[Candrama] PuSh Festival Critical Ideas Series 2019

[Peter Dickinson]

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PuSh Festival Critical Ideas Series 2019
Presented with SFU’s Institute for Performance Studies
Supported by SFU Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology and SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs
Critical Ideas is a partnership between the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Simon Fraser University’s Institute for Performance Studies that brings together artists, critics, scholars and audiences to discuss formal, social and ideological issues affecting performance practice and reception today. Panels are moderated by Peter Dickinson and are free and open to the public.

Panel 1: Sound + Space
Friday, January 18, 2:30-4:00 pm, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward’s
Join curator and sound artist Aki Onda for a talk on contemporary Japanese sound art, as exemplified by three distinct artists in PuSh’s 2019 program: ASUNA, Marginal Consort, and Tetsuya Umeda. Their work combines the use of unconventional and self-made instruments with analogue equipment, with the visual arrangement of the objects itself becoming a “score.” Combined with the individual architecture and acoustics of the site, sound transforms and creates space, guiding the flow and development of the performance itself.
Featured Speakers: Aki Onda, followed by conversation with Kazuo Imai (Marginal Consort) and ASUNA (100 Keyboards)
Moderator: Peter Dickinson, Director, SFU’s Institute for Performance Studies

Panel 2: Arts + Access
Friday, January 25, 2:30-4:00 pm, Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Woodward’s
As an ongoing Festival thematic concern, we ask: How is accessibility changing the way we create, curate and experience art? What do we have to gain when we re-frame our perception of disability from one of limitation to one of possibilities? For this edition of the conversation, we centre the experience of d/Deaf artists and practitioners, asking how intersectionality can be used as a tool to build bridges and address the system of inclusion.
Featured Speakers: Dawn Jani Birley, Performer, and Ravi Jain, Director (Prince Hamlet); Denise Read (ASQL Entertainment); and Jan Derbyshire, Playwright and Performer
Moderator: Peter Dickinson, Director, SFU’s Institute for Performance Studies

Panel 3: Ethics + Consent
Friday, February 1, 10:30-12:00 pm, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU Woodward’s
Performance-based practice involves relationships between people, whether amongst artists and practitioners creating and producing the work itself, or between artists and audiences. How do we reconcile with structures of power that shape these relationships? For this panel, we discuss the ethics of consent and care in performance and curatorial practice, reflecting on a range of social, political and geographic contexts.
Featured Speakers: Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Evalyn Parry, Performers (Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools); Lee Su-Feh (Artistic Director, batter opera); and Victoria Hunt, Choreographer/Performer (Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka)
Guest Moderator: Renellta Arluk, Director of Indigenous Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
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Peter Dickinson, PhD
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Professor, Department of English
Simon Fraser University • Office: AQ 6117
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Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts
SFU Woodward’s • Office: GCA 3510
www.sfu.ca/sca

Director, Institute for Performance Studies
SFU at Harbour Centre • Office: HC 3205
www.sfu.ca/ips

Editor, Performance Matters
performancematters-thejournal.com

At Simon Fraser University, we live and work on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. I thank the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh),and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations for their hospitality.


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