Syntax errors: The honey's not far from the sting
October 30, 2001
Performance Lecture
About the Program
As figures, bees are efficient, industrious, mobile, manageable, and profitable workers; they make honey and pollinate the flora, diligently crossing between GM and non-GM crops and, in the process, they are themselves being modified, contaminated, mutated - and are we? Margot Leigh Butler's performance uses an incitement to swarm from a 17th century musical score for voice, slides, and spoken and sung texts.Syntax errors are the symbols and letters produced by technology when given the task of translating data from one representational form to another. This series of three 'performed lectures' investigates the relationship between authoritative language, presentation technologies, and performance art. Syntax errors: a series of performed lectures was presented by Artspeak and co-sponsored by SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts.
Speaker
Margot Leigh ButlerIdentifier
2001.1030 SYNPart of the series
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2001Collection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
Fletcher Challenge Canada TheatreSimon Fraser University at Harbour Centre
515 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 5K3
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations
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