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Another moment from last year at the rRemai mModern. We stood in a moment of meditative silence watching a window curtain flapping the breeze Michael Snow's Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids)  ... threw red balls BODY FLUID BLOOD by Puppies Puppies ( Jade Kuriki Olivo ) conceptual, performance and installation artist ... reflected on light gazing at Marie Lannoo's See Nothing, See Everything #6 ... ::Note:: ... video by colleague Gabe Penna ... a warm hearted, passionate educator ...

... the most provocative times during class world theatre 'scenework' are those moments where students dance into the imaginative sphere ... that is while witnessing a scene I experience a particular habitation ... ... the acting partners within a space establish a place & in exploring the territory generate a zone to create a sphere so moving I abandon 'self' to be exiled & then occupied into a cohabitation of the sphere ... i cease watching ... the scene stops playing ... we communion ... ... this occurred during Nox by Anne Carson ... the elegy for her brother had, as Eugenio Barba in answering What is theatre? , " a particular way of moving our shared inner universe towards the world of the tangible event " ... the tangible event of the loss of my sister ... :: note :: ... "and then your creative juices flow and you see that her elegy is meant to force us all to write." - Raymond L. Bianchi ... carson always demands a creative written ...

Wegman :: note :: ... walking by the river encountered a jogger with dog ... the innocent eyes & curious gaze captivated me ... " Wish I were a dog", I exclaimed ... partner responded "You are - You are!" ... finally found myself ...

... imagine my surprise when out of the blue artist Chris Ashley offered to ship a work simply as an act of gratitude for my following his html pieces throughout the years ... asked if i had a request & shocked i replied whatever comes will be appreciated ... ... we don't "know" each other ... have never met ... a sporadic network connection at best ... the last few days he posted another of his gifts hanging ... here's where mine hangs ... above my computer work station flanked by my sons piece done at age 11 ... the reflected light line seems appropriate (to me) ... his recent work may be viewed at David Cunningham Projects in San Francisco & his most recent recent work may be viewed each day on his blog Look, See which links & reviews other work as well ... the last month has been particularly stunning as the daily practice demands & challenges both form & impulse ... daily looking means to see & to see I have discovered is to ...

reading of the mythtime "... the wild time ... mythtime surrounds historical time the way the forest and the ocean and the sky surround a village ... the mythtime is self-sustaining, alive and independent of human control ... myth is a richly complex piece of knowledge, like a theorem or a language or a genome: an inheritance too precious to be left, like a trademark or a patented procedure, in the realm of the privately owned ... the mythtime covers for a timeless moment, a familiar human space ..." ( Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas ) - See: Terms Artists First Nation :: note :: ... Robert Bringhurst ... Animal and the Human ... we were told ...

The eVOCative Crow Hop at the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company ended with the traditional round dance ... all performers, staff, attending poets, conference organizers, volunteers, supporters & audience linked hand in hand ... the center empty a birthing womb ... just a couple of hours before Joseph Naytowhow had drummed the space awake with a morning song, cleansed the ear with flute breath love and jigged joy energy to welcome all the relations this summer solstice on National Aboriginal Day in honour of "the broad range of contemporary Aboriginal oralities from storytelling and song to poetry, spoken word, and hip hop" (program notes) ... Marie Campbell , reading from her in-progress work, honoured Metis women. Her understated, quiet voice, warm from a story told in Cree about a priest and a women, held authority and reverence but most importantly the words were testaments to women history had unwitnessed. the mixed bloodlines of families, our tribe, our elder...

a wonderful eclectic evening in the Oak Room of The Park Town -- eVOCative Performance Cabaret ... the program reads: "The eVOCative cabaret brings to our stage five innovative, politically-engaged & dynamic writers and performers. These artists are influenced by, and follow in, a broad range of traditions from sound poetics and dub to feminist performance art, dramatic monologue, and experimental language poetics - all to remarkable effect. There is no way to encounter the surprising and fluid relationships between oral and written poetries than by experiencing the work of artists like bill bissett, Adeena Karasick, Catherine Kidd, Kaie Kellough and d'bi.young.anitaafrika, and I am so thrilled they are all part of this festival and conference. It's going to be a fabulous , fun night!" ( T.L. Cowan, curator ) Cowan , an international writer/performer herself, served up this delectable feast. Cheekily in a blond wig like something hot off an Entertainment Tonight...

... attended Public Lecture Dr. Jayne Wark Conceptual Art in Canada: Histories, Geographies and Debates : a lecture offered in tandem with the Mendel's exhibition of Iain Baxter& ... talk described three Canadian conceptual art workers: General Idea , N.E. Thing Co. and NSCAD ... honoured the influence of McLuhan ... explored the interrogations/anti-visual language/idea machine & viral aspects of conceptual art + the methodologies of art production/commodification/capitalism ... lecture was accompanied by a powerpoint slideshow ... concluded with a challenge to "tone up" ... a metaphor to critically examine the historical revisionism surrounding conceptual art, to correct the much neglected documentation of canadian conceptual art and finally how "conceptual art continues to define Canadian contemporary art, and its legacy is being mined by the young artists of today." ... - See: Artists :: note :: ... thanks for the solid intro both dense and cl...

Light fascinates me in all its manifestations. I study, experiment, discover, and try to give form to light and set it into motion." (Werner Bauer) - See: Artists :: note :: ... i love the light ... summer evenings bath the temple space golden ... the worst about linking to gallery feeds is the subsequent linkrot ...

( via LookSee ) - See: Image Artist :: note :: ... this is a work that might fit into SL ... able to fly around & even into ...

"... There's this attitude out there that only native actors can play native roles. But acting - the verb "to act" - means to pretend to be who you are not, so I don't believe in that idea that you have to be a native to play one. Look at [playwright] Morris Panych - and I don't want to say a word against him, because I adore the man - but what if someone were to come up to him and say, "You're only allowed to work with Polish actors?" He wouldn't have much of a career. If someone were to go up to Atom Egoyan and say, "You can work only with Armenian actors," his career would die tomorrow. There's a very real danger of that happening with native writers. And the older I get, the less interested I become in immersing myself in that problem." ( Journey man The nomadic Tomson Highway talks about writing the first Cree opera By Martin Morrow, CBCNews.ca ) - See: Artists - See: Theater :: note :: ... certainly not a ne...

- See: Image Gallery Artists :: note :: ... entered the Ten Cubed Gallery to visit the works of Chris Ashley ... although love the idea of Second Life the virtual gallery fails to create or enrich ... launched by the real world gallery Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists the traditional web pages give all of the works more vibrancy ... second life feels very secondary ... granted there is the walking a gallery & a spatial effect ... perhaps i need more practice and better equipment ... still second life with the ability to fly and teleport demands fresh new ways of viewing ... would love to fly around works ...

"All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them." ( Cormac McCarthy. The Road. 74 ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... end of delayed term ... redemptive ceremonies must be reenacted even with passion gone ... huge sense of futility ... so be it ...

"Tiravanija is a Potlatch-Conceptualist. The Native American potlatch is a banquet lasting several days, given by a member of the tribe: artistically speaking, that's what Tiravanija does for his art-world tribe. He cooks, you come; he gives, you take. The word potlatch means "big feed," hence Tiravanija is a "feeder." In the dialect of the Northwest Haida tribe, potlatch also means "killing wealth"; in other words, to give something for free is to undemline wealth. Tiravanija seems to suggest that as wealth is accumulated, fewer and fewer people can enjoy it. To buy means to strike a deal. Things are clearly understood--a stasis occurs. A gift is different. A gift is more mysterious than property. The weight of a gift continually shifts from giver to receiver, creating reciprocal obligations. A gift also involves an emanation of Eros." ( A short history of Rirkrit Tiravanija - Thai artist who cooks meals as installation art Art in America, ...

(Kathryn Green from Recreated exhibition ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... the urge to look out this year ...

"I love this exhibition. It shows how juxtaposition and instinct and a freewheeling approach can make for curatorial brilliance, when passion rather than cold logic fires the selection. "I experimented with sounds that make the listener feel loved," said Wilson of Pet Sounds. That is how this show makes you feel." ( guadian unlimited arts| Still waters run deep ) - See: Image :: note :: ... the principle instinct & passion practised with diligence & imagination takes work & transforms the work into play opening into an intelligence of feeling ... that's what I think ... accessing instinct & passion requires a complex bundle of energy, excitement, enthusiasm with precise impulse following associations & abandon ... it demands being treacherous in safe places ...

- See: Artist :: note :: ... so much to see ... hidden archives ... infinights ...

"You can't step twice into the same river, wrote Heracleitus, "for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you." Memories, images, and written words preserve only the residue." ( Village Voice | Dance | Vanishing Acts by Deborah Jowitt ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... review of Meredith Monk's music-theater work Impermanence ... the words of Heracleitus continually haunt ... as the term ends for my high school students the strong undercurrents stir the riverbed deposits deep ... saw monk in venice (the travelogue series) decades ago at the beginnings of my travels ... so much to be open to i thought & still think ...

Gustin House is pleased to announce the 2007 Recital Series! Soprano Ileana Montalbetti, and pianist Kathleen Lohrenz Gable perform songs and arias by Bellini, Berlioz, Puccini, Richard Strauss and others. Friday, January 5, 7:30 p.m., Grace-Westminster United Church, Saskatoon. - See: Artist :: note :: ... be splendid & fine ...

"But they also wake you up, sharpening your perceptions, making you alert to composition and contradiction, to their spatial anomalies. Again, like characters, they are filled with deception. You might think of them as snares or traps. One glimpses things hidden just under the surface, traces of things buried under the skin." ( Is anyone there? ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... there is an incredible connection between the arts which is rarely explored ...