Not Sent Letters & Guests @ dharmalab
| Saturday Night, January 14th, 2011 | Not Sent Letters Set | ||
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| interdisciplinary works by Anakana Schofield & Lori Weidenhammer, Rina Liddle & Nola Semczyzn, Ron Stuber & Colin McLaine, Soressa Gardner & Dennis E. Bolen  |
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| digitalfilm short by Leannej & My Name Is Scotvideo installation byKatherine Somody Not Sent Letters Set byJeremy Todd w/ Andrew Short featuring Margot Leigh Butler, Natasha McHardy, Dinka Pignon, Yi Xin Tong, Dennis E. Bolen postlude new music by Corner |
NOT SENT LETTERS is an ongoing series of epistolary detours by JEREMY TODD (an entanglement w/ practices of the self & the politics of representation) involving online image/text posts, digital film shorts & multi-media performances. The dharmalab letters set will include live scores by ANDREW SHORT, image projection, & letters selected from the project blog (notsentletters.blogspot.com) & read by MARGOT LEIGH BUTLER, NATASHA McHARDY, DINKA PIGNON, JEREMY TODD, YI XIN TONG & DENNIS E. BOLEN. | dharmalab Not Sent Letters Set (January 14, 2011): | Margot Leigh Butler reads a Not Sent Letter as Andrw Short provides a score & Jeremy Todd projects – photo sent in by Heidi Nagtegaal |
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| @ dharmalabVancouver, 1814 Pandora (N. of Hastings, E. of Commercial @ Salsbury)Friday Night, January 14, 2011, 8pm SHARP! $5 suggested donation (toward production expenses) Video documentation by Matilda Aslizadeh. |
KATHERINE SOMODY (part artist, critic, skeptic & cautious romantic) screens the first in a series of self-portraits exploring relations between music & video, memory & storytelling, textual & somatic language – while trying (perhaps in vain) to disentangle the personal from the socially prescribed. | LEANNEJ & MY NAME IS SCOT (two interdisciplinary artists engaging issues of class, identity & agency while living in Vancouver’s DTES) screen Calculating 63: More than 15 years, over 63 lives, way too many excuses, endless questions, zero good reasons & only 1 perpetrator? Something in this equation doesn’t add up. This collaboration sifts through the statistics, looking for feeling & meaning behind the numbers and finding out that poverty, violence & exploitation can disappear just about anyone. | A digital film thank you from Colin McLaine for Not Sent Letters & Guests – sent to Jeremy Todd after the Jan. 14, 2011 dharmalab event in Vancouver. |
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| SORESSA GARDNER & DENNIS E. BOLEN (a singer/composer/performance artist & novelist/editor/teacher/journalist) combine prose, poetry and electronica within a new collaborative work @ Not Sent Letters & Guests. | RINA LIDDLE & NOLA SEMCZYZN (two interdisciplinary artists exploring art making as a methodology for analysis & criticism of social structures) present DIY Lover, a performative inquiry into the material configuration of dating guides. | RON STUBER & COLIN McLAINE (a drummer/percussionist & visual artist/composer) perform Shed, a work composed in a Strathcona shed for electric guitar and drums that might also involve the shedding of light, skin and inhibitions. | ANAKANA SCHOFIELD & LORI WEIDENHAMMER (two Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artists & friends) expand Schofield’s dialogue w/ Helen Potrebenko’s 1975 Vancouver novel Taxi! through an embodied exploration of transaction involving readers/listeners. Weidenhammer’s Security Guard examines these encounters by providing “market research” on various sitters. |
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| Coming in – photo sent in by Irene Kobylkin-Somody | Rina Liddle & Nola Semczyszyn perform DIY Lover – photo sent in by Heidi Nagtegaal | Rehearsal for the dharmalab Not Sent Letters Set: Natasha Mchardy, Andrew Short, Dinka Pignon, Yi Xin Tong and Margot Leigh Butler (Dennis E. Bolen left early to host a poetry event and Jeremy Todd is behind the camera). | Anticipated Results debuts – photo sent in by Heidi Nagtegaal. |
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| HERES THE TABMingling in front of Katherine Somody’s screening – photo sent in by Irene Kobylkin-Somody | Matilda Aslizadeh (after video documenting all night) & Natasha McHardy (post-Not Sent Leter reading) in the dharmalab meditation chamber – photo sent in by Charlene Vickers | Lori Weidenhammer’s Security Guard deployed… | … |
