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Feet on The Ground | A Participatory Group Performance Art Collaboration

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Join us for this special performance, part of the grunt gallery's exhibition, #callresponse.

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Part of the grunt gallery's exhitibion #callresponse, the Faculty of Culture + Community has invited Maria Hupfield, Esther Neff, and IV Castellanos to Emily Carr for a special participatory performance of Feet on The Ground.

October 28, 2016
1:30 - 3:50pm
Motion Capture Studio, Room 285e
Seating is limited, RSVP to pluriversitas@gmail.com.

Please note: the grunt gallery will be filming/photographing this participatory performance. By attending this event, you consent to your image being used by the grunt gallery for promotional purposes.

Feet on The Ground is a participatory group performance art collaboration on how to decolonize yourself featuring a custom made toolbox designed by the artists. Using a combination of individual and collective actions the artists will demo and invite participation by the audience to empower the absurd and irrational, using items from the tool box. Conducted as an ongoing series of workshop style performances across multiple venues this project is based on survival strategies with politically minded performance artists. Audience members will be encouraged to contribute everyday items to the toolbox and guided on how to assemble their own tools for decolonization. A take away handout will accompany this performance. Objects in the toolbox are comprised of an assortment of items including mirrors, folded survival blankets, surveyor tape, sharpies, rulers, and lipstick. Unlike the military term “boots on the ground” the title Feet on The Ground is one where the liberation of the undressed foot takes priority over combat.

Feet on The Ground is presented in partnership with #callresponse. Strategically centering Indigenous women as vital presences across multiple platforms, #callresponse is a multifaceted project which includes a website, social media platform, touring exhibition and catalogue. The project brings together five local art commissions by Indigenous women artists from across Canada, including Christi Belcourt, Maria Hupfield, Ursula Johnson, Tania Willard and Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory. Each artist has invited a guest to respond to their work, including Isaac Murdoch, IV Castellanos and Esther Neff, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Marcia Crosby and Tanya Tagaq.

Use the hashtag #callresponse to get involved in the conversation!