front – Grand Luxe Hall\, 303 E 8th Ave\, Vancouver\, canada
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230928T235959
DTSTAMP:20260403T105854
CREATED:20230831T192243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T024221Z
UID:209-1694390400-1695945599@livebiennale.ca
SUMMARY:Lan "Florence" Yee[br]Tips for Surviving the Art World
DESCRIPTION:Tips for Surviving the Art World is a set of seven short form videos that contribute to the democratization of knowledge in the lives of working artists\, created by Lan “Florence” Yee. The series continues Lan’s wish to honour the guidance\, mentorship\, and bonfire talks that have helped them navigate the often-gatekept art world. From fostering communities\, to standards of compensation\, the videos series builds the blocks of self-advocacy for emerging artists. \nVIEW ALL: Tips for Surviving The Art World \n– one video is release each Monday and Thursday from September 7th to 28th. \n\nAbout the Artist\nLan “Florence” Yee is a visual artist and serial collaborator based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. Lan’s work has been exhibited at the Darling Foundry (2022)\, the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art (2021)\, the Art Gallery of Ontario (2020)\, the Textile Museum of Canada (2020)\, and the Gardiner Museum (2019)\, among others. They co-founded the Institute of Institutional Critique with Mattia Zylak in 2019 and the Chinatown Biennial with Arezu Salamzadeh in 2020. They obtained a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from OCAD U. \nVenue\nOnline at: livebiennale.ca instagram liveplatform tiktok \n \nArtist’s Practice\nSpanning media from textiles to signage\, my interdisciplinary practice uses text and labour-intensive creation as a method of “working through” the restrictive belonging we may seek from language\, duty\, and (re)presentation.  As “hard work” is a main measurement from which racialized & migrant bodies are valued\, the contradictions of in/visibility and recognition explore how we may queer desirability. The socio-political and personal history of Cantonese displacement has brought my work to what Desmond Wong calls ‘the intersection of filiality and arrival.’ \nI collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. My text-based pieces borrow the institutional pen of templates\, academia\, and forms\, while displacing their functions through skeptical lived experiences. The works use an ironic and humorous tone to recognize the limits of their own structure\, and to sustain a necessary uncertainty. The intimacy of this doubt gives me the space to interrogate the multiple losses that make up diasporic memory. \nCynical of liberal multiculturalism\, my work attempts to step around easy signifiers of legibility. It recognizes the danger of nostalgia as a site of utopic contemplation\, unjustly flattening marginalized existences. It seeks to deromanticize queer\, racialized experiences and destabilize linear narratives of intergenerational knowledge by showcasing failure\, futility\, repetition\, and dead ends.
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/tips-for-surviving-the-art-world/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Online Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230729T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230729T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T105854
CREATED:20230901T194414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230906T231450Z
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SUMMARY:Patrick Cruz - Kitchen Codex
DESCRIPTION:Kitchen Codex is a site-dependent ongoing food-based project\, collaborative social sculpture\, and communal performance. Since 2015\, Kitchen Codex has manifested\, shared experiences\, and collected recipes in various locations and contexts such as Guelph\, Ontario\, Berlin Germany\, Sudbury\, Ontario\, Mexico City\, Mexico\, Malmö\, Sweden\, and Vancouver\, British Columbia. Most of the recipes have been archived and printed onto a tablecloth where future Kitchen Codex performances happen. \nUsing food as a vessel for sharing knowledge and as a means to view and reflect on personal and collective histories\, the compiled recipes will later be printed into a textile cookbook. Co-authored by the local community\, Kitchen Codex aims to bridge the ritual of communal eating and sharing cultural awareness through the digestion of history and the joint solidarity of cultural appreciation during times of socio-political divisiveness. \n 
URL:https://livebiennale.ca/2023/event/patrick-cruz-kitchen-codex/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:LIVE2023,Performances
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