Performances + Workshops
Emerge - Day 2

Marie-Caroline Hominal - Bridget Moser - Alice Ming Wai Jim - Ronald Rose-Antoinette

Wed, 11/20/2019
6:00 PM Musée d'art contemporain

Free admission, ticket required
Tickets available starting Friday, November 8 online (macm.org/en/buy-tickets/) and at the MAC ticket counter

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Marie-Caroline Hominal

In this performance in three chapters, Marie-Caroline Hominal falls on top of boxes, sells her performances, and speaks with an auctioneer and the public. Her work raises questions about authorship, identity issues, and the art market.
 
Marie-Caroline Hominal has trained with dancers in Zurich (TanzAkademie) and in London (Rambert School), where she was part of the National Youth Dance Company. She regularly collaborates with other artists, and has danced for Tanztheater Basel, Irène Tassembdeo, Gisèle Vienne, Gilles Jobin, La Ribot, William Forsythe, among others.

With the generous support of Pro Helvetia

7:00 pm
Scream if You Want to Go Faster
Bridget Moser

Scream if You Want to Go Faster is a new 30-minute performance that borrows strategies associated with performance art, prop comedy, experimental theatre and dance, and shifts abruptly and unexpectedly between brief scenes that deal with the feeling of accelerating into impending doom. Moser performs a series of monologues, movements, conversations, and abstract gestures alongside sound compositions, pop music, orchestral classics and other noises, with a cast of inanimate objects including a rigid pool noodle, a garbage bin, water dumbbells and a small chenille doormat, among others. 
 
Bridget Moser has presented her work in venues across Canada, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Mercer Union, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Western Front. She has been a resident artist at Fondazione Antonio Ratti and visiting faculty at The Banff Centre. She has been shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award representing Ontario.

7:30 pm
Workshop
Chantal Pontbriand
Prelude 2: “You don’t need to, Emerge from nothing, You don’t need to, Tear away, Look alive!”

Alice Ming Wai Jim
Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal: Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art

Alice Ming Wai Jim (Montréal) will share some of her experiences as the local convener of GAX’s first exchange in Canada, as well as reflect on its impact on decolonizing research and activism and present-day coalition building between Indigenous, marginalized, and ally groups. Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal: Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art was held in June 2019, a first-time partnership between the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU’s Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) Network, and Concordia University. GAX 2019 held a series of group sessions, public conference, panels, and exhibitions, bringing together over fifty international and local artists, curators, and scholars to exchange knowledge about relational approaches to the making, presentation and study of Indigenous and Asian diasporic contemporary art.
 
Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim (Montréal) is Professor of Contemporary Art History at Concordia University, where she is Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories. She is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Her research on diasporic art in Canada and contemporary Asian art has generated new dialogues within and between ethnocultural and global art histories, media arts, and critical curatorial studies.

Ronald Rose-Antoinette
Vivacité et performance
 
The concerted efforts to differentiate life from art will not keep us alive. I have devoted my own work, that is my research, that is my life, to the practice of the vivacious, that is the beautiful, that is the inextricable. If I can't make art without a frame, a viewpoint or a witness, it doesn't matter if I want to live. The intention at the centre of this presentation is to radicalize performance as a means for the sweet, hedonic organization of life, and it is my hope that Danmyé, a martial art from Martinique, will allow us to do exactly that.    
 
Ronald Rose-Antoinette is a Martinican writer and curator currently based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, Canada. He is the co-author of Fabulations nocturnes (Open Humanities Press, 2017), an experimental book dwelling in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s cinema. He has published widely on art and moving images including in Inflexions: A Journal for Research Creation, MICE Magazine and Flash Art International.