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Can one man stand amidst his many voices and find herself there?
Can a person sing harmony with different parts of theirselves?
Can we trace the sound of ourselves as we change?
If so, what remains of the original voice?
Through an exploration of voice, TRACE transforms a private story into a performative experience, integrating sound, video, installation and live performance. Using archival recordings taken before and during Tristan R. Whiston’s gender transition from female to male, along with recent recordings and live vocals, TRACE explores the idea that change is constant and we are always becoming someone new.
Throughout the installation are multiple speakers, each playing a single part or element in the immersive soundscape. Audience is invited to contribute to the performance by entering one of the installation’s beach inspired changing huts and, using old-fashioned technology, create their own vocal recording, eliciting an experience of auditory self-reflection.
Video by Leslie Peters // Set elements by Trixie and Beever
Software design by Dafydd Hughes // Photo by David Hawe
ABOUT the ARTISTS
Tristan R. Whiston is a multidisciplinary artist. He is the artistic co-director of Red Dress Productions, with whom he has co-led seven large-scale community public mosaic projects. His work as an audio artist over the past five years has gained him international acclaim. Tristan has written and directed five audio documentaries for CBC; most notably, the radio documentary Middle C about what happened to his soprano singing voice during transition (http://theunobserved.com/culture/middle_c/ <http://theunobserved.com/culture/middle_c/> ), which won the 2007 Premios Ondas Award for International Radio and has aired on national radio in 7 countries. Tristan was the founding director and head boy of The Boychoir of Lesbos from 1995 - 2006.
Moynan King is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist. She was the co-founder and director of Hysteria: A Festival of Women for five years and is founder and director of Hardworkin’ Homosexuals. As an actor she has over 50 theatre, film and television credits. Moynan’s recent work focuses on immersive, interactive performance installation with the likes of The Beauty Salon, Mothering and Walk in Clinic. She is currently developing a performance adaptation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. She is on the board of the Toronto Arts Council and recently edited a queer issue of Canadian Theatre Review (Issue 149).
ABOUT FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives.
ABOUT NAISA
New Adventures in Sound Art is a non-profit organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of sound art. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental sound art in its myriad forms of expression. Co-presented by New Adventures in Sound Art for the 2012 edition of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art (August 4-31, 2012).
FADO Performance Art Centre and RDP present: TRACE
Performance Installation by Tristan R. Whiston and Moynan King
AUGUST 24-26, 2012
Presented at The Christie Studio AND Co-presented by New Adventures in Sound Art
Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street #170
Toronto
Performance Installation
August 24, 7-9pm
August 25, 11am-1pm + 7-9pm
August 26, 2-4pm
PWYC admission
Artist talk
August 25, 2pm
FREE
Photo: 2012 David Hawe.
2012-08-13
Toronto: FADO Performance Art Centre and RDP present “Trace” August 24-26