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June 4, 2014. The Tracy Wright Global Archive opens today at The Theatre Centre.
In the project’s inaugural year Jani Lauzon, Denise Fujiwara, Marcus Youssef and Nadia Ross have traveled to the Mojave Desert, Japan, Egypt and India respectively, each seeking answers to questions and inspiring new directions in their work. These artists will share their personal journeys through various forms of presentation taking place in the different spaces at The Theatre Centre.
TRACY WRIGHT GLOBAL ARCHIVE - THIS WEEK!
We sent four artists, armed with a burning question, to places across the globe. Come experience, understand and respond to what they learned.
PROPHECY FOG | JANI LAUZON | GIANT ROCK, MOJAVE DESERT
June 4-7, 7PM; June 8, 2PM
Once home to sacred ceremonies, UFO conventions, an airport and Howard Hughes favourite restaurant, the Giant Rock now stands covered in graffiti and surrounded by broken bottles and the silence synonymous with the sand swept Mojave Desert. Near by stands the “Integratron”, an acoustically perfect dome built by Giant Rock homesteader and Ufologist, George Van Tassel with instructions from his Venusian contactees. The Integratron now serves as a meditation retreat, Van Tassel’s original dream of a time machine never realized. Come join us in a meditation under Giant Rock, a sound bath at the “Integratron” and if the stars align, a ride in an alien spacecraft.
MARCUS YOUSSEF | WHOSE REVOLUTION? | CAIRO, EGYPT
June 5 & June 7, 8PM
Marcus Youssef arrived in Cairo on January 12, 2014, the evening of Egypt’s third constitutional referendum since 2011. He left two weeks later, the day after the revolution’s third anniversary. In between was detained briefly by undercover police, witnessed his first car bomb, interviewed a dozen journalists, activists, academics and artists, and spoke to not one single person who said they support the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood. He also hung out with his Egyptian family for the second time in his life. His question: what is a revolution? His current answer: a better question might be whose. Whose Revolution? is part memoir of a family and exile, part snapshot of a country in the midst of massive change, and part investigation into what we can ever claim to actually know about another culture or place.
DENISE FUJIWARA | WALK WHEN YOU WALK | SHIKOKU, JAPAN
June 7 & June 8, 10AM
Denise Fujiwara investigated the notion of walking as a medium for transformation on the path of the 88 Temples Pilgrimage on the Island of Shikoku, Japan. In Japanese theatre practices, Noh, Kabuki and contemporary Butoh, walking is a medium through which character and plot, time and space are transformed. We invite you to walk in a contemplative way through The Theatre Centre’s storied neighbourhood. Fujiwara shares perspectives and koans that will allow you to experienced time, space and your self in ways that belie the seeming simplicity of the act of walking.
NADIA ROSS | WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SEEKER? | INDIA
June 7 & June 8, 4PM (exhibition); 5PM (video+performance)
What Happened to the Seeker? is a story told in three mediums: exhibit, video and performance. The Seeker is a term that was popularized in the 1960s, as hundreds of thousands of westerners began to flock to India in search of enlightenment. Now, forty years later, Nadia Ross travels to India to find out what happened to that original impulse and asks: how could that collective desire for truth end in such disappointment? Yes, true awareness is bad for the economy, so did those Seekers of the past simply succumb to their own commodification? As she walks the path of the original Seekers, she does comes face to face with the "thing that was never lost and that can never be found", and shares her discovery in a story told in triptych form.
2014-06-04
Toronto: The Tracy Wright Global Archive opens today at The Theatre Centre