Queens Museum

INTINERANT Performance Art Festival 2015

This coming weekend I am performing at the Intinerant Performance Art Festival....Saturday Nov 14 2015 2:00pm–5:00pm.
Queens Museum NYC

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PQ: Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space Summer 2015

http://services.pq.cz/en/section-of-countries-and-regions.html?itemID=510&type=nationalCountries and Regions

Canada » Section of Countries and Regions

Curator:	Patrick Du Wors
Designer / Architect of exhibition:	Patrick Du Wors
Institution:	Associated Designers of Canada

Canada PQ'15 - Shared [private] Space

The Canada PQ'15 exhibition concept is a quintessentially human experience: the outhouse. Ten outhouses will be installed within a baroque-period ballroom at the Clam-Gallas Palace. Each outhouse, showcasing a single production, will become a private theater for an individual viewer. The act of juxtaposing the rough outhouses within the highly finished room aims to provoke curiosity and comment with humor on the political position of the theater designers and their work in Canada.

The architecture of the outhouse is also a reflection on Canadian identity. ‘Garrison mentality’ is an idea first proposed by prominent scholar Northrop Fry and further elaborated by the author Margaret Atwood as a deep and unrelenting fear of the emptiness of the Canadian landscape. The Canadian psyche is one where walls are built – both physical and psychological - to isolate and protect the individual. The outhouse is a unique form of shelter and is, in a sense, a garrison built for a single person; at once a source of shelter and of isolation. The theater, however, as a shared space – ‘the last human venue’ – is celebrated most often for bringing people together. But by shifting the context of scenography from its traditional public setting to the supremely private confines of an outhouse, this installation seeks to explore scenography in the context of the last private human venue.

Selected Designs

A jury made up of prominent Canadian designers Astrid Janson, Teresa Przybylski and Allan Stichbury selected the work for the PQ'15 presentation. The Jury’s choice was largely based on innovation: looking forward to the future of Canadian theater and designs that really mirror the Prague Quadrennial’s vision of celebrating “the Designer in the heart of the scene”. The Jury has selected nine projects representing the breadth of scenographic work across the design disciplines of set, costume, lighting, sound and projection design. Their selection highlights the incredible range of styles and practices. The jury has also chosen to celebrate excellence and theatricality in a broad range of scales, from major festival stages to fringe-style productions, and to be inclusive of artists at all stages of their careers.

Exhibiting Designers Representing Canada:

• Michael Gianfrancesco
• Lorenzo Savoini
• Snezanna Pesic
• T. Erin Gruber
• Bretta Gerecke
• Eo Sharp
• Sheree Tams
• Troy Hourie
• Wade Staples
• Erin MacKlem
• Brian Linds
• Joel Adria

Editorial Styling for WIRED Magazine UK

Prague PQ 2015

This year I was invited to show my work in the Prague PQ 2015, as one of 8 designers representing Canada.

This installation is a representation of a show I designed called "The Last 15 Seconds", a devised piece by MT Space based in Kitchener Ontario. The work constructs an imagined physical and verbal dialogue between Mustapha Akkad and Rawad Jassem Mohammad Abed, the suicide bomber who carried out the explosion that killed Akkad. The work also looks at the imagined lives and memories of both the victim and his killer at the time of the explosion. The scene I have illustrated presents the aftermath of the suicide bombing, what is left of the wedding celebration. The story incorporated the Amman bombings of November 9, 2005, an attack that killed 60 people and injured 115 others. It took place at 3 hotels, the bomb at the Radisoon exploded where a wedding was taking place. Mustapha Akkad and his daughter Rima were two of the victims.

Wolves and Sheep: Illustration for set design concept

Wolves and Sheep - Pleasance Theatre Islington London UK

The Cardboard Room

The client asked for a cardboard office. I sourced boxes that would create the proper scale of furniture. We used a real plant and our model was the subject of this editorial cover shot.

Hat design

"Made In Canada" Sketches - Smile Theatre Feb - April 2015

World Theatre Day 2015

World Theater Day Message 2015 The true masters of the theater are most easily found far from the stage. And they generally have no interest in theater as a machine for replicating conventions and reproducing clichés. They search out the pulsing source, the living currents that tend to bypass performance halls and the throngs of people bent on copying some world or another. We copy instead of create worlds that are focused or even reliant on debate with an audience, on emotions that swell below the surface. And actually there is nothing that can reveal hidden passions better than the theater. Most often I turn to prose for guidance.  Day in and day out I find myself thinking about writers who nearly one hundred years ago described prophetically but also restrainedly the decline of the European gods, the twilight that plunged our civilization into a darkness that has yet to be illumined. I am thinking of Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust. Today I would also count John Maxwell Coetzee among that group of prophets. Their common sense of the inevitable end of the world—not of the planet but of the model of human relations—and of social order and upheaval, is poignantly current for us here and now. For us who live after the end of the world. Who live in the face of crimes and conflicts that daily flare in new places faster even than the ubiquitous media can keep up. These fires quickly grow boring and vanish from the press reports, never to return. And we feel helpless, horrified and hemmed in. We are no longer able to build towers, and the walls we stubbornly construct do not protect us from anything—on the contrary, they themselves demand protection and care that consumes a great part of our life energy. We no longer have the strength to try and glimpse what lies beyond the gate, behind the wall. And that’s exactly why theater should exist and where it should seek its strength. To peek inside where looking is forbidden.  “The legend seeks to explain what cannot be explained. Because it is grounded in truth, it must end in the inexplicable”—this is how Kafka described the transformation of the Prometheus legend.  I feel strongly that the same words should describe the theater. And it is that kind of theater, one which is grounded in truth and which finds its end in the inexplicable that I wish for all its workers, those on the stage and those in the audience, and I wish that with all my heart. Krzysztof Warlikowski Translation: Philip Boehm Supported by Theatre Communications Group and the U.S. Center of ITI

© Bartek Warzecha

Costume Drawings from "Sweet Marie"

Yes or No at the Registry Theatre

My Dinner With Casey Donovan by Sky Gilbert

Through some insane stroke of luck, gay porn star and beautiful creature Casey Donovan (Nathaniel Bacon) is coming to dinner with Calvin (Michael De Rose) at his parents' house. The only catch? Calvin's parents don't even know he's gay.

The Cabaret Company presents My Dinner with Casey Donovan, the newest work from Sky Gilbert where audiences explore a tale of sexual liberation, parental love and independence from our parents.

Stars: Mar 12, 2015 Ends: Mar 23, 2015 

Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace, 16 Ryerson Avenue, Toronto
 
Times: Wednesday - Saturday: 7:30 p.m., Sunday: 2:00 p.m. March 11 to 22nd

Make Believe Show at Nottingham Trent University...January 14 to Jan 31, 2015

http://www.designweek.co.uk/whats-on/make-believe-an-exhibition-of-theatre-design/3039649.article