An Exact Vertigo

24/01/2017

Hi friends, as you may have guessed from our lack of call for artists this year, we are taking 2017 to let An Exact Vertigo sunset in its current form. This year sees Brynn is hard at work bringing to life the incredible and exciting Arts Assembly which will feature workshops by some beloved AEV artists in future programming (check their page for info on that). Alexa is keeping dance dialogue going over at Dance Hole facilitating discussions at PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, getting sweaty and generally plotting and planning with collaborators near and far to make, destroy and dismantle. A warm thanks to Unit/Pitt Projects for supporting us in our dream experiment. We had such a wonderful 2 years dancing, reading, discussing, and partying with you; here's to more of that in many forms for many more years to come. Love, An Exact Vertigo.

12/04/2016

On Wednesday night, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim and Remy Siu of Hong Kong Exile told us about processes of deskilling and reskilling in their own practices, and led us in a discussion about obstacles and possibilities that appear when moving towards a post-disciplinary creative method. Strategies for dismantling and decolonizing learned, institutional, and political access to knowledge, and reclaiming the apparatus of the self as a tool for doing so were debated. In short, it was a much needed conversation, and you can listen to it here:

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/april-6-hong-kong-exile-2

  On Wednesday night, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim and Remy Siu of Hong Kong Exile told us about processes of deskilling and reskilling in their own practices, and led us in a discussion ab…

09/04/2016

Saturday at 3pm, Hong Kong Exile will lead us in a workshop. They are being fairly mysterious about it, but there'll be games involved. Come warm up your smiling muscles for Sask Social #3!!

04/04/2016

On Saturday, April 2nd, Lee Su-Feh led us in a workshop called Pleasure. We moved towards pleasure, yielded around obstacles, used our voices, and explored our bodies with virtual gloves.

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/april-2-2016-pleasure

On Saturday, April 2nd, Lee Su-Feh led us in a workshop called Pleasure. We moved towards pleasure, yielded around obstacles, used our voices, and explored our bodies with virtual gloves.

02/04/2016

Today at 3pm at 236 east Pender, Lee Su-Feh is teaching a workshop entitled "Pleasure". Who doesn't like pleasure? Who doesn't want to be better at understanding pleasure?

31/03/2016

Last night choreographer, dancer and co-artistic director of battery opera performance Lee Su-Feh led us through her life and career by way of her teachers and mentors. Badass women, the colonial gaze, and the responsibility and complexities of "being with" all came up. Listen to the talk here: Su-Feh is performing her solo "The Things I Carry" Thursday-Saturday at 7pm at her space The Hopbopshop. [ 54 more words. ]

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/march-30-2016-lee-su-fehs-teachers

Last night choreographer, dancer and co-artistic director of battery opera performance Lee Su-Feh led us through her life and career by way of her teachers and mentors. Badass women, the colonial g…

31/03/2016

Alexa taking up a manly amount of space right now.

27/03/2016

On March 26, Justine A. Chambers led us on a silent walk through Vancouver, to observe the choreography at work in the city. Afterwards, we gathered in the gallery to discuss our findings.

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/march-26-justine-a-chambers-choreography-walk/

On March 26, Justine A. Chambers led us on a silent walk through Vancouver, to observe the choreography at work in the city. Afterwards, we gathered in the gallery to discuss our findings.

27/03/2016

On Friday, March 25, Carolina Bergonzoni took over our reading hour to share the methodology she has been working with in The Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. We attempted to move with her through the steps she set out for us: Begin, Move, Dance, and Witness, with documentation of each step in between. How do we embody a text in a creative act? Alexa Mardon used this structure to perform a duet with her phone:

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/march-25-carolina-bergonzoni/

On Friday, March 25, Carolina Bergonzoni took over our reading hour to share her methodology she has been working with The Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. We attempted to move…

26/03/2016

today, during reading hour, Carolina lead us through a score for reading, involving 4 tasks: begin, move, dance, and witness - 5 minutes to "do" each task and 3 minutes to "document it." We documented by speaking, began by dancing, danced by reading... And Alexa documented herself dancing her documentation of her reading material "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" by Erving Gottman...

26/03/2016

Tomorrow! join us in the gallery at 3pm for a workshop with Justine A. Chambers. Free and for all movers!

24/03/2016

Last night, Justine A. Chambers eschewed the formal tradition of the artist's talk for a mutual interview with the group that attended. All questions directed at her were answered with a reciprocal question pulled from various dance artists' interviews, and/or the Proust questionnaire from Vanity Fair. Justine A. Chambers will also be leading a workshop open to the public this Saturday, at 3pm at Unit/Pitt Projects.

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/march-23-justine-a-chambers-mutual-interview

  Last night, Justine A. Chambers eschewed the formal tradition of the artist’s talk for a  mutual interview with the group that attended. All questions directed at her were answered wit…

24/03/2016

Thanks Carolina Bergonzoni for sharing this incredible gif:

19/03/2016

Today Wil Aballe was kind enough to host Brynn McNab's workshop on co-producing a critical art text. We gathered in Wil Aballe's space to view and write about Evann Siebens' exhibition, THE INDEXICAL, ALPHABETIZED, MEDIATED, ARCHIVAL DANCE-A-THON! A digital performative process, we wrote for 20 minutes, read through the document, and then made some editorial decisions as a group. The finished document is available here, in PDF form: Co-WritingCriticism

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/march-19-co-writing-criticism/

Today Wil Aballe was kind enough to host Brynn McNab’s workshop on co-producing a critical art text. We gathered in Wil Aballe’s space to view and write about Evann Siebens’ exhib…

19/03/2016

Today! Meet us at 3pm, (with laptops/devices) at WAAP (1356 Frances St #105) to co-write a text in google docs about Evann Siebens' exhibition THE INDEXICAL, ALPHABETIZED, MEDIATED, ARCHIVAL DANCE-A-THON!

If you are interested in attending, or would like to follow along online, here is the link to the document we will be creating:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ADhkRs0Fs6juYUfmS8cVGjLe4cLtEQNtMMsSeM7zLHQ/edit?usp=docslist_api

19/03/2016

Alana Gerecke shared the work that she has been doing in the gallery with us this afternoon. Related to her PhD dissertation on sites and site-specificity, she has been exploring these concepts with her own body and its accumulation of memory of the spaces and movements it has inhabited.

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/march-18-alana-gerecke

Alana Gerecke shared the work that she has been doing in the gallery with us this afternoon. Related to her PhD dissertation on sites and site-specificity, she has been exploring these concepts wit…

18/03/2016

The discussion on March 16th featured Alexa Solveig Mardon, Brynn McNab and Publication Studio Vancouver resident Jacquelyn Ross, and was led by Peter Dickinson. Meant to connect the exhibition on the walls of the gallery, with the dance series’ concern about texts, poetics, and the idea of the score in movement based practices, It explored questions about what kind of dance is possible within the practice of writing, what role text and writing has in a dance practice, and the variations of the use of poetics and criticism in both realms.

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/march-16-poetics-performance-and-criticism

The discussion on March 16th featured  Alexa Mardon Brynn McNab, and Publication Studio Vancouver resident Jacquelyn Ross, and and was led by Peter Dickinson. Meant to connect the exhibition on the…

17/03/2016

Come through it's way better than your living room in here. 📚🛋🍷💭

16/03/2016

We've brought what books we can carry to our temporary library at Unit/Pitt Projects. Have something interesting on dance/movement/poetics that you would be willing to contribute for the next four weeks? Write your name in it and drop it off. Or, just come hang out with us and read on Friday at 1pm.

10/03/2016

The beautiful backdrop of poetic works by Jordan Abel, bill bissett, Daniel LaFrance, Donato Mancini, sidony o'neal, Anahita Jamali Rad and The Third Thing will be up on the walls all through An Exact Vertigo this year, thanks to the curatorial mastermind Gabriel Saloman. Let's dance between words!

09/03/2016

Our website has launched! There is more information on upcoming activities/events/publications/performances all right here, and updated on the regular!

https://anexactvertigo.wordpress.com/

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