Cinéma
(Montréal,
2004)
A space with large storefront windows was converted into a theatre. Rows of seats inside the space face the windows, looking out onto the street. The window becomes a screen, when viewed from the inside. From the street, the space appears as a theatre as if viewed from the stage. Live performance takes place in the park and on the street opposite the window. The performance is both ambient, hardly distinguishable from the every-day activities of the area, as well as explicit dramatic actions. (click image for more)
FLEX!
(Montréal,
2003)
A 10 minute lightning performance. This sound work involves a chorus of 25 people. 25 people approached the large storefront windows of the SAT (Societé des arts technologiques), Montreal from different points in the park across the street. They hit the glass and tap, pound and slap, building in intensity for approximately 10 minutes, turning the large interior space into a giant resonating chamber. When the sound reaches a peak of intensity the crowd suddenly breaks and disperses. (click image for more)
PUSH
(Montréal,
2003)
"PUSH" is a collaboration with artists Shauna Beharry (Montreal), Isabelle Bernier (Montreal), Pierre Giner (Paris) and David Miller (Montreal). A conversation between each of the artists and myself, hovering between a collective installation and a curated group show, about the relationship between photography and violence. (click image for more)
En masse
(Montréal,
2003)
"En masse" is a collaboration with choreographer and dancer Suzanne Miller at Espace Tangente, Montreal. A movement work for 75 people, both dancers and non-dancers which explored non synchronised movement for a large group. (click image for more)
Jacksonville (2003)
Project for "Radical; Vaguely" Montreal/Bulgaria exchange initiated by Rositza Daskalova, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2003. The piece in two parts (a gallery installation and a poster project on the streets of Sofia) is about the private-sector American 'diplomat', Bruce Jackson, well known for his actions in the region promoting NATO, good governance and intervention in Iraq. (click image for more)
MOAT
(London, 2005)
Live event and installation; Canada House, London & Space, London 2005. MOAT is a performance and video installation recorded in the moat surrounding Canada House on Trafalgar Square in London merging live performance with video surveillance technology in a work exploring surveillance and political violence. It is a multi-screen video piece with live video and sound mix based on surveillance camera technology. Video and audio from live performance is mixed with pre-recorded material to create a mix specific to each event. An installation version is a mixed and edited version of the same material. (click image for more)
Duet
Shumen Biennial, Shumen, Bulgaria, summer 2006
Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax, June 2006
Espace SD, Beirut, Lebanon, July, 2006
DUET is a video which is a choreographic echo of news footage depicting the movements of Hassam Abdo, a teenage suicide bomber disarmed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Nablus in 2004. In the original footage orders to remove the bomb and undress are shouted by soldiers off-camera. In the video several performers reproduce the movements of Hassam Abdo including a 'duet' where the movements are guided by the hands of another performer, a shift from the invisible power exerted from behind the camera's eye to direct communication through touch. (click image for more)
I Don't Want To Be In Your Movie
'far beyond'; para globe, Tokyo , summer 2006
A
text work related to DUET and CINEMA. The text is an approximate
transcription of the words of a woman reacting to a performance of this
work in an outdoor public space, objecting to the intrusion of this
event into her territory.
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