Mountain Standard Time Performative Art

M:ST Performative Art

28/6/19

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AGM + Call for Board Directors

20/6/19

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M:ST has a new website!

12/5/19

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Interview with Mikiki

12/5/19

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Interview with Adriana Disman

M:ST Programming

We are currently working to update our online archive and will soon have complete listings, descriptions, and images from past M:ST events. If you have participated in M:ST 1, M:ST 2, Media Blitz, Space for Space, or any of the other programs mentioned in our section, we would love to hear from you.

Recent
Performances
Biennials
Events
Workshops
Exhibitions
Fundraisers
Special Projects

Relation Making in the Context of Racism and Settler-Colonialism

Workshop
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Saturday, August 3 - Saturday, August 10, 2019
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A free multi-day workshop for artists of all disciplines who identify as Indigenous, Black, or as a Person of Colour, between the ages of 15-35.

Moments After

Special Project
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Launches July 7 - 17, 2019
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Presented in this interactive publication, the M:ST 9 biennial was captured through the documentation of liminal fragments. Launch currently underway.

Not funny, too expensive

Special Project
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Coming soon. The date is March 21 in any year you like. ANG and BUB are hanging out in their “windowless” (there is a window but it opens to reveal the exterior of the neighbouring building) studio.

Homo-Sighting: Consent & Refusal of Queer Performance in Ryan Danny Owen's LOVE ME LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW

Special Project
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Intimate musings on the complexity of performing queer bodies in a comparison of Ryan Danny Owen's performance in M:ST 9, Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow, and William E. Jones' TEAROOM.

M:ST 9 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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September 7 - October 7, 2018
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In an attempt to claim and share our own histories, the M:ST 9 roster of artists question the physical and metaphysical boundaries between body and territory.

Emotion-based Observation Painting

Performance
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Sunday, October 7, 2018 — 12:00pm - 5:00pm
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In the tradition of Impressionist paintings of white Europeans performing leisure activities, the performance imagines this for our ancestors who are no longer alive, as well as those that are.

A rolling [insert land artist surname] gathers no moss

Performance
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Sunday, October 7, 2018 — 11:00 AM – 1:08 PM
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This durational performance places common physical materials used in earthworks in relation to the artists' own physical body.

Whose Body is This?*

Performance
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Saturday, October 7, 2018 — 10:00pm
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Quotidian violence can be classified by its invisibility. The quotidian is such because it is perceived so often that one stops perceiving it.

Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow

Performance
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Saturday, October 6 — 8:00pm
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Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow is a durational lip-syncing performance to the solo record, Mr. Bad Guy by Farrokh Bulsara.

how to make an image

Performance
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Saturday, October 6, 2018 — 8:00pm
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How to make an image is a duet between Eshan Rafi and a six-and-a-half-minute segment of archival video footage dealing with issues of representation.

Something is coming

Performance
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Friday, October 5 — 9:30pm
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Something is coming is a site specific sound performance which listens into the electrical grid.

Not Peaceable and Quiet

Performance
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Friday, October 5, 2018, — 8:30pm
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This research-based performance examines normalized associations be­tween criminality and sound.

Herd

Performance
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Friday, October 5, 2018 — 7:00pm
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Jeneen Frei Njootli’s performance turns an ear to caribou antlers sounding the transmis­sion of embedded and layered ancestral knowledge.

Relaxing into Relation

Performance
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Friday, October 5, 2018 — 12:00pm - 2:30pm | Sunday, October 7, 2018 — 4:00pm - 6:30pm
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An individual and collective performative experiment: physiological relaxation as a basis for a conversation.

Something, Somewhere

Performance
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 9:00pm
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In 2013, a long-buried and relatively obscure village was uncovered in a remote region of the Mediterranean. Researchers slowly unearthed increasingly bizarre artifacts and architecture.

Release Stress & Feel Amazing in 30 Minutes

Performance
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 7:30pm
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Performance by Jamie McDonald + Signy Holm as part of the Rita McKeough: Works - Publication Launch Event

Let them believe in themselves

Performance
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 7:20pm
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Performance by NIK as part of the Rita McKeough: Works - Publication Launch Event

and when it floods in

Performance
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 7:10pm
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Performance by Toni Cormier as part of the Rita McKeough: Works - Publication Launch Event

Rita McKeough: Works Soft Launch

Event
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Wednesday, October 4, 2018 — Doors at 6:00pm
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Join us to celebrate the launch of our new publication celebrating the career of prolific Calgary artist Rita McKeough.

Disclosure Cookbook

Performance
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 — 5:00pm – 8:30pm | Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 5:00pm – 8:30pm
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Disclosure Cookbook is a conversation­al culinary experience bringing HIV positive people together over a lavish meal to discuss disclosing HIV status

possible performance

Performance
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 — 7:00pm | Friday, October 5, 2018 — 3:00pm | Saturday, October 6, 2018 — 3:00pm
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A collectively authoured participatory performance and workshop. The public is invited to perform a score that takes place in a set.

Performative Art Symposium: Tempaurality

Event
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 — 1:30 pm - 6:00pm
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A series of two panels - "Listening Awry" and "wnoondwaamin | we hear them" - by M:ST 9 artists and wnoondwaamin | we hear them exhibition artists.

ARENA: DUAL NATURE

Performance
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 — 9:00pm
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Magnus Tiesenhausen and Kylie Ward will take reprieve from the waking life in a disused riding arena just outside of Calgary city limits.

Ideational Apraxia

Performance
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 — 8:00pm
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Ideational Apraxia borrows everyday household implements and the contents of a femme purse, dis­covering and diverting the domestic system implied by these objects.
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Emotion-based Observation Painting

Performance
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Sunday, October 7, 2018 — 12:00pm - 5:00pm
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In the tradition of Impressionist paintings of white Europeans performing leisure activities, the performance imagines this for our ancestors who are no longer alive, as well as those that are.

A rolling [insert land artist surname] gathers no moss

Performance
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Sunday, October 7, 2018 — 11:00 AM – 1:08 PM
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This durational performance places common physical materials used in earthworks in relation to the artists' own physical body.

Whose Body is This?*

Performance
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Saturday, October 7, 2018 — 10:00pm
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Quotidian violence can be classified by its invisibility. The quotidian is such because it is perceived so often that one stops perceiving it.

Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow

Performance
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Saturday, October 6 — 8:00pm
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Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow is a durational lip-syncing performance to the solo record, Mr. Bad Guy by Farrokh Bulsara.

how to make an image

Performance
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Saturday, October 6, 2018 — 8:00pm
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How to make an image is a duet between Eshan Rafi and a six-and-a-half-minute segment of archival video footage dealing with issues of representation.

Something is coming

Performance
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Friday, October 5 — 9:30pm
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Something is coming is a site specific sound performance which listens into the electrical grid.

Not Peaceable and Quiet

Performance
—
Friday, October 5, 2018, — 8:30pm
—
This research-based performance examines normalized associations be­tween criminality and sound.

Herd

Performance
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Friday, October 5, 2018 — 7:00pm
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Jeneen Frei Njootli’s performance turns an ear to caribou antlers sounding the transmis­sion of embedded and layered ancestral knowledge.

Relaxing into Relation

Performance
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Friday, October 5, 2018 — 12:00pm - 2:30pm | Sunday, October 7, 2018 — 4:00pm - 6:30pm
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An individual and collective performative experiment: physiological relaxation as a basis for a conversation.

Something, Somewhere

Performance
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 9:00pm
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In 2013, a long-buried and relatively obscure village was uncovered in a remote region of the Mediterranean. Researchers slowly unearthed increasingly bizarre artifacts and architecture.

Release Stress & Feel Amazing in 30 Minutes

Performance
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 7:30pm
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Performance by Jamie McDonald + Signy Holm as part of the Rita McKeough: Works - Publication Launch Event

Let them believe in themselves

Performance
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 7:20pm
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Performance by NIK as part of the Rita McKeough: Works - Publication Launch Event

and when it floods in

Performance
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 7:10pm
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Performance by Toni Cormier as part of the Rita McKeough: Works - Publication Launch Event

Disclosure Cookbook

Performance
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 — 5:00pm – 8:30pm | Thursday, October 4, 2018 — 5:00pm – 8:30pm
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Disclosure Cookbook is a conversation­al culinary experience bringing HIV positive people together over a lavish meal to discuss disclosing HIV status

possible performance

Performance
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 — 7:00pm | Friday, October 5, 2018 — 3:00pm | Saturday, October 6, 2018 — 3:00pm
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A collectively authoured participatory performance and workshop. The public is invited to perform a score that takes place in a set.

ARENA: DUAL NATURE

Performance
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 — 9:00pm
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Magnus Tiesenhausen and Kylie Ward will take reprieve from the waking life in a disused riding arena just outside of Calgary city limits.

Ideational Apraxia

Performance
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 — 8:00pm
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Ideational Apraxia borrows everyday household implements and the contents of a femme purse, dis­covering and diverting the domestic system implied by these objects.

Writing for building

Performance
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Multiple Times
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Writing for building invites the public to write and share a text addressed to a building of social or historical significance.

Paydirt

Performance
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August 1 - 31, 2017 | Report on Sunday, August 20, 2017 — 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Paydirt is a call for crowdsourcing under-the-radar info on extractive industries.

Orphan Well Adoption Agency

Performance
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017 — 7:00pm – 10:00 pm.
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The OWAA is dedicated to finding “forever homes” for abandoned oil wells through symbolic adoptions.

We Lost Half the Forest and the Rest Will Burn This Summer

Performance
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Saturday, July 8, 2017 — 7:00pm
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A 16-song work recounting the ever-cycling decay of a desert drought from the view of its flora and fauna. Trumpets, bass drums, strings, piano and voices dirge through the only path to the end.

Buffalo Boy’s Stampede Tick and Slap

Performance
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Friday, July 7, 2017 — 1:30pm - 7:00pm
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Come join the fun, march to a de-colonial tune, celebrate yourself and come tickle, slap and dance your colonial blues away!

sum of the parts: what can be named

Performance
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Friday, July 7, 2017 - Saturday, August 26, 2017 — 12:00pm - 6:00pm Daily
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A twenty minute performed oral history that recounts the disremembered journey of the Bowen family from its earliest documented history in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia in 1815.

Ejideh: Push it!

Performance
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Performance: Thursday, June 22, 2017 — 7:30pm.
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Ejideh: Push it! is a moose hide that interrupts space through Indigenous construction and reverberations. When installed and touched, it becomes a decolonial instrument for resonating the Land.
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M:ST 9 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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September 7 - October 7, 2018
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In an attempt to claim and share our own histories, the M:ST 9 roster of artists question the physical and metaphysical boundaries between body and territory.

M:ST 8 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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October 1 - October 26, 2016
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Over the coming weeks, the generous labour of these coalescing energies will generate many points of intersection, creating spaces of exchange and contestation.

M:ST 7 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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September 26 – October 11, 2014
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Now in its seventh edition, M:ST celebrates innovative and critically engaged performative art in the southern Alberta region.

M:ST 6 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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October 15 - 27, 2012
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For M:ST 6, the invited local, national and international performative artists take the definition of performative art in wildly different directions.

M:ST 5 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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October 8 - 22, 2010
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Building on an incredible history of collaboration, innovation, and community support, the M:ST 5 Festival will bring two weeks of cutting-edge performative art to Calgary.

M:ST 4 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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October 3 - 17, 2008
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We invite you to join us for the fourth installment of the M:ST Performative Art Festival. Building on an incredible history of collaboration, innovation, and community support, the M:ST 4.

M:ST 3 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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October 7 - October 31, 2005
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The 2005 Mountain Standard Time 3 festival will present the works of 31 local, national and international artists in 18 programmed events in the communities of Banff. Calgary, and Lethbridge.

M:ST 2 Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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April 2 - 17, 2003
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The primary objective of M:ST 2 is to program original, diverse, enter­taining, and thought-provoking performative works.

M:ST Performative Art Biennial

Biennial
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April 6 - 28, 2001
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If you’ve never experienced performative art first-hand, you’re in for a full month’s worth of exceptional opportunities.

Rita McKeough: Works Soft Launch

Event
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Wednesday, October 4, 2018 — Doors at 6:00pm
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Join us to celebrate the launch of our new publication celebrating the career of prolific Calgary artist Rita McKeough.

Performative Art Symposium: Tempaurality

Event
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 — 1:30 pm - 6:00pm
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A series of two panels - "Listening Awry" and "wnoondwaamin | we hear them" - by M:ST 9 artists and wnoondwaamin | we hear them exhibition artists.

Life of a Craphead Artist Talk

Event
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 — 7:00pm
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"If I hear another filmmaker say ‘I’m just trying to tell a good story’ I will shave my head”: A talk about DIY filmmaking

Event
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Friday, September 28, 2018 —10:00am – 11:30am
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Life of a Craphead will talk about their relationship to movies. This includes watching a lot of them, through their specific lenses of race, gender, and class.

The 7th Sense Book Launch

Event
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Saturday, October 14, 2017 — 3:00pm - 5:00pm.
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Book launch and signing accompanied by a live reading from the authors for the publication 7th Sense.

New Fears

Event
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Wednesday, Dec 31, 2014 — 9:00pm
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Join us for a karaoke party Featuring HOLY JACKAL and Ryan Scott. Admission by donation.

SPANE: Threshold

Event
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014 — 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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The fourth iteration of the Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment (SPANE) features a diverse mix of performance-based videos.

Art’s Birthday 2014

Event
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Friday, January 17, 2014 — 7:00pm - 10:00pm
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M:ST, together with EMMEDIA, LIDS, FUSE Magazine and Frosst Books celebrates the 1,000,051 birthday of Art!

Moustache: Performing Masculinity

Event
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 — 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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This panel is dedicated to the memory of Jasmine Valentina.

Performing Cultural Transformation

Event
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 — 2:00pm - 5:00pm
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Panel discussion moderated by David Plouffe.

Panel — Performative Art & Documentation

Event
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 — 7:00pm
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A moderated this panel with performative artists that have a long-standing trajectory in the field and are seen by their peers and the community as leaders and innovators.

This is How we do it: Performing Craftiness

Event
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Sunday, October 10, 2010 — 1:30pm
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A moderated panel, bringing together Craft Off artists to discuss the intersections of contemporary craft and performance art practices in light of their projects for the M:ST Festival.

True Love is Riding Bikes

Event
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Saturday, July 18, 2009 — 1:30pm
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In the months of June and July 2009, the Tender Mountain Clan will be actively installing, recording, and mapping street art in the city of Calgary.

Event Architecture: Administration as Artistic Practice

Event
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 — 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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This panel brings together several of the artists part of the M:ST 4 Event Architecture Series to discuss the ways that they have used administrative strategies to develop their practices.

New Practices: Performance on the Edge

Event
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Friday, January 5, 2007 — 1:30pm - 3:30pm
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This panel examined elements of performance and performativity in relation to risk-taking and innovation, novel technologies, and more.

Technologies and Bodies: Performative Spaces

Event
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Saturday, October 22, 2005 — 1:00pm
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Witnessing: Locating Audience, Art, and Performance

Event
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 — 12:00pm
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Costume Based Performance Art and the Politics of Representation

Event
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Saturday, October 8, 2005 — 2:00pm
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Grand Action

Event
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October 23 - 24, 2004
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Grand Action is a three-day seminar event that included studio visits, a public Grand Action Panel Discussion, and Community Party and Networking Session.

Endangered Species: Performativity and the Displacement of Norms

Event
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Saturday, April 12, 2003 — 3:30pm
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This panel discussion explores the idea that performativity can be seen as a process, how the body is gendered through the repetitive enactment of societal markers, and more.

Socially (Sub)Conscious: Effects of the Performance Artist in Public Places

Event
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Wednesday, April 9, 2003 — 7:00pm
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This panel will focus on the meanings created by the dynamics between artist and audience, strategies artists use to manage conflict, and more.

Technological Advances for New Media Artists

Event
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Friday, April 6, 2001 — 12:00pm
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The School of Panamerican Unrest

Event
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This project invited local artists and public audiences to engage in various forms of dialogue about social, political, and cultural issues affecting the various regions of the Americas.

Relation Making in the Context of Racism and Settler-Colonialism

Workshop
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Saturday, August 3 - Saturday, August 10, 2019
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A free multi-day workshop for artists of all disciplines who identify as Indigenous, Black, or as a Person of Colour, between the ages of 15-35.

SEARCH ENGINES: One does not know exactly what one does not know

Workshop
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September 28 - 30, 2018
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We invite art makers and researchers of all disciplines to engage in a performance workshop process.

Night School: A public collaborative workshop initiative

Workshop
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016 — 8:00pm.
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Night School is an emerging initiative from M:ST to facilitate the origination of new performative art making methodologies.

Performance Art Presenters Retreat

Workshop
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Tuesday October 25, 2016 | Wednesday October 26, 2016 — 10:00am – 12:30pm Daily.
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This ground-breaking retreat assembles representatives of organizations, each dedicated to the promotion and exhibition of performance art across Canada.

Infiltrating and Relational Practice in Public Space Workshop

Workshop
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 – Friday, October 21, 2016 — 10:00am – 6:00pm Daily.
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This workshop will introduce participants to what is involved in the creation of a live action piece as related to infiltrating or intervention practices that take place in public spaces.

Workshop: Performative Strategies in Contemporary Art

Workshop
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Monday, October 6, 2014 - Thursday, October 9, 2014 — 11:00am - 5:00pm
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This workshop aims to re-think the basic elements of Performance Art and experiment with performativity in a wider sense and applied to different art practices.

Remote Collaboration: exchange and co-authorship across distance and discipline

Workshop
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Sunday, October 5, 2014 — 11:00am - 5:00pm
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This workshop is designed for artists interested in working across distances and borders both literal and conceptual and artists collaborating across discipline or cultural affiliation.

M:ST Performance Master Class – Wanted Dead or Alive: Performance Art

Workshop
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
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This class will be a daylong event filled with theory, discussion and action. It is an opportunity to reflect on your practice, what’s happening today and create space for impromptu actions.

Wayward Objects Performance Workshop by Rita McKeough

Workshop
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Monday, February 17, 2014 - Friday, February 21, 2014
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This workshop offers theoretical and practical explorations of performance art with a focus on our interactions with everyday objects by integrating sound, images, and performative processes.

Art Action Workshop

Workshop
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - Thursday, September 26, 2013
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M:ST is pleased to offer a 3-day intensive performance workshop with Richard Martel (Quebec City), open to performers and artists of all backgrounds.

Performance Master Class Workshop

Workshop
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Saturday, October 20, 2012 — 10:00am - 5:00pm
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M:ST 6's Performance art workshop, hosted by Pauline Cummins.

MUTOPIA

Workshop
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Monday, October 15, 2012 - Saturday, October 20, 2012 — 12:00pm - 5:00pm
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Aligned with the IMAA national conference at The Banff Centre, John Grzinich will facilitate MUTOPIA, a workshop that explores collaboration, collective creativity and open forms of authorship.

Contemporary Indigenous Performance Art — Where it’s Been, Where it’s At & Where it’s Going…

Workshop
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Monday, October 15, 2012 - Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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Making Way presents complementary workshops by Adrian Stimson and Rebecca Belmore that engages participants in critical discourse on contemporary Indigenous performance art theory and praxis.

Bike Hack + Soundride Workshop

Workshop
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 — 7:00pm
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A collaborative workshop and mobile sound performance that enables participants to contribute to the acoustic ecology of the city through simple sonic experimentation.

Student Workshop and Performances

Workshop
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Thursday, October 9, 2008 — 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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This workshop will provide students from the Alberta University of the Arts the opportunity to work with renowned multidisciplinary artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle.

Virtual Bodies

Workshop
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Monday, October 17, 2005 - Friday, October 28, 2005
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The Virtual Bodies workshop is aimed at exploring different strategies for situating the body in performance within technologised spaces.

PAS #24: themomentwhenanappleistooheavyandhastofalldowntotheground

Workshop
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M:ST presents PAS — Performance Art Studies (Germany), a professional studio that is offering intensive studies to young artists, art students and other interested people in Performance Art

TouVA Collective Workshop

Workshop
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M:ST Presents a workshop by TouVA collective through a gradual yet intensive learning process to introduce participants to what is involved in the creation of a live action.

Urban Habitat Laboratory: Sustainability Workshops

Workshop
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Kelly Jaclynn Andres presents the workshops: Sucker for a Syphon, Closet Gardener, Guilt-Free Geek, and Very Seedy Neighborhood.

Entertaining Every Second

Exhibition
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Friday, September 7, 2018 — 7:00pm
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Entertaining Every Second is a new body of performance and sculptural work by Life of a Craphead that engages with experiences and representations western imperialism in Asia.

WILD: Fabricating a Frontier

Exhibition
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Festival: July 7 – 15, 2017 | Exhibition: July 7 – August 26, 2017 | Reception: Friday, July 7, 5:00 PM at the Globe Cinema (18+)
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Exploring the affectations of settler colonial romanticism and its persistence in performances of the “Wild West”, this project troubles settler hegemonies and offers alternative practices of wildness

A Woman Walking (The City Limits)

Exhibition
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Sunday, October 23, 2016 | Tuesday, October 25, 2016 — 12:00pm – 6:00pm Daily
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For M:ST 8, Bartol has created a walking project to trace the limits of the City of Calgary on foot, covering a distance of over 174 km.

Performagraphic

Exhibition
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Saturday, October 22, 2016 — Saturday, November 26, 2016.
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With humor and irony Luna's works transform the gallery space into a battlefield where the audience is confronted with the nature of cultural identity and the tensions generated by cultural isolation.

Performers + Performing Grounds

Exhibition
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Friday, October 21, 2016 – Wednesday, October 26, 2016 — 11:00am – 5:00pm Daily.
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Patrick Morarescu will present a two-channel photo installation. The juxtaposition of these works will create random and accidental pairings, enabling viewers to conjure their own associations.

Opera for a Small Room

Exhibition
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Saturday, October 1, 2016 — Sunday, November 20, 2016
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This meticulously orchestrated audio-visual installation offers an uncanny world rife with narrative and opportunities to explore.

THE IMPOSSIBLE BLUE ROSE

Exhibition
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Saturday, October 1, 2016 — Sunday, November 20, 2016.
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Lipton brings together the nine chapters of her film and performance opus THE IMPOSSIBLE BLUE ROSE. The project is the culmination of video, theatre, dance, poetry, sculpture, and more.

Wake Up!

Exhibition
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Saturday, October 8, 2016 — Wednesday, November 30, 2016
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Jessie Short's 2015 film, Wake Up! , is an exploration of her identity as a Métis woman. The work addresses the absence of Métis people from larger conversations about Indigenous visual culture.

The Illingworth Kerr Gallery presents: Performing the Landscape

Exhibition
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Thursday, September 22, 2016 — Saturday, November 12, 2016
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Performing the Landscape proposes to look at new ideas of landscape through the lens of contemporary art, in particular, the moving image.

The Videos of Kenneth Doren

Exhibition
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014 — 7:00pm - 11:00pm
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Presented post-humously in honour of Kenny Doren, through the support of The National Music Centre.

Vardøgr

Exhibition
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Thursday, October 2, 2014 - Saturday, October 10, 2014
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In a network-centric techno-society shaped by privatized surveillance and ubiquitous computing, how do we, as individual human beings, define ourselves?

The Lion’s Share

Exhibition
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Friday, September 26, 2014 - Saturday, October 11, 2014
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This exhibition highlights the contradictions and anxieties around choosing what is acceptable as food and what is not; McKeough’s humour makes it possible to get close to these difficult concepts.

The Missing Body: performance in the absence of the artist

Exhibition
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Friday, June 27, 2014 - Sunday, September 7, 2014
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An exhibition centred on the body and identity in ways that can be conceptualized as performance art, even though the artist’s body is not visibly present in the work.

WORK FROM NOWHERE WORK FOR NO ONE

Exhibition
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Friday, October 26, 2012 - Friday, November 23, 2012
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A gigantically negative act that rejects crafting traditions, or a positive gesture that inaugurates and invites people into a new craft guild of fuck-ups, mischief makers, and badasses.‍

Where Where There There

Exhibition
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Friday, October 26, 2012 - Friday, November 23, 2012
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A video installation based on Gertrude Stein’s play Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, incorporating traces of the original text interwoven with other found “texts”.

Between One and Another

Exhibition
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Monday, October 15, 2012 - Monday, November 5, 2012
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This exhibition gathers key works selected from over 30 years of art production, including significant statements on evolving issues on body politics through that time period.

The Shoe Collection of Hortense Muriel Walker and The Other

Exhibition
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Friday, October 12, 2012 - Saturday, November 10, 2012
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Burns explores what makes up identity, how identity changes and evolves, and how her own identity influences that of her fictional ‘other.’

Performing War Art

Exhibition
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Sunday, October 17, 2010 — 2:00pm
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Artwork by Dick Averns from his deployment to the Middle East with Canadian peacekeeping troops. The exhibition contains photographs, sculpture, video and text portrayals of his experiences.

Duet

Exhibition
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Thursday, October 7, 2010 - Thursday, November 11, 2010
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A performer echos the movements of Hassam Abdo, a young Palestinian boy stopped at an Israeli army checkpoint with a bomb attached to his body.

The Invisible Bike

Exhibition
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June 2009 - August 2009
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A bicycle covered with mirrors of various shapes, assuming the silhouette of a bicycle, this specular object comes to reflect the people, the architecture and the scenery passing.

The Final Frontier

Exhibition
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Monday, October 13, 2008 - Friday, October 17, 2008
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The Final Frontier puts a Canadian spin on Afrofuturism, a movement that mixes digital culture and history to posit alternative futures reflecting the black experience.

Art Snob Solution Phase 2: The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Exhibition
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Friday, October 10, 2008 - Saturday, November 8, 2008
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An exhibition of ambiguous objects, images, videos and sounds that evoke a love for and a satirizing of both the ambitions of Modern Art History and the DIY ethos of folk and lo-fi indie music.

David Zack: Wizard!? Perturber!? Possessed! Letters and other works of a correspondence artist, 1938–1995

Exhibition
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Friday, October 10, 2018 - Saturday, November 8, 2008
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The New Gallery is pleased to present a major retrospective of the work of David Zack. Curated by the artist’s longtime colleague and collaborator Istvan Kantor.

Old Sun

Exhibition
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Friday, October 10, 2008 - Saturday, November 8, 2008
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A new exhibition of installations in which Adrian Stimson explores identity, history, and transcendence through the reconfiguration of fragments culled from the Chief Old Sun Residential School.
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HOT OIL

Fundraiser
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Thursday, July 27, 2017 — 7:00pm – 10:00pm | Sunday, August 20, 2017 — 2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Artists, Alana Bartol and Maggie Flynn will perform in their respective cities, fields, and studios to raise funds in support of Mountain Standard Time as well as their own artistic practices.

Spring Runoff 2016

Fundraiser
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Saturday, April 23, 2016 — 7:30pm - Midnight
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From April 23-30th, M:ST is presenting our second annual performative art fundraiser, Spring Runoff.

Spring Runoff 2015

Fundraiser
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Saturday, May 23, 2015 - Saturday, June 13, 2015
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Spring Runoff is an annual local and international performance art fundraiser. Donors had the opportunity to donate to performing artists in return for exclusive performance paraphernalia.

Moments After

Special Project
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Launches July 7 - 17, 2019
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Presented in this interactive publication, the M:ST 9 biennial was captured through the documentation of liminal fragments. Launch currently underway.

Not funny, too expensive

Special Project
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Coming soon. The date is March 21 in any year you like. ANG and BUB are hanging out in their “windowless” (there is a window but it opens to reveal the exterior of the neighbouring building) studio.

Homo-Sighting: Consent & Refusal of Queer Performance in Ryan Danny Owen's LOVE ME LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW

Special Project
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Intimate musings on the complexity of performing queer bodies in a comparison of Ryan Danny Owen's performance in M:ST 9, Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow, and William E. Jones' TEAROOM.

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