Instructions for an Unexpected Absence (2010)
instructions, studio 303, montreal, quebec
mp3 audio track
Instructions for an unexpected absence is an invitation to occupy an empty stage. It is a pragmatic text that came from a desire to exist in two spaces at one time. I could not be present for the performance but wanted to offer someone my place on the stage. It was intended as a gesture of affection to the people I could not encounter. With the aim to play with limitations, and an ability to adjust to constraints, a series of propositions were developed.
The performance consists of a mp3 audio track where I apologize for my absence and invite the audience to take my place on the stage. The participants are then lead through a series of simple movement instructions.
photo credit: jean-francoise lalumiere
180 seconds (2009)
short and sweet, la sala rosa, montreal, quebec
A performer is given the simple instructions that she must transport herself form the stage to the bar without touching the ground in 180 seconds.
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le party, la 2e porte a gauche, montreal, quebec.
A series of instruction were sent to a group of performers from Berlin to Montreal. A series of restrictions were imposed, a set of tasks were to be fulfilled. The improvisation was framed by these limitations.
