Tonight I am going to be an Insecurity guard at an impromptu taxi stand where Anakana Schofield is going to re-contextualize the act of reading and being read to with Helen Potrebenko's book called Taxi! This is the first of a series of interventions with the aim to making audiences aware of this Vancouver novel with the ultimate aim of inspiring people to read the novel, buy copies of it, and engage in critical dialogue about the work. I've never been to one of these events, but I'm looking forward to it, even though my feet are killing me today and I want to put them in nice warm booties and elevate them.
NOT SENT LETTERS & GUESTS
@ dharmalab
Friday Night, January 14, 2011, 8pm SHARP!
@ dharmalab, Vancouver, 1814 Pandora
(N. of Hastings, E. of Commercial @ Salsbury)
$5 suggested donation (toward production expenses)
Please join us for an evening of interdisciplinary works by
ANAKANA SCHOFIELD & LORI WEIDENHAMMER
KATHERINE SOMODY
LEANNEJ & MY NAME IS SCOT
RINA LIDDLE & NOLA SEMCZYSZYN
RON STUBER & COLIN McLAINE
SORESSA GARDNER & DENNIS E. BOLEN
JEREMY TODD w/ MARGOT LEIGH BUTLER, NATASHA McHARDY, DINKA PIGNON, YI XIN TONG, DENNIS E. BOLEN & ANDREW SHORT
w/ postlude music by CORNER & friends.
NOT SENT LETTERS & GUESTS form public constellations of engaged interdisciplinary and durational practice, uncompromised by the realpolitik conditions of contemporary art as a professional sphere. Artist Jeremy Todd organizes each event as an extension of his continuous Not Sent Letters project (see below). The interrelatedness of art, society & everyday life is critically explored amongst a diverse plurality of artists & publics.
ANAKANA SCHOFIELD & LORI WEIDENHAMMER (two Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artists & friends) expand Schofield's dialogue w/ Helen Potrebenko's 1975 Vancouver novel Taxi! through an embodied exploration of transaction involving readers/listeners. Weidenhammer's Security Guard examines these encounters by providing "market research" on various sitters.
KATHERINE SOMODY (part artist, critic, skeptic & cautious romantic) screens the first in a series of self-portraits exploring relations between music & video, memory & storytelling, textual & somatic language - while trying (perhaps in vain) to disentangle the personal from the socially prescribed.
LEANNEJ & MY NAME IS SCOT (two interdisciplinary artists engaging issues of class, identity & agency while living in Vancouver's DTES) screen Calculating 63: More than 15 years, over 63 lives, way too many excuses, endless questions, zero good reasons & only 1 perpetrator? Something in this equation doesn’t add up. This collaboration sifts through the statistics, looking for feeling & meaning behind the numbers and finding out that poverty, violence & exploitation can disappear just about anyone.
RINA LIDDLE & NOLA SEMCZYSZYN (two interdisciplinary artists exploring art making as a methodology for analysis & criticism of social structures) present DIY Lover, a performative inquiry into the material configuration of dating guides.
RON STUBER & COLIN McLAINE (a drummer/percussionist & visual artist/composer) perform Shed, a work composed in a Strathcona shed for electric guitar and drums that might also involve the shedding of light, skin and inhibitions.
SORESSA GARDNER & DENNIS E. BOLEN (a singer/composer/performance artist & novelist/editor/teacher/journalist) combine prose, poetry and electronica within a new collaborative work @ Not Sent Letters & Guests.
NOT SENT LETTERS is an ongoing series of epistolary detours by JEREMY TODD (an entanglement w/ practices of the self & the politics of meaning) involving online image/text posts, digital film shorts & multi-media performances. The dharmalab letters set will include live scores by ANDREW SHORT, image projection, & letters selected from the project blog & read by MARGOT LEIGH BUTLER, NATASHA McHARDY, DINKA PIGNON, YI XIN TONG & DENNIS E. BOLEN.
Explore previous Not Sent Letters & Guests events here: http://notsentlettersandguests.blogspot.com
Email Jeremy if you'd like to host or contribute to a future N. S. L. & G. event: jeremytodd@shaw.ca
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