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Take That! Performance Night x 3

HopArt by Fredrik Axwik, Group Photo by Caleb Speller and Untitled by Jennifer le Roux

Monday July 9, 2007

6:00pm (Axwik, Open Space) , 7:00pm (Speller, Inner Harbor), 8:00pm (le Roux, Open Space). 9:00pm (Axwik,The Ministry of Casual Living)

Inner Harbor, Open Space, 510 Fort St. and The Ministry of Casual Living. 1442

Victoria ---- Amidst the sunny heat and throngs of tourist’s feet exploring Victoria’s downtown zone this summer, three performance projects wil explore gaps in the normal entertainment fare for buffet dazed nomadic audiences. Open Space performance is pleased to host an evening of performance art by three artists exploring different ways to interact and interject public spaces with protest actions, group narcissism, and depths of expression often found behind closed doors.

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Bicycle Rehabilitation Project
A Traveling Interactive Art Piece

May 29 - 31 The Ministry of Casual Living. Daily

June 1, 2 Open Space. Daily. Artist Talk Saturday, June 2, 12pm.

How long has it been since your last tune up? Does your bicycle work the way you want it to? Do you care about the impact that your life and lifestyle make on the environment? If you want a better world and a better ride, you will probably enjoy taking part. The Bicycle Rehabilitation Project depends heavily on audience participation, and each individual participant strengthens the message that the project creates. Its creator Michael Flaherty will be on site both at the Ministry of Casual Living and Open Space to provide participants with a bicycle tune up.

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The Exchange Project
Nancy Nesbit
4-7pm September 6th
Artists Talk 8pm
www.exchangeproject.ca

This project exchanges the studio for the roads, truck stops, border crossings and cities of North America. Through the untidy weaving of politics, surveillance technology and identity construction this performance engages critique. Over time and with the combined effort of exchange participants, resistance, solidarity, and artistic critique emerge.

Politics: Exchange engages in cross border, person-to person, trade negotiations. It offers artistic resistance to international economic agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Surveillance: Exchange critiques and exposes Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Fears of terrorism, national security, and identity authentication have bolstered the demand for RFID.

Identity: Exchange questions and disrupts correlations between corporate consumer data and personal identity through the dispersal and exchange of personal belongings (corporate data elements).

Roving PROJECTS:

Thank You - Rob Hengeveld (Victoria)

Artist Talk: Saturday, March 11, 2006 at noon.

November 21, 2005 - March 18, 2006

Blog online at:
http://www.thankyouproject.blogspot.com/

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Roving PROJECTS:
Bob Wiseman (Toronto) with guest Courtney Wing (Montreal)

performance: Thursday, October 27, 2005

Doors open at 7:30pm, music begins at 8pm
$8 for members/students/seniors/advance;
$10 general admission available at Open Space office

http://www.bobwiseman.ca/
http://www.courtneywing.com/
http://cfuv.uvic.ca/

As part of the Open Space Roving PROJECTS we are happy to present Bob Wiseman with guest Courtney Wing for an audio /video exploration and performance on Thursday, October 27 at 8pm.

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Nature Ecstasy
Suddenly Dance Theatre (Victoria)
January 13 - 22, 2005
Opening: Thursday, January 13, 8pm
Artists’ Talk: Saturday, January 15, Noon


OPENING NIGHT - 2 performances only!
Thursday, January 13th
7pm & 9 pm
Ticket & Info: 250.383.8833
Students/Members - $5 General - $10
available only at Open Space

A LIVE MUSIC - DIGITAL DANCE PREMIERE featuring DAVID FERGUSON and JUNG-AH CHUNG with an original score played live by ECLIPSE QUARTET from Los Angeles featuring Sara Parkins, violin, Sarah Thornblade, violin, Joanna Hood, viola, Maggie Parkins, cello

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ACTUATIONS, SUCH AS AN OUTDOOR KNIFE FIGHT AND OTHER PERSPICACIOUS ACTS
510 Fort Street
Friday, June 11 & Saturday, June 12, 2004
Each evening from 4pm-9pm
Donation


Open Space is proud to host an international Performance Art event, Friday, June 11 and Saturday, June 12 th , 2004. Performative actions will be taking place within Open Space and out on the streets of Victoria, between 4 and 9 pm; this event will be an investigation into what is a vital and often critically engaged area of visual art.

February 28
At the base of her spine
Naufus Ramirez-Figeuroa (Vancouver)
Doors @ 7:30pm, Performance @ 8pm
Admission: $3 members/students, $5 general
Artistís Talk: March 1 @ noon

At the Base of Her Spine will be presented as part of Open Space's ongoing PERFORMATIVE series, which showcases the work of local and national performance artists. In this performance, Vancouver-based performance artist, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa will explore the cultural and social history of the Mongolian Spot, a birthmark sometimes found on the lower backs of children of indigenious descent.

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Marci Rabe and Kristy Farkas

Performance July 20, 8 pm

Artists' Talk July 27 @ noon

Composers Marci Rabe and Kristy Farkas confront the creative act of composition in an performance that embraces the lasting impression of memories. The merging of individually composed musical gestures melds with an evocative visual performance that converges the audience with the performance space. Invoked by intricate subtleties, the voice, double bass and percussion instruments create a delicate yet sometimes crass spectrum of sound. The naked body is explored as sculpture and canvas to express intimate experiences and connections with others. Colour, music, movement and touch form born naked - art in progress. 

April 30 - May 5 performance - UNO - Festival of Solo Performance

Salvation 

September 28 & 29 Performative Series

Two days of performances that incorporate video, sound, collage, visual props and sculptural objects, individual vernacular. An exploration of the transcendental, where language and ritual connect.
Beth Core (Victoria), David Bateman (Calgary), Hillary Peach (Gabriola Island) and David P. Smith (Victoria), curated by Roy Green.

Roy Green

August 4 

Krystal Cook

July 6 

Uno Festival of Solo Performance

May 1-6 

Andre Stitt, Adad Hannah, Jamie McMurry, Paul Coe

March 18 

Bill Talens

January 16-20

Sermon from the Church of Non-Consumption at a Starbucks near you - Bill Talens, Reverend Billy accompanied by organist Bill Henry Preacher, prankster, frapuccino foe and New York City mayoral hopeful Reverend Billy performed a series of anti-consumerist sermons and "shopping interventions" where he extorted local sinners against the devils of corporate cafe culture, the brainwashing of "Mickey Mouse Antichrist" and the loss of public space.

Task Object Task

Judith Price (Victoria), Dan McKereghan (New York), Joelle Ciona (Vancouver) - curated by John G Boehme

September 1 & 2    

Performative

performances by Marlene Madison, J. McLaughlin, The Hermaphrodite Brotherhood & Powderkeg.
Curated by John Boehme.

March 7-11 

House Without Walls

Sheila Ie, Paddy Simpson, Danuel Tate

October 19-23 

performance October 23 

Captain Victoria

Mernie Lee Plested

October 2 

Theatre: Dance of the Leopard by Comfort Ero

February 19 and 20, 7 pm 

Uno Festival of Solo Performance

February 4-14 

The Hats of Mr Zenobe
The Ugly Duchess
Dried Flowers
SPLIT
An electrifying evening of Solo Dance: Erosion
Objects In The Mirror - Are Stranger Than They Appear!
The Lecture
Backwards into China
Lady of Letters
SNATCH
Pleased to Meet You

Sheri-D Wilson & R M Vaughan

February 13

Sheri-D proposed a World Premiere Performance with local drag queens as part of a Valentine's Day/Friday the 13th celebration at Open Space. Her books of poetry: Swerve (Arsenal Press, 1993) and Girls Guide to Giving Head (Arsenal Press, 1996) have been reviewed and publicized to acclaim across Canada. R M Vaughan's new book of poetry A Selection of Dazziling Scarves comes out this fall with ELW Press; his poems have previously appeared in Plush: An Anthology of Gay Male Poets (Coach House Press). 

HO HO HO: a kooky comedy Christmas show

performed by Chicks in the Nabe (Carolyn Mark and Kerri McCauley) with J. McLaughlin

December 19 

The Sex Change Artist 

Intrepid Theatre Company

Written by Charles Tidler and directed by Stephen White 

November 7-17

The piece is a full-length treatment of a university instructor's helpless efforts in the maw of an institution's myriad political agendas. 

The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing his Wife

April 3-5

The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing his Wife: Sam Shepard: Electric Circus Productions. A comic operetta from the master of the American mid-west play. 

Odd Jobs

written by Frank Moher

Electric Circus Productions

March 26-April 5

A play about people trying to determine the value of work and self-actualization in an ever-changing, technologically advanced age. 

Sanctuary

Suddenly Dance Theatre

March 14-23

This modern work about sanctuaries is an unsettling and intimate duet, using video projections to express the inner thoughts and feelings of the live performers. Choreographed by Lori Hamar and David Ferguson; musical score by Mark Adamson, Andrew Samuel and Dave Coish; video segments directed by Miles Lowry. 

Fallin' in Love

Written and directed by Stephen Malloy

Performed by Rhys Lloyd, Laara Sadiq and John Henry Canavan

Music composed and performed by Matthew Gray

November 16-19 

The Sex Change Artist 

Intrepid Theatre Company

Written by Charles Tidler and directed by Stephen White 

November 7-17

The piece is a full-length treatment of a university instructor's helpless efforts in the maw of an institution's myriad political agendas.