ON THE GO: WALKING AND LOCATIVE PRACTICES
Saturday October 11 - 5:30 PM
Meet at Theatre Junction Grand, 2nd floor
608 -1ST ST. SW
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This walking panel will explore the subjects of public intervention, offsite, and site-specific performance. During this highly interactive panel, attendees will tour the streets of Calgary, led by locomotive facilitators. Part lecture, part performance, this panel will pose the questions: How can we rethink our relationships to the spaces we live in? How do these relationships change as we move through a particular space? How do our modes of transport and movement impact our perception of a space? How are these processes communicated and shared with an audience? Panel facilitators will interact with attendees and with the general population at large during the walk.
Panelists include Cindy Baker (Saskatoon), Kloetzel &co (Calgary), Hazel Meyer (Montreal) and Jessica MacCormack (Montreal), The Ministry of Walking represented by Kay Burns (Calgary) and Renato Vitic (Calgary), with a special appearance by Citizen Justice (aka Morgan Sea). |
| Renato Vitic has toiled in the arts community in Calgary in various roles such as the Festival Coordinator for the Mountain Standard Time Performantive Art Festival (M:ST), the Manager of Resource development for the Art Gallery of Calgary, a member of the Board of directors of the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society (M:ST), and now as the Director of TRUCK Gallery. Recently completing a residency at the Banff Centre, Renato presented an interactive collaborative performance with the Ministry of Walking, and presented five walking performances as part of the “Walking and Art” thematic residency. Recent performances in Calgary have included the Afrika Dey Ministry of Walking Postcard Project, and the public book shredding performance in the STRIDE Gallery +15 exhibition space entitled, “Public Good.” Renato has exhibited his performance and painted works both in Calgary, Edmonton, and Halifax and will be performing as a member of the walking collective, “The Ministry of Walking,” in Calgary as part of the Performance Creation Canada Conference this coming October, 2008 |
Renato Vitic |
| Kloetzel&co, an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, holds an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of California at Riverside in addition to a B.A. and an M.A. in History from Swarthmore College and the University of Montana, respectively. Kloetzel is the artistic director of kloetzel&co, which she founded in New York in 1997 and which has traveled with her across the US and now into Canada. kloetzel&co. has performed in New York at such venues as Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, Judson Church, and the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, as well as internationally at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, On the Boards in Seattle, University of Victoria, and the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, CA, among others. Since its inception, kloetzel&co. has moved between theatres and more unconventional sites, seeking out distinctive spaces and artistic collaborations along the way. Kloetzel’s film works, Back Doors and Icarus Fried, have been shown in gallery spaces and performance venues across the US and at such film festivals as the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema in Boulder, CO, the DANSCAMDANSE Festival in Ghent, Belgium, and the Danca em Foco Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kloetzel has received grants/awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts program, the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, the Gateway Technology Initiative, and the Movement Research Exchange program. She was also a 2003 recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship Award from The University of California. Kloetzel has performed nationally and internationally with such artists as Ann Carlson, Leah Stein, and Kim Arrow and was a member of Race Dance under the direction of Lisa Race from 1995-2000. Kloetzel was the Director of the Dance program at Idaho State University from 2004 - 2007. Her work has been published and presented at numerous journals and conferences and her book, Site Dance, is currently in press at University Press of Florida. |
Melanie Kloetzel - Kloetzel&co |
Cindy Baker is an interdisciplinary and performance artist whose practice is influenced by gender culture, queer theory, fat activism and art theory. With a background of working, volunteering, and sitting on the board for several artist-run centres in Western Canada, she has a particular interest in the function of artist-run centres as a breeding ground for deviation. She has exhibited and performed across Canada, and recently made an appearance at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis as part of Artery 24, a 24-hour performance festival.
www.populust.ca/cinde |
Cindy Baker |
| Jessica MacCormack’s work combines various elements of interactivity, performance, intervention, installation, and video. She is currently completing an MFA through the Public Art and New Artistic Strategies program at Bauhaus University in Germany. Hazel Meyer is a Toronto-based visual artist who has worked as a fabric designer at Tricots Liesse, founded the Hound’s tooth, forsooth! fabricLAB, and exhibits her projects inter/nationally. She is currently attending the inaugural year of OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design. |
Jessica MacCormack and Hazel Meyer |
Ministry of Walking (Represented by Kay Burns) is a loosely knit collective of artists and activists dedicated to the promotion of perambulatory activities. The Ministry of Walking began as a Calgary-based collective of individuals who value the experience of walking as a vital and integrated part of their everyday life, their work, and/or their artistic practice. The Ministry holds regular perambulatory gatherings to discuss thoughts and ideas pertaining to their walking practice and has expanded to include participant walkers from across Canada. Current Ministry members include: Donna Akrey, Katherine Bourke, Kay Burns, Tomas Jonsson, Janine Miedzik, Shara Rosko, Holly Schmidt, Ryan Statz and Renato Vitic.
Ministry of Walking Website
Kay Burns Website |
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| When Morgan Sea is not busy thwarting man-made doom and overcoming mass media manipulation, he utilizes the found objects from his curbside dumpster diving exploits to create crafts. Originally from Saskatchewan, he has lived in Calgary and currently resides in Montréal where he is studying at Concordia University. |
Citizen Justice |
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