Performances
FATHERMOTHER*
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Betty Pomerleau
On May 26, 2022 at 7 pm
Facebook event
Free admission
FATHERMOTHER
FATHERMOTHER (Kezia Waters & Jordan Brown) think through love as both ethics and void. Balancing ever-expanding movement with safety and futurity, radical trust helps the performers negotiate their love for each other whilst continuously integrating the outside world within the relationship. Exploring the collapse of space and time offered by an intimate moment they navigate through simultaneous sites — the Black church of their ancestors, a concept of home, and the architecture of their own bodies — relying on sensation as direction.
Jordan Brown is an artist and researcher who combines textiles, performance, and video. He explores the communicative power of the body as it converses with itself and its environment, grappling with the persona and the performative to articulate its embedded sensual knowledge. He will complete an MFA in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023.
Kezia Waters is an artist from what they like to call the “Deep South.” They are an MFA Performance student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, hold an MFA in Acting from Ohio University and are a member of Suspended Culture, a Chicago-based group of Black-identifying artists. Growing up in the Black Pentecostal Church tradition, their work tries to locate that which is holy, whole, holistic and/or holds within Black and Queer functionality.
Betty Pomerleau
In this performance, Betty Pomerleau explores the question of self-alienation arising from the contemporary production of images. She revisits visual representations that absorbed and marked her. By reenacting a body-to-body contact with their surface, she tries to make their structure visible. She attempts to break them down through a written, choreographed and pictorial process. Transformed by this gesture, the images then reveal themselves as images. Pomerleau is thus trying to reclaim and recover her agency towards them.
Betty Pomerleau's work focuses on ideological manifestations in language as a space of power. She is particularly interested in the influence that media platforms have in the framing and transformation of bodies and subjectivities. She is presently based between Montreal and Paris, where she is pursuing a master's degree at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.
Exhibition
proximity · pleasure · plasticity
looking at performance
From April 21 to June 23, 2022
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Dazibao thanks the artists for their generous collaboration as well as its advisory programming committee for its support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that we are located on unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá: ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples.