centre d'artistes.artist run centre
a four day pyjama party with board games, ovaltine and bed time stories.
a project by Moynan King (Toronto)
with Nathalie Claude and Paul-Patrick Charbonneau
in collaboration with Studio 303
from January 13 to 16 janvier 2008, from 4pm to 10pm
at articule (262 Fairmount O.)
opening le 13 janvier à 19h
Mothering is a live art experience developed with support from Studio 303. This is also an evocative visual art installation / interactive performance where the audience engages fully with the work and becomes a part of the installation itself.
This work examines the performative nature of human relationships and the power of play within relational performance. Complete with costumes, lines and gestures, it mimics a familiar 'and familial' setting while reinventing an established "normal" relationship, exploring and confounding the line between audience and performer.
Mothering makes the audience, and thereby the community in which it is presented, significant in the process and within the art itself. It asks the audience to go on a trip with Moynan King, to tell the story with her, to be completely present in the creation and consumption of art.
Moynan King is a Toronto based performer, director, writer and curator. Moynan's interactive performance installations include The Beauty Salon, Walk In Clinic (created in collaboration with pop art duo Trixie & Beever,), and The Invitation, and The Unsuspecting Audience (collaborations with visual artist, Sherri Hay). Moynan's new performance installation, Mothering, is the focus of a residency at Studio 303. Moynan's solo and collaborative stage performances have been shown across Canada and the US. She is an accomplished theatre director and the author of several plays. Also an actor, Moynan has over fifty professional film, theatre and TV credits. Moynan is the director of Hysteria: A Festival of Women was director and co-director of the Rhubarb!Festival of New Plays for a total of 7 years. She is currently Associate Artist at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto.