prOphecy sun + Luciana Freire D’Anunciação
Wed Nov 22
gold saucer / 211-b, 207 W Hastings St
installation viewing 8pm / performance 9pm
admission by donation (cash only) / cash bar ($5 drinks)
followed by Opening Night Party @ 10PM
Magical beast: the space within, out, and in between
120 mins / Live performance
prop design by Meghan Rosner
A performative installation that explores notions of time and space, recurring and suspended imagery, expanding and contracting breath arrangements and massaging sequences with a larger-than-life amorphous, skin-like inflatable object. The ambient vocal compositions offer a deep mixture of breath and tones in minimal mixed, looping patterns to fill the space, alongside light, fluid and floaty improvised movement sequences, centered around collectively massaging the inflatable object.
prOphecy sun’s interdisciplinary performance practice threads together both conscious and unconscious choreographies, sound, and environment, to create exploratory works that invoke deep body memory, celebrating where art and life are inseparable, and inexhaustibly overlapped. Her doctoral research takes up these ideas alongside what theorist Jane Bennett calls vibrant objects, across thresholds, into domestic geographies, considering how the maternalbody responds to the agency of things in the world. She has a blackbelt in Kickboxing, training in dance improvisation, butoh, contact improvisation and somatic dance practices. Over the last 9 years she has been self-releasing music, choreography, compositions and videos using smartphone technology as a capturing tool. She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally at the Surrey Art Gallery, One Art Space, L’alternative: Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona, Festival Miden, Unit/Pitt Gallery, IAC Gallery (Berlin), Institut für Alles Mögliche, Cinethesia Feminist Film Festival, Orillia Museum of Art and History, Push Festival, Fazakas Gallery, VIVO Media Arts Centre, ISEA 2015, DIS 2014, Vancouver Art Gallery, Dancing on the Edge, Scotiabank Dance Centre, 12 Min Max, Fontanelle Gallery, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, International Experimental Cinema Explosion, Exploding Cinema Festival, Festival des Musiques Creation, and the International Festival of Live Networked Performances.
Luciana Freire D’Anunciação is a Brazilian artist who develops interdisciplinary works with dance, theatre, video, installation and sound, which have been exhibited/performed around the globe in events such as the Brazilian Dance Festival (Recife, PE), Galeria Peras del Olmo (Buenos Aires, AR), Vizualeyez Festival (Edmonton), Performance biennale Deformes (Santiago, Chile), Festival Europeu de Performance Art (Poland). D’Anunciação’s works have as a starting point her own perceptive system and from there the possible relations she can build with the world and the other socially, politically, and playfully. She has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from SFU and training in dance improvisation, somatic dance practices, butoh, contact improvisation, and physical theatre. She is currently back in Vancouver for a residency with Dance Troupe Practice as part of Vancouver Parks Fieldhouse Residency.