The White Water Gallery is working with several local artists presenting at the Fair of Alternative Art in Sudbury (FAAS) from June 14 - 17.
The Distance Between Us collective of Tara and Clayton Windatt fromSturgeon Falls, and Emilio and Elyse Portal from Sudbury will be performing, documenting, screening, and repeating over multiple days of contemporary art expression.
"The members of Distance Between Us have created a studio for art creation called www.studioproject.ca and are working with the White Water Gallery to present at this year’s FAAS," says a news release. "This performance marks the first in a series of summer pop-up performances entitled “Offerings of Care” which are all explorations of movement and message considering how environment and collective survival can be achieved.
"Artists work across boundaries when challenging the status quo. Boundaries of social discourse, relationships, geologies and the subtle expectations of conformity by peers," says the release. "Making statements about the turbulence and dangers of our current existence is the responsibility of every generation as an act of preservation and survival. This responsibility is a challenge that is manifest through artistic intention, process, material, form and outcome. How does and how can the art work vitally influence individual and societal behaviours?
"As artists, we struggle with a balance in life. We consider making messages through arts actions and how these arts actions may contribute negatively to our world's problems. We also consider living in a basic and sustainable manner and how creating well-intended isolation will not make the world's problems go away. We struggle balancing life and art as impulses lead us to making offerings to our world of care toward a healthy collective future."
Offerings of Care is a series of performative gestures conducted during FAAS which will be documented and screened over future performative gestures. Each performance contributes to the next as the documentation is compiled with each new activation. Each work responds to the location, and context of activation and will include movement, media, and sound.
"Our collective will be working towards creating new work on site during FAAS creating a culminating series of multi-arts performances building to a finale at the end of the festival."
All are welcome, go to GNO’s website for festival details. https://gn-o.org/en/programming/faas7-kathleen/
