IdeaAssassins
Edmonton, Alberta
IdeaAssassins Project No. 66 – In a Pool
Performance Summary:
This performance includes water, live bodies and projected online material. This performance will force spectators in real time and space, to situate—and if they choose, implicate—themselves in the event.
Additionally, while the project will center around the proposed live event, we will begin the performance—and relationship with potential audience members— on our blog and on YouTube. During the live event, each participant will receive an artist book multiple which will serve to extend the performance further.
Biography: Cortney Lohnes & Kimberley McLeod
Kimberley McLeod and Cortney Lohnes are both pursuing their MA in Dramatic Theory and Criticism at the University of Alberta. As IdeaAsssassins, they have performed several pieces together, including Please Help Kim, a performance integrating YouTube material and live bodies in a traditional performance space, and theory/theatre: an introduction, which included the installation of a 60-poster provocation campaign in the Fine Arts Building at The University of Alberta. They also write about their work and have presented at international conferences, including the Media in Transition Conference at MIT. Kimberley is also an active director and dramaturg and recently worked on a production of Bashir Lazhar by Evelyne de la Chenelière, which toured Germany and played at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Cortney’s thesis explores the connection between YouTube, performance, and new media scholarship. In performance her research includes the ongoing inter-media experiment titled Drag Queens 2.0.
Artist Statement:
As IdeaAssassins one of our main goals is to engage—via performance—with intersections between theory and practice. All of the theories that we have previously engaged with, and continue to explore are heavily mediated by the notion of water. We seek to both activate and explore contemporary forms of subjectivity, which are inherently fluid and unstable. Fueled by the placement of technology on the body, subjectivity becomes an expanded notion that takes into account and questions the body, the mind, and the tools we use in quotidian existence. This project attempts to perform and problematize these contemporary notions of the subject, and highlight forged connexions, broken binaries, and saturated, hypermediated modes of perception.
Website
http://ideaassassins.wordpress.com
http://youtube.com/user/ideaassassins
Performance Date / Time / Location
Friday September 18th / 10 PM / Scona pool, 10450 72 Avenue, West entrance
Sunday September 20th / 10 PM / Scona pool, 10450 72 Avenue, West entrance