In Flash Forward, creator and performer interrogates feminist culture unearthing connections between art and everyday life. Sampling gestures, video, and popular music, she delves into an emotionally fraught terrain of how the female body is looked at, from both the vantage point of the viewer and the one being viewed.
Rachel Thorne Germond
Rachel Thorne Germond’s most recent photographs, paintings, and drawings are accompanied by performed monologue and audience interaction. Using notebooks, video images, small canvases—some framed on the walls and spread throughout the space—Germond will immerse viewers visually and viscerally.
Jil Guyon
Jil Guyon’s cinematic short performance-videos explore the contours of grief and transcendence through ritualized gesture. In each creation, a lone protagonist is driven by unconscious forces into an unexpected environment. Her defining black dress, heels, and unfurling belt form a visual leitmotiv that sets the stylistic and emotional tone throughout the series of works. Archetypal subtexts—the movie star; the femme fatale; the survivor; the lonely wanderer—arise and dissolve, creating a symbolic arena for the investigation of female agency in the wake of loss.
Karen, Rachel and Jil have been meeting through NDA’s Work Session once a month and are excited to share this work that is coming out of those sessions.
“Congratulations on your Performance Mix #34: Remotely Yours initiative. I hope you all feel delighted with the experience. I must admit that it challenged me to do something a little bit out of my zone. But I am quite happy with the outcome. The first project featuring my son! It will be an unforgettable moment when we will look back at it in a few years.”
– Mélanie Demers
New Dance Alliance
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