{"id":294,"date":"2023-09-01T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=294"},"modified":"2023-09-20T09:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T16:12:33","slug":"queen-tilly-and-the-marys","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/event\/queen-tilly-and-the-marys\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Milton &#8211; Queen Tilly and the Marys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doors at 7:00 pm &#8211; Performance at 7:30 pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Queen Tilly and the Marys<\/span><\/i><\/b><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\">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\u00a0x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam), S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh (Squamish), and s\u0259lilw\u0259ta\u026c (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.\u00a0\u00a0<i>Queen Tilly and the Marys<\/i>\u00a0preserves local history through a mode of storytelling that reverberates with the vulgar glory of maximalist femininity, Slavic bravado and comedic criticality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This project was made possible through generous support from the British Columbia Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-571\" src=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/ArtsCouncil-BCID-lockup-rgb-pos-300x50.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/ArtsCouncil-BCID-lockup-rgb-pos-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/ArtsCouncil-BCID-lockup-rgb-pos-1024x172.png 1024w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/ArtsCouncil-BCID-lockup-rgb-pos-768x129.png 768w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/ArtsCouncil-BCID-lockup-rgb-pos.png 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-572\" src=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/CCA_RGB_colour_e-300x55.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/CCA_RGB_colour_e-300x55.png 300w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/CCA_RGB_colour_e-1024x188.png 1024w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/CCA_RGB_colour_e-768x141.png 768w, https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/09\/CCA_RGB_colour_e.png 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>About the Artist<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Elizabeth Milton\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0(she\/they) is a mixed European settler artist of Croatian and British ancestry who\u00a0lives as a guest on the\u00a0unceded territories of\u00a0the xwm\u0259\u03b8kw\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam), Skwxw\u00fa7mesh\u00a0(Squamish)\u00a0and S\u0259l\u0313\u00edlw\u0259ta\u0294 (Tsleil-Waututh)\u00a0First 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.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has been exhibited and performed in Canada, The United States and Europe. Recent performances and screenings include: Dynasty Handbag\u2019s Weirdo Night (Los Angeles),\u00a0<i>A Guided Mediation with VHS Eyelashes<\/i>, VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver) and\u00a0<i>The Bottom of the Fountain is Painted Turquoise\u00a0<\/i>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doors at 7:00 pm &#8211; Performance at 7:30 pm Queen Tilly and the Marys\u00a0is a raucous response to musical theatre that explores comedic absurdity, camp materiality and the radical potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":295,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/Vancouver","_EventStartDate":"2023-10-14 19:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2023-10-14 20:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2023-10-15 02:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2023-10-15 03:00:00","_EventShowMap":true,"_EventShowMapLink":true,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"prefix","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[206],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,4],"class_list":["post-294","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-live2023","tribe_events_cat-performances","cat_live2023","cat_performances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/294\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livebiennale.ca\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}