Lori Weidenhammer
Festival Animator
Vancouver, British Columbia
Each year Visualeyez invites a Festival Animator to help contextualize the diverse performances in the festival. Part reportage, part analysis, and part commentary, the Animator blogs daily on performances and other thoughts that help provide a point of entry into the work. Visualeyez also has an expanding audience outside of the greater Edmonton region and the Animator plays an important role in helping connect these non-geographical audiences to the work presented at the festival.
Visualeyez Blog Site:
http://visualeyez2009.blogspot.com
Closing Night Performance:
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Biography:
Lori Weidenhammer is a Vancouver performance-based interdisciplinary artist originally from Saskatchewan. For the past three years she has been appearing as the persona Madame Beespeaker on a regular basis, i.e. at the Regina Folkfest (Neutral Ground), Visualeyez (Latitude 53), Van Dusen Botanical Gardens (Second Site), and UBC Farm. Her collaborative media works with Peter Courtemanche have been shown in Canada and abroad, including Divining for Lost Sound (Bregenz, Austria), Brain Dress (Grunt Gallery, Vancouver) The Haunted Crinoline (The Dunlop Gallery, Regina), and The Laughing Dress (Video Pool, Winnipeg). She is one of members of a group of Vancouver community artists in The Means of Production Artists’ Raw Resource Collective (MOPARRC). a food security volunteer and activist Weidenhammer works with students of all ages on identifying native plants, eating locally, gardening for pollinators (i.e. honeybees), and guerilla gardening. She is passionate about art that that transforms the relationship between the artist and the viewer and creates community bonds.
Website:
http://beespeakersaijiki.blogspot.com
Performance Date / Time / Location:
Monday September 21st/ 7pm / Latitude 53, 10248 106 street.