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Get Ready for Day 3! Make sure to register at livebiennale.ca/2021/ to tune in live on Ohyay and receive an invitation to the LIVE Platform where you can discuss the day's topics and other art related things!

For those of you who wish to just watch, the stream will be hosted on the LIVE Biennale Facebook page!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Day 2 is on its way! Make sure to register at livebiennale.ca/2021/ to tune in live on Ohyay and receive an invitation to the LIVE Platform where you can discuss the day's topics and other art related things!

For those of you who wish to just watch, the stream will be hosted on the LIVE Biennale Facebook page!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Tomorrow marks Day 1 of our three day event! Make sure to register at livebiennale.ca/2021/ to tune in live on Ohyay and receive an invitation to the LIVE Platform where you can discuss the day's topics and other art related things!

For those of you who wish to just watch, the stream will be hosted on the LIVE Biennale Facebook page!

We look forward to seeing you there!

“SECOND WALK: assembled meanings for home” (2011) by Guadalupe Martinez

Part of a residency at GAM Gallery, “Second Walk” is a durational performance, taking place over 12 hours. During this performative walk, Martinez collected objects from sites surrounding the gallery and her Vancouver residence. The objects were brought back to the gallery and arranged as an installation.

Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.

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In this segment of Annotating the Archive, Yasmine speaks to Guadalupe Martinez about her performance during the LIVE biennale in 2011.

More videos and archival information on our website,:
livebiennale.ca/2021

Filmed and edited by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora (@ywk). Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.

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Guadalupe Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist and educator interested in understanding the multiple and complex relationships between the sensorial and the environment, identity and place.

[Image Description: portrait of Guadalupe Martinez]

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Dr. Cissie Fu (AB Harvard; MSt, MSc, DPhil Oxford) is a political theorist and co-founder of the Political Arts Initiative, which invites 21st-century political imag-e-nations through digital technology and the creative and performing arts.

[Image Description: portrait of Cissie Fu]

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Brian Postalian (Բրայն Փոսթալյան) is an arts administrator, educator, and creator born and raised in Toronto/Tkaronto by way of Armenia, Ireland, Wales, and the Czech Republic.

[Image Description: portrait of Brian Postalian]

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“Mending” (2009) by Margaret Dragu

This work was part of a series of pieces centered around “verb actions” developed by Margaret Dragu in collaboration with Paul Couillard. In this piece, Dragu films herself repeating the action of “mending,” overlapping the subsequent iterations to create layers of actions that slowly deteriorate and obscure with each repetition.

More videos and archival information on our website, link in bio!

Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.

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In this segment of Annotating the Archives, Yasmine speaks to Margaret Dragu (@ladragu) about her performance during LIVE biennale in 2009.

More videos and archival information on our website, link in bio!

Interview filmed by Brady Marks (@furiousgreencloud) and edited by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora (@ywk). Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.

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Pegah is an Interdisciplinary artist with interests in creating inter-medial performances, interactive performances, cyberformances, digital performances, multi-channel video installations, and city projects. She has been working on the notion of ‘presence‘ and ‘absence‘ in her art practice.

[Image Description: portrait of Pegah Tabassinejad]

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Reiko Inouye is an emerging artist, curator, organizer, and settler guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the xwmə0–kwəy’əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

[Image Description: portrait of Reiko Inouye]

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James Albers is an emerging artist, curator, writer, organizer, and performer based on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.

[Image Description: portrait of James Albers]

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Chipo Chipaziwa was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Chipaziwa’s work addresses the duality of subjectivity and objectivity; the notion of identity and its fluidity, and the performativity of the African [female] body.

[Image Description: portrait of Chipo Chipaziwa]

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Aerial Sunday-Cardinal is a Cree multidisciplinary artist from a small reservation in Northern Alberta. She creates conceptual art with a focus on philosophy, spirituality, the human experience, and her experience as a First Nations being.

[Image Description: portrait of Aerial Sunday-Cardinal]

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Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local”.

[Image Description: portrait of Jeanne van Heeswijk]

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Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural critic born in the UK with South Asian/British roots. His performative, usually ephemeral, artworks have been presented across Canada, in India, Europe and USA.
[Image Description: portrait of Chris Creighton-Kelly]

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Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. Morin’s artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating Land/Knowing, articulating Indigenous Grief/Loss, articulating Community Knowing, and understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous body.

[Image Description: portrait of Peter Morin ]

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In addition to the Assembly preparations, LIVE has begun digging into our archives. As we’ve been gathering, labelling, assessing and creating frameworks for the future of the LIVE archives, many questions have surfaced around what it means to hold a body of performance art documentation. How can context be introduced to support the documentation of past performances? How can the archive care for and serve the artists whose documentation it holds?

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Maria Hlavajova is an organizer, researcher, educator, curator, and founding general and artistic director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (since 2000).

[Image Description: portrait of Maria Hlavajova]

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