Part of Stick In the Mud: MFA Spring Exhibition and Performance Series
Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts
May 4th and 6th, 2017
Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera is an investigation into experimental methods of object animation, driven toward an object-oriented ontology of performance. Part theatrical puppetry, part kinetic noise orchestration, Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera is a series of living images that seek unexpected connections between body, sound and object. This work aims to question what is animate and what is animated. The objects become the players. Noise becomes the score. A storm gathers at the edge of the light, threatening to engulf the stage.
" A living, breathing body is at once a body-on-the-ground and a body-in-the-air. Earth and sky then, are not components of an external environment with which the progressively 'knowledged-up' (socialized or encultrated) body interacts. They are rather regions of the body's very existence, without which no knowing or remembering would be possible at all."
Tim Ingold, Footsteps Through the Weather World: Walking, Breathing, Knowing
Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera is an assemblage-based work which draws upon
collective forms of theatre-making. Featured artists include: Patrick Blenkarn, Meaghan Cate,
Shauna Griffin, Haylee Marx, Ian McFarlane and Jordan Zanni
Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts
May 4th and 6th, 2017
Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera is an investigation into experimental methods of object animation, driven toward an object-oriented ontology of performance. Part theatrical puppetry, part kinetic noise orchestration, Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera is a series of living images that seek unexpected connections between body, sound and object. This work aims to question what is animate and what is animated. The objects become the players. Noise becomes the score. A storm gathers at the edge of the light, threatening to engulf the stage.
" A living, breathing body is at once a body-on-the-ground and a body-in-the-air. Earth and sky then, are not components of an external environment with which the progressively 'knowledged-up' (socialized or encultrated) body interacts. They are rather regions of the body's very existence, without which no knowing or remembering would be possible at all."
Tim Ingold, Footsteps Through the Weather World: Walking, Breathing, Knowing
Weather Pattern #1: An Object Opera is an assemblage-based work which draws upon
collective forms of theatre-making. Featured artists include: Patrick Blenkarn, Meaghan Cate,
Shauna Griffin, Haylee Marx, Ian McFarlane and Jordan Zanni