PROJECTS -
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For one week I was the artist in resident for the B#side the River festival in Trieste, Italy. I performed in the Isonzo river with the remains of an old bridge for four hours. I worked with themes of resistance. Resistance is investigated through invisible moments and memory, traces of things that no longer are and as residue and rejuvenation. Photo by Mattia Carrer
This is a re-creation of a performance by Sylvie Tourangeau. I engaged in a passing of the work from Tourangeau as a workshop regarding her process and intentions for the original piece. Her work was about performing the memory of the space and thus. so was mine. Through the receiving I worked to embody the living archive of the space coming from my own lived knowledge. My actions then were not the same as those of Tourangeau's. Video still by Richard Mugwaneza
This work took place in Menahkwesk (Saint John, New Brunswick). For ten-hours I read the bible out loud and engaged in conversations about the readings with Son Freeze. Together we considered trans politics, theories, and interpretations of the bible. The work was presented on top of a hill at Place Fort LaTour, a public tourist attraction. As folks came across us, we invited them to listen and talk with us. Photo by Shelby Deluney @creativelifestylestudio
I performed this work as part of Epicenter Revolutions. I sat in cold garage, in a chair with my pants and underwear around my ankles for four hours. I used bright orange tweezers to take individual pieces of pickling salt out of a container and into my crotch. While I was doing this, three other artists in different parts of the world also performed. Their performances were projected onto and behind me. Photo by Richard Mugwaneza
Tug-A-War is a race between Tess Martens, Holly Timpener and Matthew Moir; attached to each other in the window of La Centrale. For three hours, they will each pull a two-meter rope tied in the middle. A video installation will accompany this performance, where they will change direction to reach the keys of a keyboard in an attempt to communicate with each other. Through this performance, they will try to stay connected against an incessant force. Photo by Richard Mugwaneza
This is a six hour performance investigating internal transformations that during durational works and its relation to my non-binary identity. With bondage rope wrapped around my neck and waist, I walk back and forth from wall to post letting the rope guide me. Photo by Richard Mugwaneza
There two versions of this performance, one in still images the other video. I attempt to create a portrait of depression and my relationship with it. Link to the video https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/662057441 Password: PerformanceArt
A group of feminist infiltrate a Montreal Park with the desire to be seen and heard in the COVID pandemic. We work with balloons to capture our breath crating a visual manifestation of our voices while we distantly connect to each other, engaging in the same action. Photo by Richard Mugwaneza
Five international artist embody Queer Time, at the same moment in different places in the world. We investigate how we are connected through time and space while engaging in our own embodiment praxis. Artists: Holly Timpener, Yuki Kobayashi, Anna Voleska Pohl, Cherry Wood and Vera Yun Lee.