Interconnected Performers

in collaboration with InTerreArt (http://interreart.blogspot.com)

 

Performances by Tagny Duff, André Éric Letourneau and Nicole Fournier
Curator: Nicole Fournier

 

Sunday February 01, 2009
at articule (262 Fairmount W.)

 

Performing Diagnostics
Installation-performance starting at noon, action at 6:30pm
Drive-in for sled dogs
Happening at 6:30pm
The Interconnections of people,dogs, fungi, food,...performing
Installation-performance starting at noon, action at 7pm and 7:30pm

 

Please note your dogs are invited to the performance, starting at 6:30pm.

 

Interconnected Performers showcases some of the concerns of interspecies relations, interhuman relations, bioworks, ecologies and interconnections with non-human performers. The event addresses human interrelationships and collectivity using living matter, bacteria, fungi and cellular collectivity (which make up humans and other species), along with non-cellular, viral performance, interconnected to life. It is about invisible performances that take place in the microcosm and the macrocosm.
http://interconnectedperformers.blogspot.com/

 

Tagny Duff's performance-installation, Performing Diagnostics, invites gallery visitors to collectively perform the testing for the presence of HIV via protocols performed through the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The "testing" will be performed with garbage collected from recycling bins, the antithesis of sterile technique practiced in laboratory environments. The performance will also feature a collective action where visitors are invited to dispose of the waste (and ultimately the installation). The gallery becomes a place for creating and processing biological waste and pathogens created by its human-animal visitors.
To participate in the ELISA testing aspect of the performance please email tagny3@sympatico.ca before Sunday February 1.
http://performingdiagnostics.wordpress.com/

 

André Éric Letourneau's Drive-in for sled dogs is about the transportation of pollen by mammals, in this case dogs. As mammals brush against plants in the wilderness, they pick up pollen on their fur or consume seeds and excrete them, thus allowing for the propagation of plant species. Drive-in for sled dogs will be set up in front of articule. There, dogs will be parked and invited to watch the very first episode of the "Six Million Dollar Man". Attracted to food painted on the storefront window, they will eat, devour, or at the very least lick Steve Austin, digesting him and expelling him further away, hence pollinating the soil with his bionic seed.

 

Nicole Fournier will present The interconnections of people, dogs, fungi, food...performing. This work brings together recycled furniture altered by the climate, food preparation and decomposing food (composting). Fournier will use her voice, weedeater, razor, hair dryer, drill and toy shark to perform actions on food and plants in earth that will be cooking on a stovetop. Intermixed with play between herself and her dog "Whistler", Fournier will also be preparing and sharing food with the public. The wildness of unpredictable improvised actions will be paired with planned or controlled actions, such as painting food on the gallery wall, which spectators and their dogs will be invited to eat.