Warm Up Act

June 13, 2008
Performance Art

About the Program

Norma presented a durational, looping performance for the HIVE event. The performance will last 3 hours (or as long as HIVE does), and will consist of 4 to 6 performers acting out, one by one, an introductory speech, over and over again. With both original and copied scripts (from online sources—YouTube footage of speeches and weddings, mostly), the performers will introduce each other ad infinitum with a generic, but laudatory, intro speech. Each performer will have individualized rehearsed gestures—discomfort, nervousness, inebriation, arrogance, over-confidence, under-confidence, etc.—but will perform the exact same text. The effect of the work will be both irritating and humorous—as patrons come in and out of shows, they'll be stuck in a perpetually looping, skipping record-like introductory moment, which we hope will add to the "many shows under one roof" HIVE experience.

Artist

Norma

Identifier

2008.0613 WAR

Part of the series

HIVE 2

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

Centre for Digital Media
685 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 0C6
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations

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