Performances + Workshops
Emerge - Day 3

Daina Ashbee + Anne Bénichou

Thu, 11/21/2019
7:00 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

7:00 pm
Laborious Song
Daina Ashbee
  
In Laborious Song, Daina Ashbee explores movement in order to break down layers of resilience, uncovering vulnerable shapes, forms and bodies. The work uses repetition as a driving force to reach points of trance and transformation, to evoke rhythm while manifesting energetic states and asking both performer and audience to bear. The act of physical labor leads us to places of pleasure and climax, freeing ourselves from given structures and radiating in intimate play. Gianni Bardaro’s music seems to enter the dark spaces of our bodies, slowly chiseling through our pain.


Daina Ashbee is an artist, performer and choreographer based in Montréal, known for her radical works at the edge of dance and performance. She was named one of 25 artists to watch by the American publication Dance Magazine in 2018, and she received in 2019 the Bessie Award for Outstanding “Breakout” Choreographer.

With the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts
Résidences de création La Briqueterie/Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique (FR), fabrik – Potsdam (DE), Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival (GL), CEPRODAC (MX), Bad Lemons (DE), The Chocolate Factory (US)

7:30 pm
Workshop
Chantal Pontbriand
Prelude 3: “You don’t need to, Emerge from nothing, You don’t need to, Tear away.”

Anne Bénichou
Incorporer, excorporer les images d’un conflit

Can the body contribute to our understanding of images of conflict produced by citizen journalism, and to our investigation of the stories we build from them? To outline a few potential lines of inquiry, Anne Bénichou will turn to two works by Israeli choreographer Arkadi Zaides, Archive (2014) and Capture Practice (2014), that use video archives from an Israeli human rights organization in the occupied territories. Through the incorporation and excorporation of violence, he encourages us to release these images from the realm of the documentary and to recognize their performative dimension and underlying forms of agency.
 
Anne Bénichou (Montréal) is a professor in the department of Art History and Theory at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques, and Director of Graduate Programs in Museum Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research deals with archives, memorial forms, and historical narratives of contemporary art practices and the institutions responsible for their presentation and preservation.