Theo Pelmus+Kris Snowbird Language of Flowers A Live Performance by PelmuSnowbird

Language of Flowers: A Live Performance by Kristin Snowbird and Theo Pelmus

Experience emotions, messages and memories through the language of flowers, a performance by Theo Pelmus and Kristin Snowbird, that explores the non-verbal language of flowers across cultures.

(Aprox 25 minutes)

After the performance:

Special presentation featuring
Bret Parenteau aka BP
Poetry with a Chainsaw

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDIRfNgMUkmsriYKonhhJgA
https://vucavu.com/en/artists/p/theo-pelmus
https://vimeo.com/user12789114

Free entry
Contact WhatsApp 0720854187

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Kris Snowbird
Artist Statement

My process of work can be described as a continuous questioning and understanding of the way in which my tradition as a First Nations woman influences the way I conceptualize art. One pivotal aspect of the work I am creating is the traditional labor of beading and how it can be applied to different mediums of art. I am researching these approaches though film, photography, and performance. I am interested in art as a process of making a difference in the understanding of the culture I come from, with its stories, traditions, and the historical and personal trauma.
Biography
Kris Snowbird is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist working in visual and performance art, photography and filmmaking. She is from Pine Creek First Nation and of Cree and Ojibwe descent. In 2015, she participated in the Foundation Mentorship Program at Mentoring Women for Women’s Art (MAWA), working one on one with curator, Natalia Lebedinskaia. Snowbird created her first short film SWEAT in 2016, which was funded by the Winnipeg Film Group’s Mosaic Women’s Film Fund. Since 2016, SWEAT is currently been presented on the digital media art platform, VUCAVU and touring around the world at film festivals like that of the 2016 Gimli Film Festival (Gimli, MB), Native Spirit Film Festival (London, England); in 2017, VIMAF (Vancouver, BC), Hot Docs, (Toronto, ON), Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival (Ottawa, ON), St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (St. John’s, NL), ReFrame Film Festival (Peterborough, ON), Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie (Percé, QC); and in 2019 Cinéma Oblò, (Lausanne, Switzerland), Cinéma Spoutnik, (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa, ON). Snowbird has performed with her collaborator and partner, Theo Pelmus, at each of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Winnipeg Nuit Blanche events, as well as the 2017 LIVE Biennale of Performance Art (Vancouver, BC).

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Theo Pelmus
Artist Statement

My process of work can be described as a continuous construction and deconstruction of slippery identity and gender. In my performance, photo and video work I create obscure multisensory baroque environments that fuse in unusual way elements from sculpture, video, absurd theater and visceral opera. The multisensorial aspect of my performance practice is achieved through innovative ways of using wireless sensors technology and new media. My performance practice mirrors the baroque and radical aesthetics and redefines their characteristics through imitation and inversion, sublimation and glamorization. I invert radical performativity in order to adventure into the realm of playfulness where martyrs are made from candy, and blood is made from sugar and caramel. Glamour and dirt coexist in the same territory. This is my play in a defected playground where feelings and thoughts can be represented as a physical shock, and where drama and jubilation intertwine. My latest body of work places my baroque Romanian identity in a specific niche where filthy operas, sickly sweet parades and hyperbolic presentation take form of a kaleidoscopic vision of sacred and profane.
So far I have been exploring through my practice the crossover between new media, technology and performance art under the umbrella of glamour and excess. Through the means of technology I have tried to develop performative tools that mediates the content of a work of art. My work dynamic has been defined so far as an interaction between the performer and the viewer in a close proximity. The performative projects that I create aim to identify specific attributes that align with my multisensorial performance discourse, such as: technology as a mediation platform, the infiltration of new technological developments into new-media, the role of the artist as an interface between technology and new media.
Biography
Theo Pelmus is a multi-disciplinary artist working in visual and performance art, photography and video. He presented his work nationally (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal) and internationally (Denmark, New Zeeland, NY. USA, Romania, Bogota, Colombia. Theo has performed with her collaborator and partner, Kris Snowbird, under the collective name PelmuSnowbird at each of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Winnipeg Nuit Blanche events, as well as the 2017 LIVE Biennale of Performance Art (Vancouver, BC).

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