Installation 13 h - 22 h, performance 16 h Ste-catherine street (corner beaudry)
Installation and theatrical performance PINOCCHIO # 10
The performance and installation Pinocchio # 10 is a black comedy, an inversion of the Pinocchio fable. In Carlos Collodi’s original story, the little boy made of wood desperately wanted to become human; in this installation/ performance, the little ‘doll’ is born a real girl, and rather than embrace her humanity, she desperately wants to become made of plastic, exactly like everyone else she sees in her life. Pinnochio#10 is separated into three “acts”: Birth, Life and Ultimate Plastification. Pinnochio#10 tells a modern horror tale from the confines of a giant Mattel box through the morbid curiosity and innocent eyes of early childhood. Surrounding her is an installation of other toy boxes occupied by dolls and other toys. Life size children’s dolls or actors will “live” in strategically positioned boxes. In each box, the stories of a child labourers or child sex workers are told. In some cases the stories of the child labourer are in line with products they are surrounded by.
Collaborators : Kathy Daehler, Amy Sobol (Mask ON!) et Antonio
Bavaro. Conception sonore par Caitlyn Loney (Free Love Fenner)
BIOS
ALEX STORM >
Alex Storm (Alex Wysocki-Najar) is an artist living & working in Montreal. He has written and directed a feature film, Violet, as well as a series of shorts. He has directed the well-received comedy Lenny & Reno (Prospero). He has also written and directed three plays and worked as a production designer. He currently works in communications & fundraising for an HIV/ AIDS community organization. At ACCM he created the "Illumination" series of installations for World AIDS Day beginning in 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4o9_CBSajg. He recently completed a campaign in promoting testing among men who have sex with men, and, a promo campaign for their art auction, ARTSIDA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gychfWlveb0.
KATHY DAEHLER >
Kathy Daehler is a founder and member of the Mask On theatre Company. She has studied clown for 3 years.
AMY SOBOL >
Born in London, Amy Sobol works and lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She graduated from John Abbott College where she completed a three-year Professional Theatre Program. Amy Sobol is a founder and member of Mask-On Theatre Company and has starred in several plays.
CAITLIN LONEY >
Caitlin Loney (AKA Azilda) is an analog recordist, video artist, singer, songwriter, and co-founding member of the band Freelove Fenner (2005). She is an MA student and research assistant in Media Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. Her research interests include the history of recording techniques, creative studio practice, and gender and sound. In November 2010, she has been panellist at Intersections Conference, grouping PhD Communications Programs from Université de Montréal, Concordia and UQAM. She currently works as a Volunteer Development Agent at Aids Community Care Montreal.
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