A night of performances followed by a free screening of “Eyes Wide Shut”
In a Celluloid Garden is a night of performances that bring together five UBC students collectively commenting on the medium of film and its deepening obsolescence.
Paul Bucci’s Mask is a performance in which a subject is painted white and used as a digital canvass. The audience is invited to Photoshop the subject in real time. This depersonalizes the subject and allows the audience a direct control over another person’s body and identity.
Adrian Diaz’s One Shot subtly creates a relational situation between artist and viewer, demanding the viewer to take ownership of the artist by capturing a single moment of the performance in the archaic medium of film photography.
In her piece Erase Head, Olivia Dreisingerexplores stasis, expulsion, and the death of the once monolithic videotape. The artist lies within a nest of nebulous film and makes various attempts to assemble and play back a VHS-C from her childhood, an action that is continuously refuted by the declining technology surrounding her.
In-between, a performance by Katherine Enns, takes the viewer away from the rush of their everyday life. It concentrates on the time that is spent in-between one’s life’s pursuits, and focuses in on the beauty of the silence and stillness that is easy to forget exists.
Geometry makes several cameo appearances in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Hailey McCloskey in Venus Carves the Pentagram thus juxtaposes images of the Vitruvian man projected upon a 3-D sphere contraption, the performer engages with archetypes and scientific ratios. Emancipation occurs through gestures and confirming Earth’s relationship with Venus’ kiss.
Entrance to the performances is by donation // Sponsored by CiTR radio
