Our friend Amy Fung is guest-curating an evening at Mile Zero Dance next week—perhaps the perfect follow up to Karen Zalamea’s performance that afternoon:

prairieartsters:

MILE ZERO DANCE presents “THE WIRED BODY” Salon
Guest Curated by Amy Fung

Art Salon Premiere of MZD’s 2011/2012 Season

From Amy Fung:

Keeping with MZD’s history of surprising salons, I want to carry forward the element of surprise and curiosity. Audiences and performers alike come to the salon not knowing what to expect, and I want to accentuate that it is the framework — the platform — of these interdisciplinary settings (along with the host organization and organizers) that we are all trusting.

Because there is no real difference between you and me, between audience and performer, between our two bodies. There is a distance: a difference of time meets space in perception, but let’s not get philosophical, not yet anyways. Your body is wired to mine, to everything that surrounds you, and me, and everything we don’t know. The difference between is the connection, and the connection can change depending on how close you want to come, how close you want to be.

How do you want to be wired in? Through shadows and reverberations or stimuli of a physical and intellectual kind? Presence comes first, and your presence is being requested…

Performances/Screenings/Gestures by the likes of: Amalie Atkins, Cris Derksen, Freya Bjorg Olafson, Jeannie and Jodie Vandekerkhove, Ghibli, Tamara Hamilton, Teen Jesus Barbie and more.
MC’ed by The Cedar Tavern Singers.

Lighting Design: Daniela Masellis
Stage Management: Amy Kucharuk

Guest Curator Bio: Amy Fung is a roaming cultural commentator, interdisciplinary arts writer and sometimes organizer of events and exhibitions. Her research focuses on identity politics and a sense of place. She has written extensively in the Edmonton region since 2002 and has been working in the UK this past year. She regularly publishes in national and international forums and is the founder of www.PrairieArtsters.com. For more information visit www.amyfung.ca.

‘The Wired Body’
Saturday, November 26, 2011, Showtime 8pm Doors at 7pm.
Westbury Theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures (10330 – 84 Avenue)
Tickets at the door - $10/members, $15/non-members

Please note: This event is 18+. Cash Bar. No flash photography please.