CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
10033
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Title:
SpokenWeb AV
Source Collection ID:
ArchiveOfThePresent
Source Collection Description:
SpokenWeb Audio Visual Collection
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SpokenWeb
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
https://archiveofthepresent.spokenweb.ca/_nuxt/img/header-img_1000.fd7675f.png
Series Title:
SpokenWeb Events
Sub Series Title:
SpokenWeb AV
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
SpokenWeb Events AV, Performing Technology: SpokenWeb presents Oana Avasilichioaei, 14 November 2019
Title Source:
https://spokenweb.ca/events/performing-technology-spokenweb-presents-oana-avasilichioaei/
Language:
English
Production Context:
Home recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution (BY)
License:
Creative Commons Attribution (BY)
CREATORS
Name:
Oana Avasilichioaei
Name:
Nik Forrest
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
01:44:29
Size:
1,658,797,184 bytes
Notes:
MP3 audio
Title:
Forrest.Avasilichioaei.McLeod_PerformingTechnology_2019.11.14.TrLR
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Dates
Date:
2019-11-14
Type:
Performance Date
LOCATION
Address:
4th Space, Concordia University
Venue:
Concordia University McConnell Building
Latitude:
45.4968036
Longitude:
-73.57792785757887
CONTENT
Contents:
Performing Technology is an investigation into the electroacoustic tools and methods that poets and sound-artists use to manipulate and create sound poetry and sound art. Join us for performances and conversations about methods of listening to our sonic environments.
Opening performance debuts a new sonic creation "Sonic Thresholds: 4th Space" by Concordia PhD student, Nik Forrest, the recipient of a SpokenWeb research creation award.
Feature performance by poet and sound-artist Oana Avasilichioaei performing her multimedia piece OPERATOR, which explores the subject position(s) of military drone operators through text, video, improvisation, and live electroacoustic sound.
After the performances, a Q&A panel with performers explores the technology used in their artistic practice, along with questions such as: How can technology compose poetic sound? Can ‘smart’ tech be ‘smart’ sound? What happens when improvisation meets technology? Audience members are encouraged to ask questions and to reflect upon the experience of hearing this performance with and through technology. Free to attend and all are welcome.
Oana Avasilichioaei interweaves poetry, translation, photography, sound, and performance to explore an expanded idea of language, polylingual and polyphonic poetics, historical structures, borders, and orality. Her six poetry collections include We, Beasts (Wolsak & Wynn 2012, A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry), Limbinal (Talonbooks 2015), and Eight Track (Talonbooks, 2019), a poetic, sonic, visual investigation of ideas around tracks/tracking. Recent sound-performance works include EIGHT OVER TWO (2019, Semi Silent Award) and OPERATOR (2018), and she is currently writing a libretto for a one-act opera (FAWN, Toronto). She has also translated eight books of poetry and prose, including Bertrand Laverdure’s Readopolis (Book*hug 2017, Governor General Literary Award). Based in Montreal, Avasilichioaei was the 2018 Audain Visual Artist in Residence at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Read more about Avasilichioaei's work here: https://www.oanalab.com/
Nik Forrest is a trans-disciplinary artist based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Currently a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia, their research combines sound studies, gender studies and creative practice in sound performance and installation. Their sound installations have been shown at Oboro (Montreal), Eastern Block (Montreal), Paved Arts and New Media (Saskatoon), Latitude 54 (Edmonton) and most recently at the Kunsthalle Mulhouse (France). Their short experimental videos have been shown widely at festivals, galleries and museums both in Canada and internationally. Previous sound & video performance: https://vimeo.com/275675933
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