Sunday, June 20th, 2021 + Saturday, July 24th, 2021 + Saturday, August 28th, 2021, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
At Jarry park – Exact location will be confirmed in the week proceeding the event.
In English
$10 to 20 (sliding scale) — nobody turned away for lack of funds
Please respect all sanitary health measures in place at the time of the event, and be mindful of each others comfort levels.
Remote Readings is a series of live radio broadcasts hosted by Burcu Emeç and Christopher Willes. The project initiated out of their research into expanded concepts of citation in performance making as both ethical and embodied practice. Developed as part of Studio 303’s 2021 curators-in-residence program, the two met regularly throughout the pandemic, and through the simple pleasure of reading to each other a lasting question emerged: how is my art practice responsible to other people?
In the art world, practices of individual artists and collectives alike are perpetually communicated through the logic of property and ownership. Yet current legal frameworks of these concepts often work against the development of responsible practices for working together. And individual reputation and authorial attribution remain the primary means by which artworks are circulated, and how some become more visible over others. With this in mind, Burcu and Christopher have been asking: can we trouble the idea of ownership, and replace it with belonging? What are alternate economic models for artistic production that center alliance and reciprocity? What new concepts of relation emerge when working methodologies are focused on the commons?
Remote Readings will explore these questions over three episodes transmitted in the park. Hosted by Burcu and Christopher, and including contributions from invited artists, each event will be experienced sonically (and at a physical distance) through portable radios. We hope you will join us.
Developed in partnership with Public Recordings.
Please note, this event consists of conversations and readings between English-speaking artists, transmitted through radio waves. As such, French translation/captioning is unavailable.
Burcu Emeç is practicing care, political action and rigorous curiosity. As a performance maker and theatre artist, her approach mixes social commentary, active listening and visual art. She is interested in subverting codes of meaning and dancing between the magical and the daily. Burcu’s collaborative and independent works have been presented in a wide range of settings in Montreal and Toronto. Recent accolades include the Mécènes investis pour les arts and the OFFTA Hybridity Award.
Christopher is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and dance dramaturge based in Toronto and Montreal. Moving between communities and frameworks of experimental music/sound, dance, and visual arts, his work focuses on the subject and practices of listening. He is part of a team that co-leads Public Recordings, a Toronto based organization focused on interdisciplinary performance research. He studied music at the University of Toronto, and holds an MFA from Bard College (USA).
EPISODE TWO GUEST: Multi-award nominated, winner and loser, creator Brian Solomon is of Anishinaabe and Irish heritage, born in Shebahonaning on the North Channel of Lake Huron. As a creator his work is multidisciplinary, raw, challenging and full of spirit. His commissions have ranged from community-rooted works with over 100 interpreters, solos in trees, to animated installations of landfill. His works have been presented and toured across Turtle Island and abroad. He is passionate about helping people relearn the nature of their ancient bodies, and take back the space those bodies occupy. More info at: electricmoose.ca
EPISODE THREE GUESTS: Jamie Ross (1987, Canada) is a visual artist, a city gardener and an educator. In recent films, Radical Faerie elders help young people memorize the chants sung in 20th-century Queer street battles with the police; Pagan men incarcerated in Canadian federal prisons regale their chaplain with stories of intimate encounters with the divine; and in another, the portrait of a sheep farm run by witches on a remote hill in the Appalachians is presented from the perspective of the flow of autumnal viscera and liquids. His video works have been screened and installed in exhibitions in Mexico, Chile, England, Argentina, Colombia, Sweden, Haiti, France, Japan, South Korea, the USA and in Canada. Recent presentations include the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Morelia (Mexico), the Klondike Institute for Art and Culture (Dawson City, Yukon Territory), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, Canada), Lugar a Dudas (Cali, Colombia). Despite widespread fagabondry, Jamie works in Montreal and Toronto. http://jamieross.org/
Sonia Hughes is currently an associate artist to Festspillene i Nord-Norge in Harstad. Previously she collaborated with Quarantine as writer, performer, co-creator including their award-winning Susan & Darren and Wallflower. She also wrote Jeremy Deller’s MIF17 opening event, What is the City, but the People? She has been doing this art shbizzle for over 20 years only now becoming an artist in her own right. What do we want?!… Is a poster exhibition of people’s desires for a proximate Utopia, made for the Great Exhibition of the North with Lisa Mattocks. Jo Fong and Sonia have devised Neither Here Nor There, it delves into the heart of people’s everyday life, where they live, what makes them cross, what can they do and in the end what really matters. Essentially a series of questions and conversations between the audience. During the pandemic it has incarnations as a live writing and filmed conversations. These two works and IAFR mark out new territories Sonia is interested in – addressing the complexity of big ideas but close up with audience key to the action.
‘I want to make work with a disarmingly simple premise, which throws light on the intricacies of both our everyday lives and global affairs.’
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