Presenters
January 22–26, 2020 · Guelph
Sponsors Program • Exhibitions • Literature • Music • Conversations • Circles ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020
Community Partners Pr ogram
Media Partners
Get Noticed. Get Found.
AEF_2020_Program_Print.indd 1-3 2020-01-06 4:52 PM January 22–26, 2020 · Guelph
The ArtsEverywhere Festival takes place Welcome to the on the ancestral and treaty lands of the fourth annual Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation ArtsEverywhere of the Anishinabek Peoples. Festival, Guelph’s festival of ideas. Throughout history, this land and these Over five days, waters have also been home to the Chonnonton Peoples (“People of the the festival Deer”), as well as the Haudenosaunee offers lectures, from the south, and the Anishinaabe conversations, and Métis from the north. music, artistic performances, We offer respect as we strengthen our literary readings, relationships with them. We express our gratitude for sharing these lands for and workshops. FSCFSC Label—FULL Label—FULL Version (LANDSCAPE)Version (LANDSCAPE) our mutual benefit. A minimum height of 12 mm MustA haveminimum an area of height clear space of (sho12 wnmm here in green) around the logo, equivalentMust have to the heightan area of the of letters clear ‘FSC’ space (shown here in green) around the logo, The surrounding border is required Labelsequivalent are provided to in black,the height white, and of green. the letters ‘FSC’ TheThe FSCFSC labelsurrounding Label—FULL statements areborder availableVersion is in required (LANDSCAPE)multiple languages LabelsA areminimum provided height ofin 12black, mm white, and green. TheFSC FSC MustLabel—FULL label have anstatements area Version of clear (LANDSCAPE) arespace available (shown here in in multiple green) around languages the logo, Aequivalent minimum height to the of height 12 mm of the letters ‘FSC’ FSC Label—FULLMustThe havesurrounding Version an area (PORTRAIT) ofborder clear isspace required (shown here in green) around the logo, FSC Label—FULLA minimum VersionequivalentLabels width (LANDSCAPE) ofare 17 to provided mm.the height in ofblack, the letters white, ‘FSC’ and green. A minimumMust height have ofThe an The12 area mmsurrounding FSC of label clear statementsspaceborder (sho is wnrequired are here available in green) inaround multiple the label,languages Must have equivalentan area ofLabels toclear the spaceare height provided (sho of thewn hereinletters black, in ‘FSC’green) white, around and green.the logo, equivalentThe to thesurrounding heightThe FSCof border the label letters is statements required ‘FSC’ are available in multiple languages We strive to make every venue fully accessible. The surroundingFSCLabels Label—FULL borderare provided is required in black, Version white, and green. (PORTRAIT) Labels areThe providedA FSCminimum label in black, statements white,width areand of available green. 17 mm. in multiple languages The FSC label statements are available in multiple languages MustFSC have Label—FULL an area ofVersion clear (PORTRAIT)space (shown here in green) around the label, For detailed information about our venue and program A minimum width of 17 mm. equivalentFSC Label—FULL to the Versionheight (PORTRAIT)of the letters ‘FSC’ accessibility, pick up a copy of our access guide at any of our FSC Label—MINIMUMAMust minimum have REQUIREMENTS widthan area of 17of clearmm. space (shown here in green) around the label, A minimumThe surroundingMustequivalent width have of 11mm.an toarea theborder of height clear is spaceof required the (sho letterswn here ‘FSC’ in green) around the label, venues, or to view online please visit FSC Label—FULLCanLabels be VersiondisplayedequivalentThe are surrounding (PORTRAIT) inprovided landscape to the height border or in portrait black,of is the required format letters white, ‘FSC’ and green. A minimumMust width have ofThe an17Labels area mm.surrounding ofare clear provided spaceborder (shoin is black, wnrequired here white, in green) and around green. the logo, Festival.ArtsEverywhere.ca/accessibility Must have equivalentanThe area ofFSCLabels Thetoclear the label FSC spaceare height labelprovided statements(sho of statementsthewn hereinletters black, in ‘FSC’green) are arewhite, available aroundavailable and green.the in label,multiple in multiple languages languages equivalentLabels to the are heightThe provided FSCof the label in letters black, statements ‘FSC’ white, and are green.available in multiple languages The surrounding border is required Labels are provided in black, white, and green. The FSC label statements are available in multiple languages FSC Label—MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FSC Label—MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Cover photo: Taqralik Partridge FSC Label—MINIMUMA minimum width of 11mm.REQUIREMENTS A minimum width of 11mm. A minimumCan be displayedwidth of in 11mm.landscape or portrait formatFSC Trademark. FSC Label—MINIMUMCan MustREQUIREMENTS be have displayed an area in landscape of clear space or® portrait 1996 (sho FSCwn format A.C., here FSC-SECR-005 in green) around the logo, A minimum widthCan ofbeMust 11mm.equivalent displayed have an toarea the in of height landscapeclear spaceof the (sho letters orwn portrait here ‘FSC’ in green) format around the logo, Can be displayedMust in equivalentlandscapehaveLabels an are or toarea providedportrait the height of format inclear ofblack, the space letters white, ‘FSC’ (shoand green.wn here in green) around the logo, Must have an area ofLabels clear spaceare provided (shown herein black, in green) white, around and green.the logo, equivalent toequivalent the height of the to letters the height‘FSC’ of the letters ‘FSC’ Labels are providedLabels in areblack, provided white, and green. in black, white, and green.
FSC Trademark.FSC Trademark. ® 1996® 1996 FSC FSCA.C., A.C., FSC-SECR-005 FSC-SECR-005 FSC Trademark. ® 1996 FSC A.C., FSC-SECR-005 FSC Trademark. ® 1996 FSC A.C., FSC-SECR-005 Founded in Portland, Oregon, Publication Studio is a network of 11 publishers worldwide that print and bind books one at a time, on demand. We also attend to the social life of our books through social gatherings, readings, and workshops.
rare/original/non-existent books made fresh
My Boyfriend Observer Data From A Flash of Silver- Stories of Impact: is a Peacekeeper Block 135 to 145 Green: Stories of The Douglas R. Ewart’s by Amanda Nedham and 160 Rye Crescent Nature of Cities Crepuscule Lush graphite by Rosa Aiello D Maddox, C Walker, Edited by Ajay Heble illustrations alongside A surveillance and M Lovejoy, eds. A full-colour surreal letters to a entity observes and Introduction by celebration of the lover offer one side documents a single Ursula K. Heise improvised community of a correspondence suburban residential Short stories set in collaboration, from the edge of block for 24 hours. 2099 that explore Crepuscule. Essays, conflict. A poetic exploration the city’s relationship interview, and photos of privacy, voyeurism, to nature through documenting the and artificial science fiction, magic multi-site, mixed- intelligence. realism, and fantasy. media exhibition.
Launching at The Guelph Lecture: a new book of poetry by Taqralik Partridge!
Bookstore at publicationstudio.biz
PS_AEF2020_Full.indd 1 2019-12-16 2:59 PM At a Glance Venues 10C January 22–26, 2020 42 Carden St Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday AGG Art Gallery of Guelph RECEPTION WORKSHOP WORKSHOP CONVERSATION CONVERSATION 358 Gordon St Exhibition The Shadow Side Little Seeds for Gesturing Technology, Red Papaya Openings of Modernity Not Yet Here Towards Zero Access, and Art 55 Wyndham St N 7:00–8:30 pm 9:00 am – 5:00 pm 10:00 am – 12:00 pm 9:30 am – 4:00 pm 11:00 am – 1:00 pm ASL ASL RICA Free • AGG Free • Check website Free • SHH Free • RRC • ASL LC Free • RRC • ASL LC Renann Isaacs Page 20 for venue Page 32 Page 38 Page 44 Contemporary Art Page 26 5 Gordon St, Unit 107 SPEAKER WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE SPEAKER RRC River Run Centre Big Ideas in Art Building a Path Patricia Cano Jason DaSilva: 35 Woolwich St & Culture: 1:00–4:00 pm 7:30–9:00 pm · RRC AXS Map ASL SHH Khaled Barakeh Free • SHH Free • ASL LC 2:00–4:00 pm • Free ASL Silence 6:30–8:30 pm Page 32 Page 42 RRC • ASL LC ASL 46 Essex St Free • 10C • ASL LC Page 44 Page 26 PERFORMANCE The Guelph PERFORMANCE EXHIBITION Opening Concert Lecture— Community Suzy Xu Shuang ASL 9:30 – 11:59 pm On Being Dance Party 4:30–6:30 pm • Free LC Free 7:00–10:00 pm 9:30–11:59 pm RICA ASL ASL Events with ASL Page 29 $25 • RRC • ASL LC Red Papaya · Free Page 48 Interpretation and Page 34 Page 42 live captioning festival.artseverywhere.ca AEFestival @AEFestGuelph Offi cial Catering Sponsor of the ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020
biteguelph.ca 519.265.7328 Contents
Welcome Messages 7–16 Saturday, January 25 CONVERSATIONS Wednesday, January 22 Gesturing EXHIBITIONS Towards Zero — Elwood Jimmy Qautamaat | & Vanessa Andreotti 38 Every day / everyday 20 Threading Towards Zero — Haruko leslie mccue — bagiskaagewin 22 Okano, leslie mccue Lisa Hirmer, Taqralik Partridge 38 Nathalie Bujold — Médiatique 24 Towards Scarring Our Collective Thursday, January 23 Soul Wound — Cash Ahenakew 39 WORKSHOP Sangamithra Iyer, Anu Radha Haruko Okano — The Shadow Side Verma, Anne Riley & Lisa Hirmer — of Modernity 26 Radiant Practices: Relationship as Centre 39 SPEAKER – BIG IDEAS IN ARTS & CULTURE PERFORMANCE Khaled Barakeh — Socially Patricia Cano & Cots 42 Engaged Art and Artistic Artivism: COMMUNITY DANCE PARTY Artists’ Responsibility in a Time of Catastrophe 26 SOuLBEAUTiFUL & DJ Durty Dabz 42 FESTIVAL KICK-OFF CONCERT Pick A Piper and Doomsquad 28 Sunday, January 26 Visuals by VERSA 29 CONVERSATIONS Taeyoon Choi & Stephen Friday, January 24 Surlin — Technology, Access, and WORKSHOPS Art 44 Lisa Hirmer & Bonnie Devine Jason DaSilva — AXS Map 44 Towards Braiding 32 EXHIBITION THE GUELPH LECTURE — ON BEING Suzy Xu Shuang — The Last Taqralik Partridge 34 Traditional Celebration 48 Eric Fischl — The Body: Biographies 55 Its Uses and Abuses 35 Credits 63 Marianne Trudel 35 GUELPH FILM FESTIVAL OF DAYS 9DOCUMENTARIES NOVEMBER 6–14 2020
THE ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE #LetsTalkDoc COMMUNITY BUILDING GUELPHFILMFESTIVAL.CA WELCOME
warm welcome to you for conversations. This will be an open- A participating and supporting this source, legacy tool that we offer to our 17th year of The Guelph Lecture — the Guelph community to be updated On Being and the 4th year of the each year of the festival, incorporating ArtsEverywhere Festival. For many improvements and changes into future months, our team at Musagetes have editions. been preparing for this year’s festival. Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers, Presented by Musagetes, the Eramosa presenting partners, community Institute and the University of Guelph, and media partners, access team, and supported by its community and presenters, special guests, venue media partners, the festival hosts liaisons, and the City of Guelph. Special Canadian and international artists, thanks to Bodies in Translation for performers, and authors offering helping us on our access journey. (Our literary readings, lectures, music, full acknowledgment list can be found conversations, circle gatherings, on our website.) workshops, and exhibitions. Lastly, thank you for allowing us to help As the festival’s new director, it has warm up your January with free events been my honour to work with our spanning five days, including two special committed staff, volunteers, and ticketed events taking place at the River community partners to organize an Run Centre. We are grateful to be able event that brings together a diverse, to bring you a program that connects informative, creative, and sometimes to the ongoing engagement of many unlikely combination of people—a organizations and individuals who work festival that strives to model inclusion to make the world a better place for all and to centre the experience of those to live, love, and thrive. who face barriers to access. Marva Wisdom The ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 Director, Program Co-curator will offer the first iteration of an and Access Co-lead access guide, which includes a profile ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 of the festival venues, a glossary of terms often used at the festival, and pointers on how these contribute to the
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 7 WELCOME
Valerie Hall (left) and Joy Roberts
ecause of you and the culture We can’t say enough to thank the Bof community you help to build, presenters and all of the enthusiastic The Guelph Lecture — On Being staff and volunteers who work tirelessly is now in its 17th year and has to make this event happen. No event become part of the vibrant five-day of this magnitude can be accomplished ArtsEverywhere Festival. Together, without teamwork — and what a team! you, our organisations, volunteers, and Their work in the world and their many community partners are adding importance to this festival cannot be voices and actions that strengthen our overstated. civil society and our connections to one Your participation, collaboration, and another. support inspires all of us, and especially We hope you agree that this year’s our young leaders, to make the Festival Guelph Lecture — On Being offers happen, thereby strengthening the another evening of rich and diverse threads that connect all of us and ideas that will challenge us through arts providing a space where art, ideas, and culture to think differently about politics, and community spirit can thrive. the world and our place in it. We look forward to seeing you at the We extend our warmest greetings and events. welcome those from near and far to participate in as much of the exciting line-up as possible. Our website at Valerie Hall Joy Roberts festival.artseverywhere.ca gives a President Chair complete overview of what is happening Eramosa Institute Musagetes each day.
8 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 CAFKA CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE PUBLIC SPACE
MAY 30 - JUNE 28, 2020
www.cafka.org
Supporting the creation and exhibition of independent media art since 1976 in Guelph and beyond. Material Art Fair - Mexico City - February 7-9 featuring Beth Frey, Amy Lockhart, Robert Dayton
Ed Video/ELLEPHANT/RICA - Guelph - February 20 to March 14 featuring Nathalie Bujold, Sabrina Ratté, Skawennati
Hybrid Art Fair - Madrid - February 28 to March 1 featuring Brianna Lowe
PlatformsPl Project Art Fair - Athens - May 14-17 featuring Shayam Korey Steckle, Fan-Ling Suen
edvideo.org WELCOME
elcome to the 2020 backgrounds, and experiences to forge a WArtsEverywhere Festival and The better shared future for us all. Guelph Lecture—On Being. This festival of ideas resonates for all of Once again, the University of Guelph us on the University of Guelph campus, community is proud to co-present this where we are dedicated to the sharing year’s festival with Musagetes and the of ideas, expression, and experience for Eramosa Institute. a common purpose: to improve life. Through exhibition, performance Through our partnership in and conversation, this event brings ArtsEverywhere and the Guelph Lecture, us together to discuss and reflect on we welcome the opportunity to join with important issues and challenges in our the wider community in questioning and community and in our wider world. exploring our common humanity. This event’s wide array of artists, Enjoy this year’s festival events. speakers, and performers also Dr. Franco Vaccarino underlines the strength that comes President and Vice-Chancellor from diversity — the benefits of bringing University of Guelph together our varied perspectives,
10 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 Get Noticed. Get Found.
From Qautamaat, Tarralik Du y, 3/4 mile marker, 2019 OPENING JANUARY 22, 2020
NathalieEmpowering Bujold: Médiatique Leaders. StrengtheningCurated by Scott McGovern Communities. Leslie McCue: Bagiskaagewin Curated by Elwood Jimmy
Qautamaat | Every day / everyday Curated by Taqralik Partridge
Sandra Brewster: Token | Contemporary Ongoing Maria Hupfi eld: Rupture Carmela Laganse: Spread Curated by Sally Frater
358 Gordon Street, Guelph, ON N1G 1Y1 519-837-0010 artgalleryofguelph.ca
an Ontario government agency un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario WELCOME
brings arts, culture, and ideas to our community in accessible, exciting, and thought-provoking ways. I want to welcome everyone who is attending this year and thank you for being a part of it. n behalf of the City of Guelph and A special thank you to the its citizens, I am thrilled to welcome O ArtsEverywhere team who work you to the ArtsEverywhere Festival! tirelessly to organize the Festival. Thank We are honoured to have internationally you for creating an event that enriches acclaimed artists, thought leaders, and us all. performers in our city for this event. A Enjoy the Festival! special welcome to all of you, whether you have travelled from near or far. Sincerely, This Festival never fails to leave Cam Guthrie audiences inspired and engaged. It Mayor of Guelph
12 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 Communityin motion
May 29 to 31, 2020
guelphdance.ca
where the land ends, imagination begins...
August 1to8, 2020 Coin-du-Banc, Musical Gaspésie, Québec Improvisation at Land’s End bit.ly/improvcamp WELCOME
reetings guests, artists, and As your Member of Provincial Gcommunity partners! Parliament for Guelph, please accept my well-wishes for a joyous festival. Thank you to the entire ArtsEverywhere team for their amazing work in Mike Schreiner organizing this five-day event, bringing MPP, Guelph artists from all walks of life to our wonderful community of Guelph. I would also like to thank all the sponsors, media partners, and presenters for helping make ArtsEverywhere happen. Art plays a paramount role in our lives. It enriches our soul and inspires us to appreciate different cultures and media.
September 11-13, 2020 emwf.ca open air, open book, open mind
14 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020
WELCOME
Guelph. From musicians, dancers, poets, to actors and authors, Canada’s cultural diversity and economy owes a great deal of success to preforming artists. The incredible range of discussions n behalf of the Government of on technology and disability arts, Canada I welcome you to the O Inuit art, conceptual art and uplifting annual ArtsEverywhere Festival! dance parties provide an amazing Guelphites take great pride in the strong international flare to this wonderful connection Guelph has to the arts. festival. As the Member of Parliament for Thank you to all the volunteers and Guelph I am thrilled to represent staff that help make this festival such a a community with such a vibrant success. Over the course of the festival and growing creative presence. The I encourage everyone to immerse Government of Canada recognizes the themselves in the message of the artists important work Canadian creators do and to reflect on how it expresses our in generating economic growth and shared values of inclusiveness and shaping our identity. respect. For the next few days as you come Sincerely, together to celebrate the rich tapestry that is Canadian art, I encourage you to Lloyd Longfield experience all you can while you are in Member of Parliament, Guelph
NOW PHYSICALLY ACCESSIBLE
41 QUEBEC ST, DOWNTOWN GUELPH BOOKSHELF.CA
16 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 Program
W T F S S W T F S S
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 W Exhibition Opening · 7:00 pm
EXHIBITION Qautamaat | Every day / everyday
7:00 pm Among the most Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon St significant means of Exhibition runs January 22 – April 26 personal expression in the public sphere Curated by Taqralik Partridge today, curator Featuring Elisapie Attagootak, Laisa Taqralik Partridge Audlaluk-Watsko, Tarralik Duffy, is interested in how Betsy Etidloie, Mary Gordon, Siasi such images capture Iqaluk, Eenah Lidstone, Barry Pottle, acutely intimate Inuit sensibilities. These Ida Saunders, Nina Segalowitz, may be photographs taken within the Jarvis Usuitauyok, and Laakkuluk context of artistic practice, or snapshots Williamson Bathory taken as matter-of-fact witness to the everyday. Sometimes registering Drawn from images circulated on the most mundane and marginal sites social networks, Qautamaat brings and scenes, they extend a tradition of together the photography of Inuit craft and attentiveness to detail in a community members and artists living contemporary context. Documenting in Inuit Nunangat and in urban centres and sharing personal experiences, they further south. Documenting places also offer a vivid picture of a collective and phenomena of daily life, they offer geography that spans a large part of a visual map and memory of the lived the circumpolar world and encompasses environment. the ties of Inuit communities outside the North.
Qautamaat and Bagiskaagewin are presented by the Art Gallery of Guelph in partnership with Musagetes and with the support of the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.
Overleaf photo: From Qautamaat, From Qautamaat, Tarralik Duffy, Nina Segalowitz, 2019 3/4 mile marker, 2019 20 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 21 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 W Exhibition Opening · 7:00 pm
EXHIBITION leslie mccue bagiskaagewin
Wednesday, January 22 · 7:00 pm Exhbition runs January 22 – April 26 Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon St Bagiskaagewin (letting go)—exploring grief, dying and loss. Sparked out of grief, Bagiskaagewin celebrates life and takes a look into a personal journey of healing, strength and memories.
McCue family 22 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 Bagiskaagewin incorporates projection, The boat imagery emerged from years sound and structures created by of traveling back and forth to leslie’s leslie and participants of community family cottage on an island with her workshops. Red fabric ties will be papa, where he would spend most of his offered to all who encounter the time. Since his passing, she has not had exhibition, with an invitation to share a the strength to travel back to the island. message that they have been holding This coming year, leslie will make the on to surrounding death, dying and journey back. grieving. Red fabric is often used when “Let me watch my children grow to see offering tobacco, prayers and messages. what they become” People are then encouraged to tie their message to one of the boats within the space, with the hopes of creating a river of messages (for example, “I wish I could have said goodbye”). The boats have been created within three Anishinaabeg community workshops and are symbolic offerings to let our grief drift away and shift our collective thinking, while dismantling western influences on how we encounter and process death.
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 23 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 W Exhibition Opening · 7:00 pm
EXHIBITION Nathalie Bujold Médiathique
Wednesday, January 22 · 7:00 pm January 22 – April 26, 2020 Art Gallery of Guelph, 358 Gordon St Curated by Scott McGovern Médiatique features video projects and sculptures spanning Nathalie Bujold’s career of almost 30 years. Presented together as a video environment, analog and digital artworks highlight Bujold’s formalist ability to both dissect and expand her subjects. The traditional expectations—technically, conceptually, and psychologically—are reconfigured, highlighting a constantly renewed hybridization. Similar to many traditional arts and crafts, Bujold’s techniques require precision, repetition, and commitment. The result is a glimpse into her distinctive enigmatic, bold, and sometimes funny universe, through artworks that demonstrate the potential of video to create new ways to express time, form, and space.
Médiatique is organized by the Art Gallery of Guelph and ELLEPHANT in conjunction with the ArtsEverywhere Festival. The exhibition Nathalie Bujold, Aller retour dans is presented with the support of the Ontario l’inconnu qui attend à pied d’oeuvre Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. (detail), 2018, HD video, 10:41 mins 24 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 25 THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 T Workshop · 10:00 am | Speaker · 6:30 pm
WORKSHOP SPEAKER – BIG IDEAS Haruko Okano IN ART & CULTURE The Shadow Khaled Barakeh Side of Modernity Socially Engaged 9:00 am – 5:00 pm · Location TBC, Art and Artistic please check website · Free Artivism: Artists’ This day-long workshop explores Responsibility in a the impact of Time of Catastrophe modernity on 6:30–8:30 pm · 10C · Free the body and Welcome by Peter Schuler mind, combining Co-presented with CAFKA conversations, hands-on exercises, ASL Faced with teamwork and experimentation on the ASL the realities topic of the colonial state that we live in of mass and its impact on the body and mind of LC migrations, us all. What might this state be hiding how can an artistic from us that we need to face in order community that to practice a different way of being in has been scattered relationship to each other, to other non- far beyond its human entities, and the Earth? Exercises geographical roots be reconnected, have performative elements meshed rebuilt, and sustained? Conceptual with the challenges of collaboration artist and activist Khaled Barakeh has without leadership, time-sensing developed a suite of social initiatives through the biological clocks within us, that directly address these issues: the and non-verbal communication. online platform SYRIA Cultural Index, the mobile Syrian Biennale, and the non- Participants need to wear comfortable profit Coculture e.V. Barakeh will detail clothing and be prepared to stay how these initiatives reestablish and through the whole process. Portions of support the dispersed cultural producers this workshop require working in couples of the Syrian artistic scene, touching with permission to respectfully touch on the broader need each other without sexual intent. Also, a for artists to radicalize portion of this workshop will take place their practices to enact outside so please bring warm outdoor tangible social and clothing. political change.
26 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 lunch • dinner • weekend brunch eat-in • take-out • catering
parkgrocery.ca
PROUD SPONSOR OF THE ARTS EVERYWHERE FESTIVAL
our Roots, foods, wines + brews
Miijidaa.ca thewoolypub.ca
ENJOY OUR CARBON NEUTRAL RESTAURANTS THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 T Festival Kick-Off Concert · 9:30 pm
CONCERT 9:30 pm – 12:30 am · eBar · All ages/licensed · Free Co-presented by KAZOO! Fest Pick A Piper Doomsquad
There’s a difference between when This Toronto-based experimental trio something enters your periphery and formed by siblings Trevor, Jaclyn and when you can truly see it. Sight, the Allie Blumas is less of a band than an enveloping new album from Toronto art project. Their musical creations tend electronic explorer Brad Weber, aka to veer to the abstract, psychedelic Pick A Piper, focuses on authentic and ominous. Their new album, Let connection. The Caribou collaborator’s Yourself Be Seen, is the most assertive, follow-up to 2017’s acclaimed Distance ambitious, groove-sodden declaration is an immersive dream of delirious of intent yet from the trio: the sound of synth shudders, pulsing beats, eclectic dance floor believers and thinkers firing instrumentation and diverse digital on all personal and political fronts, at a dimensions of sound. Written alone at time when we need it most. home, beginning many tracks on his family piano, brings influence from ambient music, ’70s Brazilian folk, ’80s Bollywood disco, modern cumbia and much, much more.
28 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 Visuals by VERSA
VERSA creates cascading, abstract projections and video collage. Generated using both analog and digital hardware and techniques, they drench performers and architecture alike with colour, strobing shapes and hints of a dream you once had. Based in Guelph, VERSA is an audio/visual collective, and when they aren’t behind the scenes producing visuals, they’re on stage performing their own experimental post-rock experience with their eponymous band.
. found get . noticed get
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 29
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 F Workshops · 10:00 am
WORKSHOPS Lisa Hirmer Bonnie Devine Towards Braiding PART 1 PART 2 Little Seeds Building a Path for Not Yet Here
10:00 am – Noon 1:00 – 4:00 pm Morning workshop with Lisa Hirmer Afternoon workshop with Bonnie Devine Silence, 46 Essex Street Silence, 46 Essex Street Free · Registration required Free · Registration required A brunch made from tree-sourced An outdoor collaborative weaving ingredients and guided conversation project using snow fence and used focused on how caring for trees in the clothing. We ask each participant to present can help us reach past the limits bring at least one meaningful article of of individual human lives and into an out-worn or out-grown clothing of any increasingly uncertain future. size or vintage. Please come dressed for the weather. All ages are welcome. Hot cocoa and cookies will be served during a conversation at the end of the activity.
Overleaf: Lisa Hirmer, Little seeds for not yet here (2020) 32 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 F The Guelph Lecture on Being · 7:00 pm
ASL 7:00–10:00 pm ASL followed by reception River Run Centre, Main Stage LC Tickets: $25/$20 Originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Quebec, and now living in Kautokeino, Norway, Taqralik Partridge is an Inuk WELCOME textile artist, curator, writer, and spoken Franco Vaccarino word poet. President, University of Guelph With the warm ring of the spoken EMCEE word at their centre, Partridge’s poems wrestle with colonisation and Robert Enright racial violence while also reflecting rich sensory imagery—from the stain of blueberries, to the relationships of sisters and aunts, to a knowledge of the LITERARY GUEST land. Partridge’s debut poetry collection, curved against the hull of a peterhead Taqralik (Publication Studio Guelph), will be Partridge available at The Guelph Lecture. As part of Musagetes’ Thread Residency program, Partridge’s curated exhibition i can tell you fish stories/ of photographs, Qautamaat, will be from every point i ever cast a silvery lure to opening at the Art Gallery of Guelph on sing in char or trout or salmon/ Wednesday, January 22nd as part of the the small ones not caught in Norman’s net/ festival (see page 20). Including photos who went out at low tide with mending from 12 artists, the exhibit documents line to square up holes and came back with places and phenomena of daily life, legendary catch of four foot fish and no offering a visual map and memory of proof left/but bones after supper the lived environment in Inuit Nunangat — from “after an argument,” and in urban centres further South. Taqralik Partridge 34 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 KEYNOTE LECTURE CONCERT Eric Fischl Marianne The Body: Its Trudel with the Uses and Abuses Guelph Symphony INTERVIEWED BY Orchestra, The Gryphon Singers, Robert Enright and the Guelph Youth Jazz Ensemble Eric Fischl is an internationally Guest accompanists: acclaimed painter and sculptor and Ben Finley and Philip Mayer one of the most important figurative painters working in the world today. His Le réel qui nous unit talk will be a free-wheeling conversation Choir, piano, and doublebass about the way the body has been Sources represented in art from the 19th Four movements for string orchestra century to the present, and what that and piano trio representation tells us not only about art, but about the society in which Au coeur du silence: la lumière we live and the values it holds. Eric Orchestra, choir, and piano trio Fischl will be in conversation with the See next page for more information. writer and critic Robert Enright, who is Professor of Art Theory and Criticism in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph.
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 35 FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 F The Guelph Lecture on Being · 7:00 pm
Au cœur du silence: la lumière At the Heart of Silence: Light Manifesto for a quieter soundtrack With this piece, I was aiming for something luminous, something that fills the soul, brimming over and radiant, like the Laurentides Park in the middle of winter, under the sun, with the evergreens draped in snow. In the middle of this forest, suddenly: silence. The silence that takes hold and fills the soul with profound joy. Suddenly, completely: we let down our guard. Body, heart, and spirit are reunited. With both feet planted in the silence, we can breathe again. At long last. Experiencing silence has become a rarity. Yet, as much as oxygen and water, human beings need silence. Why so much noise? What is hiding behind this wall of sound? A musician in love with silence: contradiction? A seeker of silence in love with music: contradiction? How is it possible to still want to compose in a world where the sonic landscape is so saturated? — Marianne Trudel
This concert is co-presented by Musagetes and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) as part of their Improviser-in-Residence program.
Marta McCarthy and The Gryphon Singers 36 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 S Gesturing Towards Zero · 9:30 am
Gesturing Towards Zero Elwood Jimmy Vanessa Andreotti CONVERSATION Threading Towards Zero Haruko Okano leslie mccue Towards Braiding is an artistic program led by Elwood Jimmy & Vanessa Lisa Hirmer Andreotti. Interwoven throughout Taqralik Partridge the first three days of the festival and culminating in this full day of 10:45 am – 12:30 pm conversations on Saturday are a series of experiments, entanglements, ASL Over the last year, Musagetes workshops, conversations, and art ASL supported the launch of the exhibitions that gesture towards more LC Thread Residencies, a program ethical and rigorous relationships and supporting artists who have, collaborations, and yet-unimaginable within their respective communities wiser futures with each other and and contexts, demonstrated a lifelong the Earth. commitment towards cultivating accountable, ethical, and rigorous 9:30 am practices and sensibilities around Beverages and snacks different ways of being and knowing, and interrupting and moving away from ASL 10:00 – 10:30 am harmful colonial habits of being and ASL Land acknowledgement colonial entitlements, as well as holding LC and introductory remarks space for complexity and multiple by Elwood Jimmy perspectives and layers around shared and Cheryl Trudeau global challenges. This conversation will focus on the learning and impacts on and of their practices over the last year through the Thread Residencies program.
38 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 12:30–1:00 pm CONVERSATION Lunch provided Radiant BOOK LAUNCH AND CONVERSATION Practices: Towards Relationship as Centre Scarring Our Sangamithra Iyer Collective Soul Anu Radha Verma Wound Anne Riley Cash Lisa Hirmer 2:15–3:45 pm Ahenakew ASL Responding to Towards Braiding’s 1:00–1:45 pm ASL invitation to make space for different sensibilities and ways of ASL Using the LC being, this conversation focuses ASL Sun Dance on relational practices that are deeply LC ceremony invested in the real relationships that to centre define who and how we are in the world. this new book, Cash Bringing together writer Sangamithra Ahenakew gestures Iyer, activist curator Anu Radha Verma to alternative and artist Anne Riley, with Thread forms of healing Residency artist and moderator Lisa that engage an understanding of our Hirmer, we will consider an expanded separation from the wider metabolism of territory for creative work that stretches which we form a part. Towards Scarring well past the conventional limits of Our Collective Soul Wound is the second individual projects and careers where book of the Towards Braiding series, what we do exists in relation with so part of an ongoing collaborative process much beyond itself. With the wisdom initiated by Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa of three practitioners who centre Andreotti, and hosted and published by relationship not as an addendum to Musagetes, addressing the difficulties their work but as their work itself, this and challenges of decolonization and conversation will be an opportunity Indigenization. to celebrate radiant practices of meaningful, deliberate care.
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 39
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 S Performance · 7:00 pm | Dance · 9:30 pm
CONCERT COMMUNITY DANCE Patricia Cano PARTY & Cots SOuLBEAUTiFUL DJ Durty Dabz 7:00 –9:00 pm River Run Centre, Co-operators Hall Untitled I ASL Influenced by South American 9:30 pm – Midnight · Licensed 19+ ASL folk forms such as Afro-Peruvian Red Papaya, 55 Wyndham St N LC rhythms and samba, Patricia Touching on the emotional seasons of Cano’s music is driven by the life and the spiritually physical journey groove of jazz, and the soul of folk and backwards from adulthood to childhood blues. Opening the evening will be a innocence and enthusiasm, Untitled I set by Cots, a new project from Steph expresses the emotional and energetic Yates (Esther Grey, Cupcake Ductape). highs and lows of discovering one’s Borrowing elements of bossa nova, truest self. SOuLBEAUTiFUL presents a folk, jazz, and classical, Yates’s subtly reflection of vulnerability, honesty, and unconventional composition style and relentless hope. poetics are at work here in a hushed and more naked voice. Choreographed and performed by CEaSaRO JAi and Jenna Oxley with two youth dancers. Presented by Guelph Dance
Overleaf: Cots 42 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 bigPromoting ideas to change communities and the world [email protected] @karenfarbridge Read my Urban Connector blog 226.979.5850 at karenfarbridge.ca
Proudly Sponsoring the ArtsEverywhere Festival.
56 WYNDHAM ST. NORTH DOWNTOWN GUELPH (519) 821-7982 - KNAR.COM SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 S Talks · 11:00 am
CONVERSATION CONVERSATION Taeyoon Choi Jason DaSilva Stephen Surlin AXS Map 2:00–4:00 pm Technology, Access, Canada Company Hall, River Run and Art Centre · Free 11:00 am – 1:00 pm ASL Jason Canada Company Hall, River Run ASL DaSilva Centre · Free has been LC a prolific filmmaker for the past 15 years. He has directed four short films (Olivia’s Puzzle, A Song For Daniel, Twins of Mankala, First Steps) and two feature length- documentary films (Lest We Forget and When I Walk). Olivia’s Puzzle premiered What does technology bring to ASL at the 2003 Sundance Festival. Three of disability and aging arts? Join us ASL his films have had national broadcasts for a dynamic exchange between on PBS, HBO, and CBC. DaSilva’s latest LC artists Taeyoon Choi and Stephen film, When I Walk, won a 2015 Emmy Surlin on disability, aging, accessibility Award for Outstanding Informational and technology as they discuss the ways Programming, was an Official Selection in which these things shape their own art of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and practices and disability and aging arts won Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs more broadly. 2013. In 2014, Jason also won three Co-presented with Bodies in Translation: awards: AAPD Mobility Magazine’s Person Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life of the Year, the Paul E. Hearn Leadership at the University of Guelph. Award, and the Christopher Award for Excellence in Film. Currently he is 1:00–2:00 pm · Lunch provided working on a new feature film When They Walk and on AXS Map, a website and accessibility database to find disability friendly places around the world.
44 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 ONE SIMPLE PURPOSE EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Your journey begins at homegrouprealty.ca
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 S Exhibition · 4:30 pm
Suzy Xu Shuang The Last Traditional Celebration
and way of life until the second half of 4:30–6:30 pm the 20th century. Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art Photos and Text by Suzy Xu Shuang In the 1950s, the Communist Party Exhibition runs (CCP) took control of the Cold January 15 to February 15 Mountains. Since then, the Nuosu Gallery Hours: Thursday through experienced the rapid loss of their Saturday, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm culture and identity as they were transformed dramatically from a Nuosu is one of the main branches of tribal society into a socialist society. Yi ethnic minority, based primarily in As a result, by the 1980s, the Cold Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture— Mountains, especially the central areas an area known as the “Cold Mountains” with the least geographic advantage located in the southern reaches of and imbalanced development, were Sichuan province, southwestern China. impoverished, flooded with drugs, With a population of over 3 million, and inundated by HIV infection. The the Nuosu of the Cold Mountains Nuosu society became one of the most trace a history over 5,000 years, with disregarded ethnic minorities in China, an enduring set of beliefs, social and and the constant targets of racism cultural practices, including a unique and discrimination. The Nuosu have astronomical calendar and hieroglyphs. been labelled uncivilized, uncultivated, For thousands of years, nobody—not uneducated drug traffickers/abusers, even Han or Tibetans who occupied HIV infectors, thieves, and barbarians. areas around the Cold Mountains—could In the Yi’s solar calendar, which enter without being captured as slaves originated over 10,000 years ago, there or killed. In some cases the Nuosu noble are 10 months in a year and 36 days in a class would act as the guarantors, month, with the remaining five days set promising safety and assigning them aside to celebrate the transition to the bodyguards. Besides, the journey into new year. The Nuosu’s most important the Cold Mountains was full of danger celebration is the New Year holidays, and risk due to geographic obstacles when every Nuosu returns home for the and rival nobles who controlled different family and clan reunion no matter how territories within the mountains. These far they must travel. “The strength of factors contributed to the remarkable the horse is from the waist, the strength persistence of Nuosu beliefs, traditions, of the Nuosu is from the clan. No one
48 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 S Exhibition · 4:30–6:30 pm
can survive without cattle, sheep and can be seen together at home in their food. No one can live on without the village. In the early morning, the young clan,” as the old Nuosu proverb says, the men gather together and go to every clan is essential to the Nuosu from their house to help kill the pigs that have birth to death. And one of the vital parts been carefully raised and chosen for of the Nuosu New Year’s celebration is this special event. The Nuosu only to visit their relatives, bringing pork as slaughter the animals they raise for a gift. A Nuosu family that can’t afford special occasions—for guests, funerals, a pig whether it’s raised or purchased weddings, and the New Year. However, during the New Year is despised by the once they move, they can no longer keep neighbours and the clan. In other words, fire or cook indoors, and without land to the Nuosu confirm their social status raise pigs, they are increasingly removed and bonding within the clan during the from the basic elements and practices New Year holidays. of their next New Year’s celebration. In recent years, the Chinese government Though the government asked them to has not only cracked down on drug celebrate in the newly built settlements, trafficking and drug abuse, but also they refused due to the lack of water taken massive targeted measures and space for raising pigs. They will have towards poverty alleviation in the Cold to move permanently after the New Mountains. The CCP has been building Year, when the government dismantles highways and high-speed railways their old homes and confiscates their throughout the Cold Mountains, and at farming and herding land. Without land the same time, forcing the Nuosu who to provide their families with adequate used to live high up in the mountains produce and livestock, and to maintain to abandon their old houses and move close connections to the clan, those to newly built settlements clustered in the family who are strong enough around towns and county seats. While migrate away towards employment in these developments have provided towns and cities, thousands of miles increased access to transportation, away from home. The unity of the clan education, and medical services, the weakens. This is one of the typical Nuosu have to give up their traditional yet dramatic changes that hundreds way of living—herding, farming, and of thousands of Nuosu families are their ways of cooking and celebrating. currently facing. As the largest scale migration in their history proceeds, In Nuosu culture, the family always the Nuosu reluctantly yet quickly have comes first, so during the New Year, moved towards assimilation with the every Nuosu will go back home no Han ethnic Chinese majority, and away matter how far they travel from the from their own traditions, cultures and places they work. It’s the only time values. when every young man and woman 50 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 The father of the family that is featured in this photographic series died due to his drug addiction, yet his brothers and cousins continue to help the family, especially with the children. One of the boys goes to the school sponsored by a local non-profit organization and learns how to make and play some stringed instruments, but the girls don’t have their brother’s luck. They are smart, strong kids - hungry for knowledge and to create. They never complain about the poverty, the lack of educational opportunities, or the heavy work at home. Everyone is close to each other. They talk and laugh as they celebrate the New Year in their old home for the last time.
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 51
GUelph’s Campus and Community Radio Station Since 1980! Get Involved Today! No Radio Experience necessary, and all the training is free!
Visit Us in room 201 of the university centre, or email us at [email protected]. learn more at cfru.ca Bios
W T F S S W T F S S BIOGRAPHIES
Anne Riley cultivate music that embraces the unique individual life experiences of its participants. Anne Riley is an Indigiqueer multidisciplinary This often manifests through improvisation, artist living as a Slavey Dene/German guest text, the human voice, electro-acoustic worlds, from Fort Nelson First Nation on the unceded learning from the biosphere, and exploring w w Territories of the x mə⌀k ə`yəm (Musqueam), multi-stylistic compositional frameworks. Ben Skwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlíłwəta?ł founded and facilitates the Westben Centre for (Tsleil-waututh) Nations. Her work explores Connection & Creativity’s international/multi- different ways of being and becoming, touch, generational Performer-Composer Residency. and Indigeneity. She received her BFA from He is a graduate of the Performer-Composer the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 program at CalArts, and is a current PhD and in 2016 she graduated from the Native candidate of Critical Studies in Improvisation Education College with a Certificate in Family at the University of Guelph, studying music and Community Counseling. She has exhibited festivals as sites of environmental and both in the United States and Canada. She is existential stewardship. www.benfinley.ca currently working with T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss on a collaborative public art project that was Bonnie Devine commissioned by the City of Vancouver called A Constellation of Remediation, which consists Bonnie Devine is an installation artist, of Indigenous Remediation Gardens planted sculptor, painter, video maker, curator, and throughout the city—decolonizing and healing writer. A descendant of the Anishinaabek of the dirt back to soil. Genaabaajing, (Serpent River First Nation) on the north shore of Lake Huron, Devine’s work Anu Radha Verma emerges from the storytelling and image- making traditions that are central to the culture Anu Radha Verma has lived, worked, studied, of the Anishinaabek. Using cross disciplinary played, struggled and agitated in both approaches and iterations of written, visual, Canada and India. Her work has cut across and performative practice Devine explores sectors and places, but is always focused on issues of land, environment, treaty, history, the intersections of social justice, community and narrative. Though formally educated in and creativity. She has been focused on the sculpture and installation art at the Ontario suburbs as a place of brilliance and social College of Art and Design (OCAD U) and York change—having organized various queer and University, Devine’s most enduring learning trans, racialized community spaces locally. Anu came from her grandparents, who were Radha is a community-based consultant, an trappers on the Canadian Shield in northern independent curator and an organizer with Ontario. Devine’s installation, video, and QTBIPOC sauga (a grassroots gathering of curatorial projects have been shown in solo queer and trans BIPOC folks from across Peel). and group exhibitions and film festivals across She is a queer, diasporic, sometimes-femme, a Canada and in the USA, South America, Russia, survivor, and someone who lives with mental Europe, and China, including the Art Gallery of health struggles. Twitter: @aradhaverma Ontario, the Berlin Film Festival, the National Instagram: @eh.arr.vee Museum of the American Indian, and Today Art Museum in Beijing China. Associate Professor Ben Finley Emerita and Founding Chair of the Indigenous Visual Culture program at OCAD University, Ben Finley is a performer-composer specializing Devine lives and works in Toronto. in acoustic bass and electric bass (in multiple tunings and with effects). He grew up on a music festival farm, witnessing many Cash Ahenakew ecosystems of music making. The seeds of Dr. Cash Ahenakew is a First Nations’ scholar co-creative agency were sewn; Ben aims to whose research experience and interests
56 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 BIOGRAPHIES
focus on the areas of international indigenous are familiar the way dreams and shadows are; studies in education, indigenous curriculum there appear strange landscapes, the vague and pedagogy, and indigenous health and outlines of former lovers, a quiet queerness, the well-being. He has been a research associate feeling of motion. in international research projects on global citizenship education, international indigenous Doomsquad networks, and critical intercultural education at the universities of Oulu (Finland) and Doomsquad is a Toronto-based experimental Canterbury (Aotearoa/New Zealand). From trio formed by siblings Trevor, Jaclyn and Allie 2006 to 2012 Dr. Ahenakew lectured in the Blumas. Self-described as less of a band than International Indigenous Studies program at an “art project,” their musical creations tend to the University of Calgary on Aboriginal health veer to the abstract, psychedelic and ominous. and well-being; indigenous and Western Their new album, Let Yourself Be Seen, is the methodology; and indigenous theory and most assertive, ambitious, groove-sodden practice. Dr. Ahenakew’s doctoral dissertation, declaration of intent yet from the trio: the The Effects of Historical Trauma, Community sound of dance-floor believers and thinkers Capacity and Place of Residence on the firing on all personal and political fronts, at a Self-Reported Health of Canada’s Indigenous time when we need it most. Population, interprets quantitative data through indigenous theories. Dr. Ahenakew Eric Fischl is Plains Cree and his family comes from Eric Fischl is one of the most influential Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation. figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Born in New York in 1948, he now Cots lives in Sag Harbour with his wife, the painter Cots is a new project from Steph Yates (Esther April Gornik. Fischl is represented in over 50 Grey, Cupcake Ductape). Borrowing elements public collections, including The Met, MoMA, of bossa nova, folk, jazz, and classical, Yates’s the Guggenheim and the Whitney in New York, subtly unconventional composition style and the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirschhorn, poetics are at work here in a hushed and more the Dallas Museum, The Menil Collection, the naked voice. The sounds and images of Cots Kunstmuseen der Stadt in Krefeld, Germany, the Neue Gallerie in Aachen, the Musée
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 57 BIOGRAPHIES
Nationale D’Art Moderne in Paris, and the Art In 1974 she moved to the West coast, travelling Gallery of Ontario and The National Gallery of by foot and canoe through the northern parts Canada. He has been featured in over 1000 of the provinces where she fell in love with the publications and his autobiography, Bad Boy: land Canada…not the government. She has My Life On and Off the Canvas was called “a lived in Vancouver since then. brave and beautiful book” by The New Yorker’s As an interdisciplinary artist, Okano combines Adam Gopnik. Eric Fischl is a fellow at both the her concerns for the environment with issues American Academy of Arts and Letters and the of cultural identity and human rights. The American Academy of Arts and Science. emphasis with all of her art practice is about process, collaboration and integration. Guelph Symphony Orchestra Guelph Symphony Orchestra was founded Jason DaSilva as the Guelph Chamber Orchestra in 2001, Jason DaSilva has been a prolific filmmaker for through the passion and vision of Simon Irving, the past 15 years. He has directed four short and the commitment of dedicated Guelph films (Olivia’s Puzzle, A Song For Daniel, Twins of Community arts supporters. The GSO gave its Mankala, First Steps) and two feature length- first concert in March 2001 under the baton of documentary films (Lest We Forget and When Simon Irving. The name of the orchestra was I Walk). Olivia’s Puzzle premiered at the 2003 changed to Guelph Symphony Orchestra in Sundance Festival. Three of his films have had May 2003 to reflect the symphonic repertoire national broadcasts on PBS, HBO, and CBC. performed. DaSilva’s latest film, When I Walk, won a 2015 Judith Yan served as GSO’s Artistic Director Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational from the 2011–12 season until 2018–19. “We Programming, was an Official Selection of the have benefited greatly from Judith’s skill, 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won Best energy, commanding stage presence and Canadian Feature at Hot Docs 2013. In 2014, profound musicality,” General Manager Jason also won three awards: AAPD Mobility Catherine Molina said. “She has transformed Magazine’s Person of the Year, the Paul E. Hearn the orchestra. Virtually every guest artist and Leadership Award, and the Christopher Award conductor who comes here expresses that they for Excellence in Film. Currently he is working on are astounded to hear an orchestra of this a new feature film When They Walk and on AXS quality, in a relatively small community, and we Map, a website and accessibility database to have Judith to thank for that.” find disability friendly places around the world. GSO performs major symphonic repertoire for audiences in the City of Guelph and surrounding Judith Yan area. Comprised of musicians from the city Judith Yan is a Canadian conductor. and region, the orchestra performs regularly in Equally adept at conducting opera, ballet, the superb Mainstage Concert Hall of Guelph’s and symphony, her career has taken her River Run Centre. internationally, conducting for major companies in Europe, Asia, and North America. She has Haruko Okano held Staff Conductor positions at San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and National Haruko Okano is a Sansei Japanese-Canadian Ballet of Canada. born in Toronto during the last year of WWII. A single mother who passed away at the age of 42 raised her. Okano then became a permanent Khaled Barakeh ward of the Ontario Children’s Aid Society Khaled Barakeh is a Berlin-based conceptual until she turned 18. Okano no longer speaks artist and cultural activist. He graduated from Japanese — English is the only language left to the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, Syria her. in 2005, completed his MFA at Funen Art 58 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 BIOGRAPHIES
Academy in Odense, and a Meisterschuler study Theatre Collective – Chocolate Woman, a at the Städelschule Art Academy in Frankfurt. Resident Artist Educator at Young People’s Driven by his observations of longstanding Theatre and works independently with Kaha:wi social injustice, Barakeh approaches creative Dance Theatre and Indigenous Fashion Week practice as a tool for societal change; Toronto. manipulating commonplace visual and cultural leslie was recently offered a Thread Artist touchstones to expose and undermine stagnant Residency with Musagetes to research and power structures. Barakeh has exhibited at explore Indigenous death, dying, and grieving Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, The 11th Shanghai practises to create restorative spaces. The Biennale, The Frankfurter Kunstverein, Artspace work will result in an art installation and video New Zealand, The Busan Biennale, and MKG that will aim to reclaim our original practises Hamburg, among many others. and dismantle Western influences on how we process death. leslie mccue leslie kachena mccue is a member of the Lisa Hirmer Mississaugas of Curve Lake First Nation in Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist who Ontario, Canada. leslie is an artist who also works across visual media, social practice, works freelance for various organizations in arts performance and occasionally writing. administration, facilitation, project coordination She is primarily concerned with collective and curation. Her work is driven by her past, relationships: that which exists between things, her passion to educate, and the motivation to rather than simply within them—particularly empower others. in relation to collective beliefs and in human leslie was selected as a three year Fellow for relations with the more-than human world. Her the International Society for the Performing work finds home both in gallery contexts and Arts, is the Project Manager for Mola Dulad an expanded field of other public spaces. It has Media Collective’s Ancestral Future’s Project, is been shown across Canada and internationally. currently at the Royal Ontario Museum as an She has received numerous grants and Indigenous Knowledge Resource Teacher and residencies for her work including from Canada Coordinator for the ROM Youth Cabinet. leslie Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, is also the Administrator for the Indigenous Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Camargo
GORDON HILL PRESS Winter 2020 Authors – www.gordonhillpress.com Matthew Tomkinson Mike Chaulk Amy LeBlanc Geoffrey Morrison
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 59 BIOGRAPHIES
Foundation. Singers in performance at Podium in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 2019, Gryphon Singers won Marianne Trudel 2nd nationally among college and university choirs. Marianne Trudel is a multi-talented pianist, composer, improvisor, and arranger. At once Marta is a Past President of Choral Canada, energetic and passionate, her music cross- through which she served the national choral cuts a wide swath of musical interests. As community for six years. In 2014 she conducted a performer, she pursues an active career the prestigious Ontario Youth Choir, in 2015 in a variety of settings ranging from solo the Ontario Youth Choir Alumni, and in 2017 performance to duo (Karen Young), Trifolia, the New Brunswick Youth Choir. Dr. McCarthy’s Marianne Trudel 4 + Ingrid Jensen, septet, and contributions to research in choral performance large ensembles. She has presented her music in include presentations at the 2017 World Choral various countries across North America, Europe, Symposium in Barcelona and the 2019 World and Asia. Her previous studies have included Choral Expo in Lisbon. a Master in Ethnomusicology (Université de Montréal), a Bachelor in Jazz Performance Nathalie Bujold (McGill University), and numerous workshops Nathalie Bujold is a multidisciplinary artist living in North America and Europe (Banff Centre for and working in Montreal. In 1985, she was one the Arts, Henri Mancini Institute, Vancouver of the founders of the artist-run centre l’Œil Creative Music workshop, Jazz Orchestra – de Poisson in Quebec City. She obtained an NYC). Marianne Trudel currently teaches at undergraduate degree from Université Laval in McGill University (Schulich school of Music) and 1992, where she won the René-Richard Award. at Cegep de Saint-Laurent. In 2008, she received the Artistic Creation Award from the Conseil des arts et des lettres Marta McCarthy du Québec. She received her master’s degree & The Gryphon Singers in Studio and Media Arts from UQAM in Dr. Marta McCarthy, Conductor, is an Associate 2016. Bujold has shown across Canada and Professor at the University of Guelph, where internationally. Her video work is distributed she has been directing the choirs and teaching by Vidéographe and she is represented by musicianship, pedagogy, and research since ELLEPHANT Gallery in Montreal. 1995. She is a graduate of Westminster Choir College of Princeton (M.Mus), the Patricia Cano Royal Conservatory of Music (ARCT, piano Patricia Cano was born in Sudbury, ON where performance) and of the University of Toronto she grew up in a Peruvian household. Upon (B.Mus, B.Ed., Ph.D.). Honours include the 1999 graduating from University of Toronto in Elmer Iseler Conducting Fellowship, an Ontario Theatre and Spanish Literature, Patricia spent Volunteer Service Award, and being named a five years working in Paris (France) with the member of the June Callwood Circle of Caring. world-renowned theatre company, Le Théâtre In 2005, she was awarded the Guelph Woman du soleil, during which time she was sent to of Distinction for Arts & Culture. Seoul (South Korea) for three months to study In 2011 McCarthy led the Chamber Singers traditional South Korean folk singing and to first place in the ACCC National Amateur drumming. After leaving the French company, Choir Competition (Collegiate category) and Patricia spent seven months in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, the same choir won third place in (Brazil) listening, playing, singing and feeling the Mosbach International Chamber Choir her way through the exceptional Carioca music Competition in Germany. In 2012, Marta scene! conducted the Women’s Chamber Choir at In 2009, Patricia launched her singing career Podium in Ottawa, and in 2018 led the Gryphon here at home with her debut album called
60 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 BIOGRAPHIES
This Is the New World, co-created—in four places we care for amidst often the isolating languages—with her Brazilian musical partner, aspects of our daily lives. Written alone at Carlos Bernardo. This album won “Best Album home, beginning many tracks on his family — Solo artist” at the NOMFA 2011 (North piano, Sight brings influence from ambient Ontario Music & Film Award Conference). music, ‘70s Brazilian folk, ‘80s Bollywood disco, modern cumbia and much, much more. Sight Another very important musical influence in takes us beyond the trappings of technology, Patricia’s artistic career is Tomson Highway, emphasizing earnest, analog essences amidst Canada’s premiere Cree playwright and our hyper-curated modern media-feeds. composer. Since 2001, Patricia has toured the world alongside Tomson Highway, singing and performing his songs and stories in a Sangamithra Iyer one-woman Cree cabaret. From Montreal Sangamithra Iyer is a writer and engineer to Rio de Janeiro to Prague and beyond, this who holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering from collaboration continues today. the Cooper Union, an M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Philip Mayer Creative Writing from Hunter College. Sangu was an Emerging Writer Fellow at Aspen Philip Mayer is a New York City based Summer Words, a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize percussionist and multi-instrumentalist. With for New Environmental Literature, and was a deep interest in music traditions from around nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has the world, Philip has spent much of the last been published by The Kenyon Review, Newtown 15 years absorbing the offerings of a diverse Literary, n+1, Creative Nonfiction, Hen Press group of master percussionists including Zohar and Hippocampus Magazine. Her writing on Fresco (Israel), John Reilly (USA), Pandit Samir animals has also been anthologized in several Chaterjee (India), Mehmet Akatay (Turkey), collections including Sister Species (University Michel Merhej (Lebanon) and Aleix Tobias of Illinois Press), Primate People (University of (Spain). He has performed in Japan, across Utah Press) and Writing for Animals (Ashland Europe, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Creek Press). She served as an editor at Satya North America with such artists as Natalie Magazine and an associate for the public Merchant, of Montreal, Kishi Bashi, The New policy action tank Brighter Green. She lives York Arabic Orchestra, Coleman Barks and in Queens, NY and works on protecting New Ahmed Alshaiba. Additionally, Philip originated York City’s Water Supply. She has received the drum book for the Broadway show The support from the Jerome Foundation and Band’s Visit, which won 10 Tony Awards, an the Camargo Foundation. Her first book, Emmy, and earned a GRAMMY for best cast Governing Bodies (Milkweed Editions 2022), album in 2018. is a lyrical reckoning of the ways bodies— human, animal, and water—are controlled and Pick A Piper liberated, intertwining the story of her paternal There’s a difference between when something grandfather, who quit his job as an engineer in enters your periphery and when you can truly colonial Burma to join the Freedom Movement see it. Sight, the enveloping new album from in India, with her own journey as an engineer Toronto electronic explorer Brad Weber, aka and activist. sangamithraiyer.com. Pick A Piper, focuses on authentic connection. The Caribou collaborator’s follow-up to 2017’s SOuLBEAUTiFUL acclaimed Distance is an immersive dream of SOuLBEAUTiFUL (CEaSaRO JAi, Jenna delirious synth shudders, pulsing beats, eclectic Oxley, and CHRiS ROuSE) is a collective of instrumentation and diverse digital dimensions multi-talented artists in their own right. Each of sound that facilitate presence in listening: member of the team is uniquely and diversely turning attention to the real life people and skilled in a variety of artistic modalities.
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 61 BIOGRAPHIES
The members of SOuLBEAUTiFUL have The Guelph Youth Jazz Ensemble come together to share their expertise and unique experiences to enhance the Arts and The Guelph Youth Jazz Ensemble (GYJE) Entertainment industry with fresh ideas and provides young musicians with the opportunity new energy. to learn about and explore the world of jazz and improvised music. The program was started in Stephen Surlin 2001 by the director Brent Rowan as a place for his private saxophone students to play together Stephen Surlin is a Toronto-based sound in a jazz quartet. From there it grew to become artist, designer, musician, and graduate of an ensemble for youth in the community to the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media, learn about jazz styles and improvised music. and Design at OCAD University. His current In 2006 it became the GYJE obtaining Not For PhD work includes sound and visual design Profit status in 2018. and interactive movement technologies with Under the direction of Brent Rowan, original aging and elder people. He has worked with and standard jazz music is written and Tangled Arts and Creative Users on multimedia arranged specifically for the ensemble. From accessible soundscape installations. Ellington-Herman-Davis-Gillespie-Elias- Coltrane and Derome, many styles of jazz and Taeyoon Choi improvised music are explored. Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, and organizer based in New York and Seoul. Choi VERSA co-founded the School for Poetic Computation VERSA is a Guelph-based audiovisual collective where he continues to organize sessions led by Monika Hauck and Alex Ricci. The duo and teach classes on electronics, drawings, create powerful instrumental music written and social practice. His art practice involves around live looping bass guitar, and pair this performance, computing, drawings, and with responsive projections that visualize installations. Choi published artists’ books, sound. Low frequency sound is passed including Urban Programming 101 and Anti- through a subwoofer into a liquid bath. This Manifesto. He co-organized the New York Tech creates undulating, cymatic patterns in the Zine Fair and Code Ecologies. He presented liquid, into which Hauck drops coloured ink. projects at the Whitney Museum of American The entire process is captured and projected Art, the New Museum, Los Angeles County as a synesthetic accompaniment to the Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art and performance. VERSA has performed at festivals internationally. He teaches at the numerous Canadian music and art events Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. including Hillside Festival, Electric Eclectics, He collaborates with disability community Hold Fast Contemporary Arts Festival, Kazoo! members to unlearn the wall of disability and Fest, Wavelength Music Festival, Shine On and normalcy and enhancing accessibility and Nuit Blanche Ottawa/Gatineau. inclusion within art and technology.
Taqralik Partridge Suzy Xu Shuang Suzy Xu Shuang ( ) is a storyteller of Taqralik Partridge is a textile artist, writer, 徐爽 traditions, ancient and contemporary cultures. and spoken word poet originally from She also explores portraiture and landscape in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. She is currently based in a poetic way. Guovdageaidnu, Sápmi, Norway.
62 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020 CREDITS
Organizers Anna Bowen Jordan Delfs Administrative Assistant, 10C Shared Space and Volunteers Musagetes Candace deTaeye Claire Alexander, Vanessa Peggy Dix Publication Studio Guelph Andreotti, Thomas Aldridge, Finance Manager, Musagetes Michael Barnstijn, Domingo Ryan Edwardson Bernal, Keren Bromberg, Julia Coman Poon Ryan Edwardson Photography Access and Culture of Care Lead, Busatto, In’am Carere, Rachel Sandra Evans ArtsEverywhere Festival Collins, Kerry-Ann Cornwall, Barking Dog Studios Helene Duguay, Karen Farbridge, Shauna McCabe Julia Grady Michael Greer, Peter Grimaldi, Executive Director, Barking Dog Studios Valerie Hall, Jane Hastings, Julie Art Gallery of Guelph Hastings, Ajay Heble, Jeremy Jill Grantmyre Robbyne MacKenzie Luke Hill, Kristin Honey, Elwood River Run Centre Jimmy, Siddhartha Joag, Amia Community Engagement Khosla, Allison LaSorda, Louise Coordinator, Art Gallery of Alex Goss MacCallum, Lisa Maldonado, Guelph City of Guelph Shauna McCabe, David Mellissa McDonald Andrea Harding McConnell, Lynne McCurdy, University of Guelph Centre for International Douglas McMullen, Sarah Governance Innovation Megans, Taylor Moran, Pam David Aitken Mundy, Claire Mussar, Judith University of Guelph Gordon Hatt Contemporary Art Forum Nasby, Sandra O’Connor, Sheila Gareth Lind Kitchener + Area O’Reilly, Brady Patterson, Sonia Lind Design Priesler, Laura Pollock, Jagdeep Ajay Heble Raina, Crista Renner, Justine Thanks International lnstitute for Critical Richardson, Carolyn Riddell, Joy Studies in Improvisation Roberts, Tracy Tidgewell, Carol The organizers wish to thank Tyler, Shawn Van Sluys, Curtis the following people who gave Jeremy Luke Hill Walker, Tarah Walsh, Bruce generously of their time and Gordon Hill Press talents to make the 2020 Weaver, Betty Wickett, Martyn Rena Hooey ArtsEverywhere Festival a lively Worsnop River Run Centre and interesting community event. Thanks also to all of the Dave Horner Kayla Besse, Eliza Chandler, volunteers who offered their time River Run Centre and energy after this program Lindsey Fisher, Ingrid Mundel went to press. Carla Rice, Tracy Tidgwell Aimée Ippersiel Bodies in Translation The Walrus magazine Production Team Samantha Brennan Emily Johnston University of Guelph Kazoo! Fest Shawn Van Sluys Executive Director, Musagetes Patti Broughton Nathan Lawr Guelph Arts Council Guelph Film Festival Marva Wisdom Festival Director, ArtsEverywhere Monica Carere Dawn Matheson Festival Humdingers Artist Elwood Jimmy Charlotte Clarke Erin MacIndoe Sproule Indigenous Program Coordinator, The Bookshelf Anthroscope Media Musagetes Peter Coleman Scott McGovern Taylor Moran The Bookshelf Ed Video Community Coordinator, Rachel Collins Melissa McGrath ArtsEverywhere Festival International lnstitute for Critical Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Studies in Improvisation Curtis Walker Brad McInerney Communications and Production Christopher Currie Kazoo! Fest Coordinator, Musagetes CFRU 93.3FM Kristina McMullin Tangled Arts + Disability
ArtsEverywhere Festival 2019 63 CREDITS
Matthew McQuade Cai Sepulis Tammy Wright Intrigue Media Toque Stonefields Management Rohinton Medhora Karina Shares Steph Yates Centre for International River Run Centre Publication Studio Guelph Governance Innovation Kimber Sider Samual Zajdlik Carolyn Meili Guelph Film Festival Bite Catering Stonefields Management Ilanna Tamari Marie Zimmerman Barb Minett River Run Centre lnstitute for Critical Studies The Bookshelf in Improvisation Heather Thelwell CANADA’S Ben Minett Publication Studio Guelph Arianna Zimmerman The Bookshelf Eden Mills Writer’s Festival Scott Thompson Liz O’Donell Guelph Jazz Festival Thank you also to our access Guelph Today ambassadors and the team Chris Tiessen co-led by Marva Wisdom and Justine Richardson Toque Coman Poon. lnstitute for Critical Studies Catrina von Radecki in Improvisation Guelph Dance! To volunteer or for Sara Roque Mark Ventry Towards Braiding more information on Bite Catering Adriana Rosselli Londoño upcoming events Andrew Vowles Guelph Dance [email protected] University of Guelph Joy Sammy 10C Shared Space CONVERSATION “Congratulations to the Guelph Black Heritage Now, more than ever, Canada needs Society on breaking independent, fact-based journalism. ground toward making Heritage Hall a fully accessible space! Join Canada’s Conversation: We are happy to support your thewalrus.ca/subscribe important work during Black History Month and throughout the year. We look forward to partnering with you in making space for all to belong.” — ArtsEverywhere Festival Team To see all of GBHS upcoming events, please visit guelphblackheritage.ca/events
64 ArtsEverywhere Festival 2020