Comment oublier d’arroser les plantes demain
Mai thi Bach Ngoc Nguyen
là / dans la convergence / des erreurs commises pour l’avenir
Alegría Gobeil + Alex Pouliot + Ariane Gagné + Camille Blais + Corinne Asselin + Frédérique Chassé + Guillaume B.B. + Juan Antonio Bonillo + Michaëlle Morasse + Sascha Cowan
Comment oublier d’arroser les plantes demain is a personal performative quest: the search for the perfect burial site for the immigrant body
Born somewhere in Spain, on one of those elastic days watching laundry tumble around a slow three-euro washing machine, this performance is based on the idea of accomplishment through sheer power of will. Tackling themes like oblivion and transcendence, this piece was created and written for the sole purpose of being forgotten, a sedentary attempt to test the limits of idleness.
Mai Bach-Ngoc Nguyen is a 1.75th generation, multidisciplinary Vietnamese artist who relinquished the “Thi” of her name. Using installation, performance and documentation, her projects focus on collections of poetic acts and moving objects that, when taken together, challenge the boundaries of her body and colonial surroundings.
Creation and Performance Mai thi Bach Ngoc Nguyen Photo Dany Massicotte Video teaser Jade Abloh-Ferreira, video documentation of the manœuvre and post-performance Où se font enterrer les gens comme moi
là / dans la convergence / des erreurs commises pour l’avenir
Là / dans la convergence / des erreurs commises pour l’avenir is a political and poetic exploration of time. Coming from a discomfort towards what we conceive as ‘the future’ and its underlying linear conception of a (re)productive future, this proposition delves into repetition, anachrony and failure — if it occurs. The collective invites members of the audience to share a space which hides and reveals the actions taking place within it, creating a multiplicity of spatio-temporalities that refuse and duplicate themselves.
This spontaneous collective is composed of participants from the fields of visual arts, dance, drag, theatre, political science and gender studies. Interested in decompartmentalizing these artistic disciplines and sharing their complementary knowledge, they work in a horizontal collaboration where the notions of “onstage” and “offstage” overlap. là / dans la convergence / des erreurs commises pour l’avenir (2019) is the culmination of a series of workshops and seminars that took place over the last six months.
Co-creation and visuals Alegría Gobeil, Alex Pouliot, Ariane Gagné, Camille Blais, Corinne Asselin, Frédérique Chassé, Guillaume B.B., Juan Antonio Bonillo, Michaëlle Morasse, Sascha Cowan
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| Fonderie Darling | ||
| 27.05 | 20:30 pm | |
| 28.05 | 3 pm |
