tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75314334916283200962024-03-27T02:24:11.304-07:00LIVE BiennaleLIVE, performance art, biennale, festival, vacouver, british columbia, canadaLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-39981432654141390182012-01-18T17:33:00.000-08:002012-01-18T17:33:22.041-08:00Anna Syczewska at Live 2011LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-24819740362635939162011-11-22T04:06:00.000-08:002011-11-22T04:06:49.017-08:00Turner Prize performs at BesLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-47168944490808703982011-10-03T15:48:00.000-07:002011-10-03T15:59:08.261-07:00Day after: some musingsPerformance art, like music and dance, is distinguished by its lack of an art object. Unlike painters and sculptures, once the performance art event is complete there remains no trace of it, except in the memory of those who were there to witness the performance. Artists like Vassan Sittiket and The Turner Prize use accessories during their work. But the viewing of a piece of broken glass from LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-72091093241726361542011-10-03T14:08:00.001-07:002011-10-03T14:11:24.606-07:00Vive la Live Biennale - Masashi Ogura Click on the image to enlarge it.La Live Biennale 2011 avait un pas mal de succès comme show-case des performances actuelles. La variété était évidente depuis l'acte archaïque ou émouvant jusqu'au high-entertainment pour le public de Vancouver. Parmi les performateurs, Nobuo Kubota a montré que l'art de performance est faisable sur une chaise seule et sans un grand décor (la tradition japonaiseLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-28949248610586175972011-09-29T16:54:00.000-07:002011-10-02T17:17:05.547-07:00Day before the endMy friend Robbie works in a Pediatric clinic, where he sees the gamut of disease and accident that come though the clinic door. There are cases of morbid congenital syndromes and homicidal neglect. It is a difficult job, seeing children die, telling the parents of their child’s illness, working with the Child Welfare Services.Robbie accompanied me to Saturday evening’s presentation of the Live LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-90356766597118482862011-09-29T09:07:00.000-07:002011-09-29T10:29:35.206-07:00FINAL RE-MARKSre-LIVE Vancouver was a tableau of tribute artworks at VIVO Media Arts Centre on September 25 2011. Installed like a gallery, it became an art exhibition with live art works that were scraping, rubbing, running around, wiggling and jiggling in the corners and along the walls.Sponsored by the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grant Program, it was a reiteration and redistribution of LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-46336079262829118912011-09-28T15:21:00.000-07:002011-09-28T15:21:55.911-07:00Pancho Lopez performs at VIVO, September 23, 2011. video by Elisha BurrowsLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-50038411578245325322011-09-28T00:49:00.000-07:002011-09-30T14:40:55.041-07:00re-LIVE feat. Raymond Boisjoly, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Curtis Grahauer, Brian Lye, Elizabeth Milton, Ron Tran. Curated by Jesse Birch.An imaginative approach to addressing the ephemerality of performance, re-LIVE was a warm and intelligent wind-down to the LIVE festivities. Using not only performance, but also drawing, installation, video, and fashion, six young artists reinterpreted important performance works created in Vancouver. Bringing new insight to the originals, the exhibition also served as a loving tribute to local LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-90519891189286792352011-09-27T10:41:00.000-07:002011-09-27T13:38:26.183-07:00Arti GrabowskiPreparatory Remarks Spray your face with paint. White face, red mouth. Spray your eyes black.Sharpen your knives. Or at least test them out on your foot.Try not to step on the floor. Maybe nail your foot to something comfortable, like a stool. Or tape your foot to a big rock. Spray mystery fluid when prepping, fixing, cleaning, or to add flavour and emphasis to important remarks.Video self for LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-32427578765915543022011-09-27T00:37:00.000-07:002011-09-27T10:19:19.520-07:00Day ??: Fiat luxI arrived at the courtyard of the Firehall Arts Centre around 11:20 Saturday morning. The four-hour durational performance by Margaret Dragu, Grace Salez, Judith Price and Sinéad O’Donnell had begun at 11 and was already in full swing.The performance of these four women was quite different from those of Pancho Lopez or Christian Messier, which had taken place earlier in the festival program. LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-86493105399218070822011-09-26T21:44:00.000-07:002011-09-26T21:44:50.251-07:00UJ3RK5 karaoke at re-LIVELIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-14891579892360506022011-09-26T11:22:00.000-07:002011-09-26T11:29:51.752-07:00SuviFirst off, I'd like to thank Suvi, since through her piece, I got to lock lips with two very handsome strangers. I hope I didn't give them my cold. Beginning her performance by kissing a member of the audience, Suvi requests that this kiss be passed around the room from person to person as she performs. Later this kiss circles back to me as a kiss on the hand. The whole piece dances around LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-57545508766624780502011-09-26T10:39:00.000-07:002011-09-26T10:45:21.671-07:00Day 10 -- The smashing finaleIt was the last instant of Pancho Lopez’s piece Friday night that transformed it from a banal repetitive action to a powerful act of gratuitous poetry. Without that moment when the baseball bat slammed into the overflowing glass vase of Coca-Cola, shattering it into countless pieces sending umpteen liters of coke spilling onto the gallery floor, what would the performance have been?A man pours LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-55962533411621464922011-09-26T00:42:00.000-07:002011-10-04T10:12:41.362-07:00Kurt Johannessen : The Almost SecretWe enter a room with chairs placed in a circle around a big stack of papers and a large glass vessel filled with something beige that could be sand. Theatre lights are on, but someone switches them to the overhead fluorescents. The effect is much less spectacular. Kurt Johannessen enters, tall and barefoot. Affectionately, he touches the lip of the glass and turns his attention to the tower of LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-77626290572842143272011-09-25T23:59:00.000-07:002011-09-25T23:59:16.322-07:00Kurt Johannessen at Vivo, September 24, 2011, video by Elisha BurrowsLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-50947083018801647912011-09-25T22:42:00.000-07:002011-09-25T22:42:58.201-07:00Moe Satt at Vivo September 23 2011, video by Elisha BurrowsLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-2208766895838339142011-09-25T16:00:00.000-07:002011-09-26T00:49:32.006-07:00Pancho Lopez: AngerIt looks like the beginning of a magic show. Black velvety curtains surround an immaculate white plinth, on top of which rests a voluminous glass fish bowl. Pancho emerges, looking a bit like a game show host: red tie, white shirt, and black pants. Some game show-type music comes on the sound system. A water bottle emerges from behind the plinth, he takes a sip.The show begins. One after another,LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-31442607993966169072011-09-25T14:19:00.000-07:002011-09-26T00:50:07.667-07:00Anna SyczewskaA pyramid of rotten tomatoes and a motorized wheelchair greet us as a sample of music, like tortured cows over an industrial beat, loops over the sound system. The wheelchair slowly turns and we are under the indifferent gaze of Anna Syczewska. She sits on her throne in aviators, white gloves, with a bottle of wine, and cigarettes. She surveys the crowd or perhaps nothing at all. A man dressed inLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-22100767925144703872011-09-25T11:26:00.000-07:002011-09-25T11:26:02.938-07:00Arti Grabowski (Krakow, Poland)LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-91869926942174986312011-09-25T10:57:00.000-07:002011-09-25T13:05:17.945-07:00Day 10: Crunch timeAt the end of the evening, one of Anna Syczewska’s high-heeled shoes, the ones with the 10-inch spikes welded to their soles, remained impaled in the wall. The other lay at the base of the wall where it fell, under the gouged drywall. Her electric wheelchair stood empty, its wheels covered in crushed tomato, the result of its passage over the pile of rotten tomatoes. The tech team had put awayLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-89924900468013315882011-09-25T02:59:00.000-07:002011-09-25T14:23:32.158-07:00Moe Satt : F+F (Fingers and Face)There is only a chair, a light shining on it, as well as a video projector and camera. Projector and camera feedback to produce an infinite number of Moe Satts as Moe Satt shows us an infinite number of gestures using his fingers and face. He takes off a sweater, a coat and sandals, hangs them neatly on the back of the chair. Wearing only a wrap, he kneels on the chair and bows over, massaging LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-80474765659020217932011-09-25T02:57:00.000-07:002011-09-27T10:54:30.693-07:00Anne-Sophie Turion : Original Soundtrack for Blank TapeWe see a banquet table, immaculately set for seven with red napkins and white flowers. In a stunning red dress, Anne-Sophie Turion walks to the front of the stage. Well, technically it's the back. The usual seating and staging of VIVO has been flipped around so we are staring at the window of the tech booth like it's a movie screen. The technician Bobby, like Turion, is dressed in red. The top LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-70557805913833719312011-09-25T00:08:00.000-07:002011-09-25T00:08:33.989-07:00Arti Grabowski (Krakow, Poland)LIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-80145763821027156202011-09-24T23:09:00.000-07:002011-09-24T23:09:05.136-07:00Moe Satt's performance at Vivo September 23, 2011, video by Elisha BurrowsLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7531433491628320096.post-22097289515362555642011-09-24T16:51:00.000-07:002011-09-24T16:51:59.727-07:00Margaret Dragu and friends - Part of CHAOSLIVEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05689089471351795899noreply@blogger.com0