#video performances

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YOU ARE HERE is a live audio/visual performance, occupying a middle ground between digital puppet show, short film, and multimedia play. Audience members are invited to take their photographs in a booth before the show, their faces then placed like masks onto blank characters. Via modelled figures possessing their likenesses, viewers are introduced into an alternate dimension — quiet, flat, empty, unsettling disassociation constructed from the backdrops of dreams. A live narrative constructs several short stories, loosely paralleling visuals on the screen. The show features a mix of predefined content, improvisation, and opportunities for subversion.

YOU ARE HERE was performed as part of the 2017 Particle + Wave, a media arts festival put on by EMMEDIA at Festival Hall.

All documentation photos courtesy of Aran and EMMEDIA

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60 minutes of trying to hold the moon in the frame (2015)

Single channel video with mono sound, 60:00

Filmed between 23:00 and 00:00 from August 27-28 2015 during Calgary's week of hazy smoke that turned the moon dusty red and the sky thick and heavy. 60 Minutes was an exercise in keeping still, being present, and being patient.

This video is a one minute excerpt of the full performance. 

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SHOW (2015)

Five single channel videos with mono sound, each about an hour long.

SHOW is a series of five performance videos made in collaboration with artist Mat Lindenberg, the themes of which revolve around ideas of danger, chance, trust, and intimacy. The artists wind their heads and arms together with string, eat dinner with their fingers tied to one another’s, make a vegetable soup, and throw darts at one another blindfolded.

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Balloon Piece (2015)

Single channel video with mono sound, originally on VHS, 07:02

By removing the sense of sight, two characters explore dynamics of power and trust through kinesthesia and repetitive actions. One inflates a balloon while the other pops it with a needle at the end of a long stick, and again, and again, and again.

Special thanks to Mat Lindenberg

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Spin Cycle (2014)

Single channel video with stereo sound, 11:00

How are everyday mundane activities affected with the loss of a particular sensory faculty? Spin Cycle removes the sense of sight and provides a narrative of a character going through everyday activities relying on muscle memory and her remaining senses.