Émilie MonnetWaira NinaStéphane ClaudeLeonel VasquezSarah Williamsnigamon/tunai
D. Chedore, 2013
Encuentro
June 21 – 28, 2014
Master Classes
June 23, 24, 25 & 26, 2014
nigamon/tunai masterclass
Registration fee: 40 $
Prerequisites: The workshop is open to professional artists and individuals with experience in creative processes, visual arts, media arts and/or performance.
Schedule: June 23, 24, 25, 26, 9 to 11 am
Space is limited; please register by June 19, 2014 by emailing lab@oboro.net with the subject header nigamon/tunai masterclass, or by phone at 514 844 320, ext. 230.
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Masterclass description
Inga (Amazon/Colombia) artist Waira Nina and Anishinaabe (Québec/Canada) artist Emilie Monnet come together to pursue the development of their interdisciplinary performance collaboration, nigamon/tunai.
The 3-day workshop will cover the cross-cultural techniques that Nina and Monnet have devised together as a way of bridging indigenous women’s teachings from North and South America. Nina and Monnet use the study of colour, field recording and the sharing of songs and stories as a means of exploring and bridging linguistic and cultural differences to make manifest the invisible world of their ancestors. Their investigation of colour has allowed them to develop a common language outside of the constraints of Anishinaabemowin, Inga Kichwa, Spanish, French or English. Together with sound artists Stéphane Claude and Leonel Vasquez, and choreographer Sarah Williams, they will guide participants through a master class deploying OBORO’s production studio, portable recording devices and the expertise from the audio and multimedia sectors.
This masterclass is an opportunity for participants to experiment with concrete processes and equipment to make the unknowable manifest. It is a rare occasion to engage in discourses and actions with the guidance of highly experienced artists and teachers.
These activities coincide with the conference, Manifest! Choreographing Social Movements in the Americas, the 9th International Encuentro of Performance and Politics in the Americas, to be hosted by Concordia University.
D. Chedore, 2013
Intergrating theatre, performance art and technology, Émilie Monnet’s artistic practice explores themes of identity, memory, co-existence and transformation. In 2016, Émilie founded Indigenous Contemporary Scene (ICS), a critical and artistic manifestation of live-arts by indigenous artists. Its last edition took place in Montreal, from June 1 to 9, 2017. Émilie’s heritage is Anishnaabe and French, and she lives in Montreal.
Waira Nina is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural policy advisor for the Inga Nation. As a founder of the Yachaikury Educative Institution and an inheritor of the ambiwaska traditional ceremonies passed on to her by her grandparents, Nina possesses a wealth of knowledge that has assisted in the official recognition of Inga territories and the creation of a Pan-Amazonian radio network in the Inga language. In correlation with her ongoing study of ancestral traditions, Nina has written a book, Life is but a Vision, to be published in English and Spanis
Stéphane Claude is an electronic_acoustic composer and sound engineer. His research is based on integrating a conceptual and physiological framework of audio recording and sound installation for different diffusion contexts in the electronic arts.
Colombian artist Leonel Vasquez holds a Masters of visual and plastic arts from the National University of Colombia, where he developed a proposal for sound dimension, through sculptures, installations, videos and facts, also exploring the states of tension between spaces, architectures, bodies and voices as main components of reflection of his work.
After dancing for several leading choreographers and companies in Vancouver, Sarah Williams moved to Montreal to join La La La Human Steps in 1990. Since then we have seen her on stage, in art galleries and in film, performing in the works of prominent directors and choreographers like Robert Lepage, Jean Pierre Perreault, Martin Faucher, Léa Pool, Claude Fournier, and Nelson Henricks. Sarah has been a guest artist in Halifax and back in Vancouver with The Holy Body Tattoo and Joe Ink and in Montreal with George Stamos and Louise Bédard Danse.
