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SUMMARY:Improvising Care  - McGill/Montreal\, October 5–9\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:Improvising Care\nMcGill/Montreal\nOct 5-9\, 2024\n“In a democratic society art should be the location where everyone can witness the joy\, pleasure\, and power that emerges when there is freedom of expression….” bell hooks\, “Workers for Artistic freedom” \n“Healing can occur . . . when one’s inner experience is made manifest and accepted by others.” Pauline Oliveros\, Sonic Meditations \nRecent history\, from COVID through climate change\, massive displacements of people\, a worrying increase in various forms of totalitarianism\, unjust wars (are there any other kinds?) the rapid rise of neo-liberalism (one can easily multiply this list) has both placed a greater focus on\, and need for\, care\, and at the same time radically reduced the structures from which care often operates. As traditional institutions of care are denuded of resources\, and governments implement policies that make care simultaneously more difficult to enact\, yet that much more needed\, it is fair to say we are facing a crisis of care. How can art and artists implement care in their practices? How should society care for artists\, and artists for each other\, and how can art itself be a tool for care and how should artists interact with communities in caring ways? Given improvisation’s ability to creatively and imaginatively find ways to modify existing structures\, subvert norms and implement new forms of sociality\, do we perhaps now more than ever need to improvise new models of care? \nSome topics might include: \n– How can artists work ethically in community\, showing care for them? \n– What would a society that cares for its artists look like\, what policies and structures would be called for? \n– How can art itself both model care and implement care—how can art be used to care for ourselves and others? \n– How does putting care front and centre in artistic practice problematize a host of traditional assumptions about what art is and what it isn’t? \n– How can new technologies both be used to create new possibilities for care\, and themselves be the subjects of care? \nWe invite contributions addressing the topic of care and the arts\, with an emphasis on the improvisatory. Contributions can be varied\, traditional papers\, panels\, discussions\, performances\, mixed-media\, videos\, interventions—we place no limitations per se on what you might want to contribute\, except that the linkage with the theme should be clear\, and technically the contribution should not require excessive equipment\, set up\, staff\, etc. \nSome of this event will be dedicated to research and performance emerging out of the COST-Funded Toolkit of Care project (https://toolkitof.care). This pan-European project focuses on ways in which artists can model care\, enact principles of care in their artistic practices\, and create networks of mutual care. \nWe will be partnering with Art in the Margins’ Festival Flux Festival\, which will run concurrently\, affording us fun evening performances! \nTHIS CALL IS NOT DIRECTED ONLY TO ACADEMICS! We seek out contributions from community members/organizations\, independent artists and researchers\, or anyone with an interest in this topic. \nPlease send your proposal to: eric.lewis@mcgill.ca by July 20. Please put in the subject heading “improvising care”. Be clear about what you are proposing. If it involves other participants\, please name them with contact info. If you have particular tech needs/space needs be clear about them. Also let us know the length of time you ideally would need—flexibility here is helpful (e.g.\, 25-40 mins\, is better than just 40 mins!). Please limit proposals to one page. \nWhile we will endeavor to have all our spaces wheelchair accessible\, please let us know in your proposal if you have any particular needs with respect to access or adaptability (or anything else that will allow us to make the event as welcoming to you as possible!). \nThis event is a partnership between IICSI\, LUC\, Toolkitofcare\, and Arts in the Margins
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/improvising-care-mcgill-montreal-october-5-9-2024/
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SUMMARY:IICSI Co-Presents: The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - Hillside Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, July 20 at 10:00 PM (ET) for “The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis” at Hillside Festival 2024! \nThis performance will take place in person on Guelph Lake Island. Tickets are available on the Festival Website. \nMore About This Event:\nThe Hillside Community Festival is a not-for-profit music festival that celebrates creativity through artistic expression\, community engagement\, and environmental leadership. This year\, Hillside Festival runs from July 19–21. \nMore About the Artists:\nOne of the most iconic rhythm sections in modern music\, drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally were the insistent engine of DC post-hardcore legends Fugazi for over 15 years. In 2016\, they formed Messthetics with guitar virtuoso Anthony Pirog\, and released two albums of turbulent\, propulsive\, groove-laden instrumental art rock. Drawing on jazz\, punk\, dub\, and free improv\, they’re equally at home in an expansive take on Sonny Sharrock’s “Once Upon a Time” as they are in blazing\, math-metal riff barrages. \nIn late-2021\, they were joined onstage by acclaimed saxophonist James Brandon Lewis\, and sparks flew. Lally recalls a full-throttle passage when Lewis and Pirog began trading solos. As the intensity escalated\, the bassist felt simultaneously challenged and exhilarated. “You’re just holding on and going\, it sounds great\,” he remembers telling himself. “Just keep going!” Thankfully for fans of next-level\, genre-defying music\, they have. Called “one of the modern titans of the tenor” by All About Jazz\, the ecstatic fervour of James Brandon Lewis’ playing points back to John Coltrane\, Pharoah Sanders\, and the rich tradition of the Impulse! label–a tradition that the combustive quartet is now a part of with their eponymous 2024 release. For his part\, Lewis relishes the chance to plug into the power of the Messthetics’ punk-adjacent milieu\, calling their provocative real-time musical conversation a “high point of musical bonding and purely unapologetic energy! When you hear the Messthetics by themselves\, that shit is cranking. And I’m always signing up to crank.”
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/iicsi-hillside-2024-the-messthetics-and-james-brandon-lewis/
LOCATION:Guelph Lake Conservation Area\, 7743 Conservation Road\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1H 6J1\, Canada
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