Allison Moore Aaron Pollard Clinic for Performance Practitioners Working with Sound and Image
© 2boys.tv, Tesseract, núna (now), Millenium Centre, Winnipeg (CA). Photo: Emily Christie / © Allison Moore, Fresque Grotesque, XXVe Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Chapelle des Carmélites, Toulouse
This training program is made possible with the financial support of the Quebec government, via the Intervention-Compétences program, managed by Compétence Culture, and REPAIRE.
Registration fees: $40 + tax
This one-day hands-on workshop takes the form of a clinic aimed at professional artists working in performance and technologies such as video projection or live and pre-recorded electronic sound, whether in emerging or established practices. The goal of the training is to support interdisciplinary artists in solving problems and addressing challenges that may arise at key points in their creative process. Instructors Allison Moore and Aaron Pollard will lead guided discussions around questions submitted in advance by participants.
The workshop will address the early stages of a project: initial conception and project proposals (e.g., for grant applications, calls for submissions, etc.). Questions to be addressed include: How to present your work and articulate your vision? How to build a network of potential collaborators to move the project forward according to specific needs and required expertise? The training will explore the codes and strategies used in various artistic communities and submission contexts.
The final stages of production — from post-production to presentation — will also be covered, including tools available to help in the creation and presentation of technologically mediated performances. The clinic will also explore best practices for moving a performance from creation to public presentation, particularly when it involves video projection and live/pre-recorded sound in venues with minimal technological support.
Prerequisite: Participants must submit a detailed question related to a project currently in development prior to the clinic.
Note: This workshop does not cover programming.
© 2boys.tv, Tesseract, núna (now), Millenium Centre, Winnipeg (CA). Photo: Emily Christie / © Allison Moore, Fresque Grotesque, XXVe Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Chapelle des Carmélites, Toulouse
Allison Moore is a new media artist working in expanded cinema and based in Montréal and holds an MFA in film from Concordia University. Her work has been programmed at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Tokyo Arts and Space (Japan), OBORO (Montreal), Traverse Video (France), Museu de Arte de Belem (Brazil), Festival of Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), FIFA Experimental (Montréal), MAPP Festival, MUTEK Montreal and ISEA 2020. Her recent projects involve thematic inspirations of storytelling narratives in digital arts, video-mapping landscapes and architecture, VR, site-specific public art and performance. Moore’s works reinterpret and rebuild the world as a metaphoric landscape in which sensitive beings are in synergy with their allegorical macrocosm. Moore works as a freelance editor, compositor and animator as well as teaching workshops in New Media practices.
Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist Aaron Pollard has been creating and presenting video works and multimedia performances in Canada and internationally since the early 1990s. He graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University.
