Program
Friday, January 17
I STAND IN
JULIE VULCAN // SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
FIFTH PARALLEL GALLERY - UNIVERSITY OF REGINA - 3737 WASCANA PARKWAY RIDDELL CENTRE
11AM - 7PM // FREE!
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I Stand In reflects upon the difficulty of personally understanding and processing global human tragedy. We think we empathise but really we intellectualise. In this work 32 volunteer participants ‘stand in’ for a faceless individual while Julie consecutively attends to each one in a stylised ‘corpse-washing’ ritual. Over eight hours, the physical remains of the activity - oil imprinted shrouds - accumulate in the space as a ghostly testimony to the lost. Media connectivity means we can no longer claim ignorance to world events but this awareness often leaves us feeling ineffective and powerless. In this durational work, the artist focuses upon how we can affect a more authentic response anchored in the here and now. By being a proxy, each participant puts a face to a number, a human presence to a concept and collectively returns the cold hard statistic of a death toll to the flesh and blood of an individual and what it means to be mortal. The audience experience is a haptic one, connection with the artists touch on each individual body eventually transcends this ritual for the dead into a ritual for living.
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Julie Vulcan is a Sydney based interdisciplinary artist with a strong practice in performance, installation, durational and site-specific work. Her early video+sound installations investigated time, memory and place. These were presented in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth by the 4th and 7th Australian International Video Festivals, ARX 3, Experimenta and the Performance Space, Sydney. Julie’s video installation work informed her transition into performance and live art in which her highly stylised and visual aesthetic continued to expand and create space for more intimate encounters with an audience. Much of her work, subsequently, situates itself in the very personal, soliciting contributions and/or participation from the general public. She creates environments where her intention is to reflect the macro within the micro and provide a place where insecurities are equally matched by wondrous moments. Julie proposes that life in the everyday can be extraordinary and random collisions can be revolutionary. Alongside her solo practice Julie is a collaborator, director, mentor and advocate for experimental performance forms. Since 1993 she has been a core member of the performance and live art collectives Unreasonable Adults, Frumpus and Icarus and has performed in ‘Finale’ 2007/8 with Pacitti Company (UK) and the video works of Australian artists Anna Davis (A/PROXY[MATE] ENCOUNTERS 2006) and Sam James (Dreamshelving 2011). Recent works include ‘I Stand In’ SPILL Performance Festival 2013 (UK); Redress #6 Exist-ence 5 2013 (AUS), Redress #5 Dimanche Rouge #21 2012 (AUS), Qubit Performance 2011 (NZ); ‘Spotlight Bunny’ Underbelly Arts 2011 (AUS). julie@julievulcan.net
ART FOR LUNCH - KIRA O'REILLY
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA // 3737 WASCANA PARKWAY - RIDDELL CENTRE - ROOM 050
12 NOON - 1 PM
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GLORY HOLE //
HONEY //
RE RE BIRTHINGJOSHUA VETTIVELU - TORONTO //
JULIE TOLENTINO (WITH STOSH FILA) – LOS ANGELES //
HUMBOLDT MAGNUSSEN - SASKATOON/TORONTOARTESIAN ON 13TH // 2627 13TH AVENUE @ ANGUS ST.
DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM // PERFORMANCES FROM 8PM - 12AM
COMPLIMENTARY SNACKS // CASH BARPERFORMANCES ARE DURATIONAL AND OCCUR SIMULTANEOUSLY. AUDIENCE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND ENTIRE PERFORMANCES AND/OR TO COME AND GO THROUGHOUT THE EVENING.
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GLORY HOLE //
JOSHUA VETTIVELU - TORONTOGlory Hole consists of an architecture that obstructs through reflection and a performance that produces an object (seemingly endlessly, seemingly autonomously) outwards. Six hundred synthetic Easter lilies are bound together and are slowly excreted into the gallery space. At the end of this process, the garland is undone and the process begins again. Glory Hole reflects a moment where the cultural, the sentimental, and the spiritual become commercial commodity.
Joshua Vettivelu is a queer, South Asian mixed race artist based in the Haudenosaunee and Mississauga of New Credit territory on Turtle Island, also known as Toronto, Canada. Vettivelu’s work explores the persistence of colonialism and pervasiveness of whiteness within the realms of desire, homonationalism and immigration and utilizes the interiority of the body as an unknowable and imagined space that houses these larger internalized narratives. Vettivelu's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Exhibitions of note include Khush: A Show of Love at the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives Gallery, SuperNova Performance Festival in Washington, DC, Dreamworlds presented by Eastern Edge in St. John's NL, 011+91 | 011+92 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga and most recently a film and installation at the 2013 MIX Film Festival in New York.
HONEY //
JULIE TOLENTINO (WITH STOSH FILA) - LOS ANGELESHONEY is a transparent exchange - an installation involving two people and a consistent flow of golden drops of honey between them. Slow, repetitive, and weighted, this work is constructed as a movement performance, specifically, a duet.
Tolentino is the receiver, endurer, memory collector, and signifier of death, her mouth open in the shape of the last kiss, the “O” of death. Illuminating the productiveness and destructiveness of the ecstatic state, she swallows, filling and spilling, and her O of ecstasy is enhanced by the drawn out O emitted from the multiple hand-recorders offering Chevela Vargas’ “Soledad” lyrics, to which she moves, records, erases. The partner/performer, Stosh Fila, is overseer, activator and participant. As the designer of the droplet's shape, intensity, speed, and velocity (the one who squeezes, advances, and withdraws) Fila’s movement expressively and delicately recapitulates each swallow.
Drawing on Greek and philosophical contemplation of ecstasy/extasis, HONEY explores the exposures between the self and Other(s), rather, a “being outside-of-itself” like a turning out of the inside of the self. The HONEY performance stages this inversion through a contemplation of the gut (the pink hidden flesh) and as wounds and words often unexpressed or suppressed, as the honey activates a simultaneous opening and shutting off of the throat.
The pouring, manipulation, receipt, and flow into a throaty swallow enact a resistance and persistence, composing a duet that evokes the excessive sweetness of drowning and the aesthetic perversity of “le petit mort” alongside the viewer's distanced and sticky association. In this sense, HONEY invokes the mouth, memory, hidden texts, fluids and boundaries, recurrent themes in Tolentino’s body of work.
Julie Tolentino’s career spans over two decades of dance, installation, site-specific durational performance with diverse roles of host, producer, mentor, collaborator with artists such as Meg Stuart, Ron Athey, Madonna, Catherine Opie, David Rousseve, Juliana Snapper, Diamanda Galas, Stosh Fila, Robert Crouch/VOLUME, CANDIDATE, Aaron Turner, Faith Collocia, Mark So, Nick Duran, Lovett/Codagnone, Gran Fury, Rodarte. Tolentino is deeply influenced by her extensive experience as caregiver; Eastern and aquatic bodyworker; a highly-disciplined contemporary dancer; and as proprietress of Clit Club in New York. Her diverse and exploratory duet/solo practice includes installation, dance-for-camera and durational performance engaging improvisation, one-to-one, score-making and fluids, including blood, tears, and honey. As an extension of her practice after twenty five years in NYC, she designed and built a solar-powered live-work residency in the Mohave Desert: FERAL House*Studio where she explores the remote forms of physical inquiry through landscape and texts. She has received numerous grants and fellowships. She is currently the editor of Provocations in The Drama Review-TDR/MIT PRESS. Her works have been supported and presented by The Kitchen, Participant Inc., Invisible Exports, Pact Zollverein, Performa’05, Haus of World Cultures amongst many others. In the UK; Spill Festival, Tramway, DanceExchange, queerupnorth. Recent tours include England, Europe, Myanmar, the Philippines at Manila Contemporary, Green Papaya Gallery and Theaterworks in Singapore. She has been presented at Broad Art Space at UCLA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Commonwealth & Council: RAISED BY WOLVES, Move-In Honor Fraser 2011-12, PSI19 at Stanford, Install Weho; The Reanimation Library Project in Joshua Tree and FIRE IN HER BELLY at Maloney Fine Art, a full-time residency at the New Museum Fall '13 and performances: Performa’13, HDTS 2013, UCLA 2014, NYC Abu Dhabi and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts In-Community in 2014.
RE RE BIRTHING //
HUMBOLDT MAGNUSSEN – SASKATOON/TORONTORe Re Birthing was first performed in Sweden and included dragging, painting, washing, and sewing a canvas bag which turned into a DIY womb. Once complete the womb was inverted to reveal a painting. For the third Re Birth Humboldt will complete the durational piece in front of a live audience, bringing a once private ritual into public view. Humboldt wants to use the potential of performance art’s transformative power as a tool to create a change in the artist’s life. Through this ritual Humboldt will attempt to Re Birth himself in order to reflect on the past while re inventing himself. Over the period of the night, you will be able to see Humboldt shift inside the canvas bag/womb painting the inner walls with acrylic paint, sleeping, and restlessly making his invisible need to start his life over visible.
Humboldt Magnussen is an emerging performance artist who is currently finishing his Master’s of Fine Arts degree at OCAD University in the Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design Program. He was raised in rural Saskatchewan and is very excited to return to his home province since moving to Toronto for university. He completed his undergraduate degree with distinction at Concordia University with a focus in drawing, while also studying at the Malmo Art Academy in Sweden where he began experimenting with performance art.