Salaam Salon IV : Site Specific Performances, Installations and Nighttime Fun

I really want to go to this. Highly recommended all around....

"Salaam Salon IV
~ site specific series ~
Dec 28th • 8pm+

the memelab
1814 pandora st.
lotrac
vancouver

cop it.

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Performances:

Shannon Fitzgerald & 'Lawrence Thrasher' / Outside the Box
Lawrence started playing guitar when he was 12 years old. His playing style is inspired be heavy metal bands like Metallica and neo-classical artists including Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. In addition to teaching guitar, he has been working with independent rock bands for the last 15 years as a guitar tech, manager, roadie and sound tech. Although he has been involved in music for many years, he rarely performs live and is looking forward to playing at The Salaam Salon on Dec 28th.

Shannon Fitzgerald graduated from MainDance in 2003. Since then she has been busy with school (alternative healing stuff), work, and performing (mostly dance). She has worked with many cool artists such as, Holy Body Tattoo, Susan Elliot, Daelik, Bruce McCulloch (from Kids in the Hall), and Sean Campbell (Underdog Productions). She is very interested in doing site-specific and multi-disciplinary works. You may have seen her star shine most recently with the ever-famous collective "Society for Public Spontaneity".

Outside the Box (working title) is a site-specific improvisational piece commenting on the limits we put up for ourselves and attempting to break through them, mostly through the mediums of movement and shredding.



Jennifer Clarke / Untitled
Jennifer Clarke is a dance artist, but she's had a writers block for the past 3 months.

I am going to be gathering and assembling you all around so you can tell me a story.



Wa Ha Ha / Crop Circles
wa ha ha is a non-profit group of five dynamic young women on a journey to strengthen the presence of unconventional performance art in our city. wa ha ha is comprised of five women, and sometimes more. But what we always are is a ‘we’. We make decisions based on an intuitive non-system of suggestions, questions, winks, and nudges. We are interested in investigating the very nature of authorship, collaborative practice and cultural production. wa ha ha encourages a dialogue between our work and passers-by hence activating liminal spaces. We hope to titillate and challenge the public with innovative performances.

wa ha ha will distribute 100 wine glasses throughout the audience. The ladies of wa ha ha will move slowly throughout the audience sonically interacting with the players of the wine glasses. The sounds will be chance, random, unpredictable and indeterminate based on the movements of the participants fingers. The dolphins will swim and jump behind us.




Installations:

Travis Jones / It takes a room full…
Travis Jones grew up in a sweltering plethora of spray paint, fat markers and stacks of black books. For this project Travis gets nostalgic about his sticker bombing days and encourages the viewer to interact with his art.

An interactive art display
A visual flip flap book of transformation... with the outcome resting in the hands of its community of creators.



Sgem / Fort
Sgem started her reign early, uniting bands of marauders and thieves, and forging a mighty host that soon lay waste and doom to all that lay in her path; cutting a victorious swath from the land.

Sgem, age twenty-five, took it as a sign from the gods to build a mighty fort to defend her realm, hewn out of the very soft comforts that the conquered left behind.



Marie Horstead / Nest
A textile artist with a background in performance Marie Horstead is based out of her East Vancouver studio. Working primarily in fibers she is currently studying construction techniques such as felt making and basketry as well as surface design, colour theory and tapestry. Preferring to travel by bike she gains inspiration from her immediate surroundings.

Drawing from memelab's textures and colours Nest is based on the concept of nesting and the idea of microhabitat. Nest is made of natural fibers and cloth; hand dyed and found, and uses traditional basketry techniques in its construction.



Michael Undem / Pond
Michael Undem considers the term multidisciplinary to describe his art practice, which includes performance, drawing, photography, installation, sculpture and new media. He is apart of the Balcone Arts Society - www.balcone.org/michael/ - and currently working on a carpentry apprenticeship.

For the Dec 28th, 2006 Salon at memelab, Michael is forming a small concrete floor pond. Please do not pee in it. Thank you.


Julie Gendron / Dedication
Julie Gendron thinks about the now, tries to forget the past and only imagines fun in the future. www.desiringproductions.com

"Dedication" is a video rendition of Nina Simone's song "Tell Me More & More & Then Some"
portraying the media's impressive influence on how we expect to be loved.



In the Orb Gallery:

Liam Wake / Six Studies with Picture and Sound
Liam Wake is a multidisciplinary artist who has been living and working in Vancouver for the last 5 years. Currently, Liam’s work has focused on exploring how current technologies shape and alter the way we perceive our surroundings and how we understand culture.

Six studies with pictures and sound function as collaborative sketches, compositions perceived and recorded at once through the senses of the artist, and the lens, microphone and processor of the camera. The unique spatial characteristics of the Orb Gallery heighten the viewer’s reception of the media on display, illustrating a complex relationship between individuals, technology and our environment.


On the memelab TV lounge:

Jesse Scott / intermissio...

Jesse Scott, aka metre, is the personification of DIY in Vancouver’s homegrown art scene, starting with The Butchershop, NTSC, and progressing to ICAN, the memelab, and the New Forms Festival.

Scott will perform a live edit and submission of their version of an open source film available on the web project www.straycinema.com. Based on the idea of free information, Stray Cinema has set footage free that will be reconfigured by people around the world and then judged by a peer community. "



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Jesse Scott / Mirae Rosner

604.307.8993/778.386.2494
memelab@telus.net
#202 - 1814 pandora st
Lotrac Vancity

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