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Friday Gossip Round-up – Part 1

ARTGOSSIP.CA — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 02:42:26 +0000

Friday’s gossip post is so big and juicy that it needs be be split into two parts!

After Nahed Mansour & Bojana Videkanic‘s final performance on Friday afternoon, festival supporters met downtown at Royal Canadian Legion #1. Art Club, explained Rita McKeough, meets there every Friday evening at the Legion. Over pints, Tomas Jonsson, McKeough, and M:ST board members Renato Vitic and Sonia Edworthy debriefed on the successes and failures of the 6th biannual festival.

Vitic expressed disappointment at the dearth of nudity, but reported that the floor of Truck is still sticky and will probably take weeks to clean. (Vitic was referring to TouVA Offspring Christina Mayder‘s honey-drenched performance.)

Jonsson remarked that, barring the situation in Lethbridge, there were surprisingly few injuries. Other topics ranged from visiting artist programs (at ACAD & the UofC) to lightbulb jokes, and of course, as is ubiquitous among artist-run types, real estate and property rentals.

“Q: How many performance artists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: I don’t know, I left.” — McKeough.

“Q: How many relational aestheticists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: One, but she gets a member of the public to do it for her.”

Karillyn Ming Ho (far left) and others at Stride Gallery on October 26.

By 8pm the group dispersed, and most headed over to Stride for dual openings: Karilynn Ming Ho‘s WHERE WHERE THERE THERE in the Project Space, and Brian Batista‘s colourful “3D” paintings of Hindu deities upstairs.

l-r: Tomas Jonsson & Pauline Cummins

AUDIO: Performing Masculinities Panel

ARTGOSSIP.CA — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:47:04 +0000

On Thursday, at the University of Calgary’s Nickle Gallery, artists who have who have dressed in men’s clothing for during their performances discussed their practices’ relationships with gender and masculinity. Interestingly, all panelists were women: Pauline Cummins, Kay Burns, Wednesday Lupypciw, Nahed Mansour, and Bojana Videkanic. The panel was moderated by Karilynn Ming Ho, whose exhibition WHERE WHERE THERE THERE opens at Stride Gallery on October 26.

Wednesday Lupypciw with an image from JDH: Keepin’ On, Keepin’ On

Lupypciw discusses lady drag, Board Meeting of the Easy Town Super Hos and LIDS’ JDH: Keepin’ On, Keepin’ On, in which she attempted to live the life of Calgary artist Jason de Haan for a week.

LISTEN: Wednesday Lupypciw

Mansour & Videkanic as Nasser & Tito

“When they [Gamal Abdel Nasser & Josip Broz Tito] met each other, and met other of their allies involved in the Non-Aligned Movement, they very much took on each other’s mannerisms and dressed similarly.”

Pauline Cummins

We copy how men take up space, and how relaxed men are, or appear to be, on the street. I would never lean on a bin and stay there for ten minutes as a woman, but as a man it’s kind of relaxing.”

LISTEN: Pauline Cummins

Equipment Requests Denied

ARTGOSSIP.CA — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:03:34 +0000

Through diligent research and eavesdropping, ARTGOSSIP.CA has assembled the following list of performance equipment and supplies requested by artists, but denied by M:ST for budgetary or other reasons:

A bucket of horse urine (Randy Gledhill)
“At least a dozen babies or small children” (Bojana Videkanic & Nahed Mansour, presumably for kissing)
“A chainsaw, on fire if possible” (Jack Bride)
Three dozen jars of marshmallow fluff and a bottle of lighter fluid (Les Fermières Obsédées)
Caffeine pills and an espresso machine (Megan Morman)
A live frog (Pauline Cummins)