Artist Talks

Artist Talks and performative lectures are an integral part of our research/performance practice. Earlier versions of crucial ideas that we have slowly nurtured emerged during these moments of preparation and presentation. In a sense, the flow between our talks, workshops, performances and writing practice is seamless, which is to say, all these forms are various manifestations of our passion for exploring “the performative.”

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Practicing the 7^th Sense: Performance in the Seen and Unseen

Presented in both Toronto and Calgary, this performative lecture vividly put on display our lively approach to delivering intellectual concepts, demonstrating the embodied “performative” manner that drives our thinking and enacting. Practicing the 7th: Performance in the Seen and Unseen constituted the direct transmission of a text in which various levels of language are deployed to offer discourses, explanations, quotations, stories, actions, even songs… Here, all methods for “doing” are called forth to reveal the multiple manifestations that are both visible and invisible in this “necessity for what is alive” that for us, defines “the performative.” This performative is what we think of as the 7^th Sense.