A record player. A pile of records. For every record, one story at the ready. The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information - part five of PME-ART’s HOSPITALITÉ-HOSPITALITY project - explores the way music infiltrates our personal and social lives, affecting our ongoing understanding of love, work and how we think society should operate. Until now, the collective formed by Caroline Dubois, Claudia Fancello and Jacob Wren gave twenty one performances of HOSPITALITY 5 - here and abroad - in theatres, hotel lobbies, record stores, etc., but never in its entirety. This time, the performance will not stop until there are no records left and no more stories to tell. Seven hours of DJing, seven hours of hospitality... Until the end of music.

 

Creators: Caroline Dubois, Claudia Fancello & Jacob Wren
Sound: Radwan Ghazi Moumneh

 

BIO

Focusing on artistic collaboration, the work of PME-ART is an ongoing process of interrogating the performance situation, of questioning the world, of finding the courage to say things about the current predicament that are direct and complex. In nearly fifteen years PME-ART has presented its creations in thirty-five cities, whether in Quebec, in Canada or abroad. The ongoing HOSPITALITY project is a series of performances, interventions, events and workshops that take place in a variety of venues, all focused on questions and strategies surrounding how friends and strangers alike can interact in a manner that is at the same time useful, critical, hospitable and surprising.

 

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The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information, MACM, October 2011

"There's an improv nature to the performance, a sweetly engaging quality to the work of the trio of creator/actors that doesn't aim for narrative or logical coherence but does suggest the disparity between separation and connectedness. […] Best of all is the performers' playful nature, which of course is reflected in the piece itself. Hospitality 3 may look at some serious philosophical matters, but it does so in the most light-hearted manner."  – Jon Kaplan, Now Magazine, Toronto, November 20, 2008 (about HOSPITALITY 3 – Individualism Was A Mistake)

 

 

The main lobby of Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui is transformed into a tasting hallway! Making use of existing elements found inside the theatre, which usually remain hidden from view, this installation presents them to the public en masse, at the very front of theatre, arranged as a kind of hanging garden distributing food and beverages. Inaugurated on its opening night, the installation will be alive throughout the festival by the presence of artists and their own culinary creations.

 

Creation: Dean Baldwin
Service and culinary creation: Matthieu Rivest (Crudessence) & Massimo Guerrera

 

BIO

Born in Ontario, Dean Baldwin lives and works in Montreal and Toronto. His work is centered around gastronomy and uses humour, culinary art, bar jokes and carpentry to subvert and distort the social codes related to the ritual of drinking and eating in the company of others.