Taking in Strangers
November 28, 2001
Performance Art
About the Program
Louise Moyes' Taking in Strangers is a performance that explores—through oral history, physical, theatre, video, and projected images—the similarities and connections between the people of Newfoundland and Québec. With text taken verbatim from conversations, this show plays with senses of humour and place and looks at how language—each uniquely distinctive—reveals the identity of both. Growing up a Newfoundlander of Cockney parentage and later moving to Québec, Moyes developed a fascination for accents, stories, and personal as well as contrasting world views.This performance was presented by grunt gallery.
Artist
Louise MoyesIdentifier
2001.1128 TAKPart of the series
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2001Collection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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