draft four
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May 22nd, 2009
DRAFT FOUR
(a bring-your-own-headphones event)
Concept and Choreography by Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner
Featuring Writers: Daniel Cockburn, Norah Franklin, Simon Rabyniuk and Caylie Staples
June 3 – 6, 2009
Performances start promptly at 8pm each evening,
Reception: Saturday June 6th, to follow performance Draft Four is a collaborative performance between Choreographers Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner and invited writers Daniel Cockburn, Norah Franklin, Simon Rabyniuk and Caylie Staples. Through performative and spoken investigations into movement and action these artists question our relationship to narrative. Throughout the duration of the performance viewers will be asked to interact with varying forms of linear and non-linear narration, including visual, written, recorded and performed methods of storytelling. We commonly look to narrative to help things “make sense.” However, the sensorial variation found in Draft Four reveals narratives that are altered and re-positioned, each dependent on ones proximity and interaction with the surrounding environment. Individual moments become joined and personal experiences shared?
@ XPACE Cultural Centre, 58 Ossington Ave
mark pellegrino @ Images festival + xspace
Pellegrino’s project is about the artist’s never-ending pursuit for conceptual identity throughout time, and video as a vehicle to reach those goals. In VideoSPACE: The Psyche-Master Chronicles, Pellegrino argues that video unlike film, allows the viewer to enter a heterotopic space where he/she assumes the role of the camera and how, unlike our perceivable/bodily space/time, the video artist can control and manipulate the space/time of this ‘other space’ that the viewer temporarily inhabits.
Mark Pellegrino is a Toronto-based video artist who works with antiquated video equipment, experimental software and electronics to explore the discourse, structure and anomalies of the medium. He is currently the Technical Coordinator at Vtape and will receive his BFA from the Integrated Media department at Ontario College of Art & Design in 2009.
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from the vtape days…
“Young”equates with speed - of movement and of mind - an ad man knows that you can stretch the or shrink the appearance of time by how fast you put your message across. The older I got the quicker the time passed, but I seemed to get less done. I couldn’t keep up. It was a perfect idea - to commit a crime in order to experience time - to stop time and live in that moment - knowing that the penalty for failure would be a surfeit of time imposed by a jealous society in all its interminable slowness.
neil r. armstrong, video artist, 1983