inte
rdisciplinary works by
SARAH SHEARD
ANNA MARIE REPSTOCK & MIKE CO
NROY
DINKA PIGNON & IVA MLADENOVIC
KATE HENDERSON (AHVA MFA Candi
date)
NEIL EUSTACHE & CHARLENE VICKERS
an installation by
S
ARAH SHAMASH
musical performance by
LEAH ABRAMSON & KORI MIYANISH
I
a new Not Sent Letters Set by JEREMY TODD
featuring CAROL SAWY
ER\, MARINA ROY (AHVA Associate Professor)\, GRAHAM MEISNER\,
DONATO M
ANCINI & CRISTA DAHL
NOT SENT LETTERS & GUESTS form public constellat ions of engaged interdisciplinary and durational practice\, uncompromised b y the realpolitik conditions of contemporary art as a competitive professio nal sphere. The interrelatedness of art\, society and everyday life is crit ically explored amongst a diverse plurality of artists and publics. JEREMY TODD organizes each event as an extension of his NOT SENT LETTERS PROJECT\ , an ongoing entanglement with the production of meaning\, self and cultura l memory\, involving image/text epistolary detours online (since 2005)\, di gital film shorts\, interdisciplinary performance works and cooperatively r ealized public events: http://notsentlettersproject.com
SARAH SHEARD\ , an Ontario-based novelist and Gestalt therapist\, presents A Sausage Séan ce with Bertolt Brecht. Sheard enacts a two-chair dialogue experiment with late playwright Brecht\, the protagonist of her recent novel KRANK: Love i n the New Dark Times. In KRANK\, Brecht's time and Sheard's own come clash ing together in Toronto's infamous G20 riots and later\, in a trip back in time to Berlin.
ANNA MARIE REPSTOCK\, a Vancouver-based artist\, pain ter and recent SFU MFA graduate\, collaborates for the first time with her longtime partner MIKE CONROY. Together they present a video documenting An na’s process in writing a letter to Van Morrison.
DINKA PIGNON\, a se nior new media and interdisciplinary artist\, collaborates with her niece I VA MLADENOVIC to present Taming The Hydra: a quiet performance by a virtua l head assembly\, honoring Dantika\, daughter of the King of Kosala (a dist rict in India at the time of the Buddha). One day Dantika observes an eleph ant obeying its master’s commands. She reflects upon the situation\, "seei ng what was wild before gone tame under human hands"\, and becomes a fully enlightened arahant.
KATE HENDERSON is a Vancouver-b ased artist and photographer now completing an MFA at UBC. For Not Sent Le tters & Guests she continues to navigate transitional spaces between the an alog and the digital in relation to lens-based technologies. Kate will depl oy monologue narration\, found imagery and projection to consider how these mechanical changes are impacting our bodies\, perceptions\, and experience s.
NEIL EUSTACHE & CHARLENE VICKERS debut a work as part of their ong oing Cool Indians On Main Street project. Since 2007\, spontaneous meetings have taken place over coffee\, sandwiches and the photo documentation of p assers-by from a bench at the corner of Main and 13th in Vancouver. Not Se nt Letters Comrades are invited to stand as participants and audience membe rs during the presentation of a mighty\, towering bench inside VIVO. Improv ised performance\, storytelling and occasional heckling are to be expected.
SARAH SHAMASH is a Vancouver-based artist experimenting with mapping strategies to convey experiential knowledge through everyday life. For No t Sent Letters & Guests she presents the letters A\, B and I from her ongoi ng modular series The Alphabet Project. Each letter/piece deploys its own language and narrative: A is for Aerial\, B is for Bathtub\, and I is for I dle No More. The 26 letters of the alphabet will eventually be assembled t hrough a website\, allowing users to spell words and generate edited sequen ces with them.
KORI MIYANISHI postponed a Not Sent Letters & Guests p erformance in June to attend the birth of his child! He returns this Septe mber to collaborate with LEAH ABRAMSON\, another singer\, songwriter and mu lti-instrumentalist rooted in traditional American music and improvisation. They debut a collection of short pieces about the past\, present and nost algia\, exploring their potential integration within a cohesive body of wor k.
JEREMY TODD presents a new Not Sent Letters Set p
iece featuring Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artists CAROL SAWYER\,
EXPLORE previous Not Sent Letters & G uests events here: http://notsentlettersproject.com/category/events
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SPECIAL THANKS to
JOHN BRENNAN (technica
l prep & supervision)
MATILDA ASLIZADEH (digital videography)
VIV
O Staff & Volunteers (hosting & bar).
@ VIVO Media Arts Centre\,
1965 Main Street\, Vancouver
Saturday Night\, September 28\, 2013
3 Hour Programme Only: 8-11pm
$5-$20 suggested sliding scale donatio
n (toward event production costs)
No one will be turned away due to la
ck of funds.