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Alexander Wilson (01ek) is an interdiciplinary artist, musician, theatre director, and theaorist based in Montreal, Canada. He composes electro-acoustic music, produces experimental videos, interactive media and architectural installations, directs theatrical events, and has for a long time been interested in synchronicity, total art, and immersive environments. Alexander Wilson earned his Master's in Fine Arts at Concordia University, in 2007, in the Open Media dicipline. He composed the music for the Parabolik Guerilla's A Ship to Namuh as well as programmed a system (in Max/MSP/Jitter) which synchronizes the sound, light, and movement of the actors (using sensors embeded in their costumes), creating dynamic relations between them. In 2006, he presented the ambitious, Social Reproduction Machine (version 3), at the White Cubes on the Move group exhibition: a technological micro-theatre installed in the back of a rented moving van, parked in down-town Montreal. In 2002, he presented at the Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT) the electroacustic/techno/visual performances Sync! (in the context of the FCMM, Ex-Centris and SAT, Brussels and Berlin). His most recent architectural media/performance installation, Hinge_Dimension, with Karmen Franinovic (zero-th.org) has been commissioned by the Enter_ festival (http://www.enternet.org.uk/unknownTerritories) in Cambridge, UK, in collaboration with Essex Dance (April 2007). His project with Seth Poulin, a three-video-channel, suround sound, audio-visual installation, Decay Line, will be showing at Elektra Festival 8, in May 2007. In the last years, Alexander has realized many videos and installations inspired from the performances of Parabolik Guerilla, such as the Social Reproduction Machine (version 2) (interactive video-installation presented at the gallery Bourget, 2006), Genesis: Three Magi (Centre SKOL, 2005), Execution (Centre SKOL 2005) and Anti-Sacrifice (presented at the "Amsterdam Film Experience" festival in October 2006). In 2001, he presented the interactive video installation Dance with me at the SAT. Alexander also presents solo concerts of his electro-acoustic music in venues in Montreal and abroad, notably at the Mutek festival (June 2006). In March 2007, his debut CD, "Suicide Prevention Record", will be released by Eric Mattson's record label Oral (www.oral.qc.ca). Alexander is half of the experimental music duo, Élan d'Amérique, with Alexandre St-Onge. His music appears in Vault (Festival des films du monde de Montréal, 2000) and Fur (Coma films 2000) by Seth Poulin, La Planque (K-Films Amérique 2001-2002) feature film by Thierry Gendron and Alexandre Chartrand, and has licenced music to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has worked professionally, giving technical and creative assistance to artists like Bill Vorn, kondition pluriel, and Chris Salter, on robotic installations and technologically-enhanced dance and theatre projects, presented in Montreal, Banff, Germany and France. |
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Mélanie Verville has a Master's in theatre at l'Université du Québec a Montréal. During her studies, she engaged with the question of alterity as it is experienced through art, the body, myth and symbolic theatre. Her major directorial debut, A Ship to Namuh, presented at the Studio-theatre Alfred Laliberté (2005), was the Parabolik Guerilla's first full-scale play, and was inspired by this artistic approach. Parallel to her activities with the collective, Mélanie has created and participated in two performances Je suis comme je suis inspired by the poet Jacques Prévert (2002), and La Famille Popov (2003), both presented at the Productions Nathalie Derome studios, in the context of Collimateur performance series, which she helped organize. She played in Vous qui habitez le temps by Valère Novarina, directed by Amélie Dumoulin at the Studio Claude-Gauvreau (2004). More recently, she has also worked with the collective La Gran Marcha de los Muñecones in Lima, Peru, collaborating in the production of two theatrical events: Señor Agua and El carrusel de la abundancia, as well as giving Butoh workshops to the actors of the group.
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Yannick Ross has studied visual arts at l'Université du Québec a Montréal. His fields of interest are painting, performance, the conception and creation of immersive environments, sets, costumes, and props for the theatre. As painter, he had his first solo show PlastikoSpiritoKitsch (2000) at the Musée de la Côte-Nord, in Sept-Îles. He participated with Constanza Camelo in the performances Chutes (2000-01) in various spaces of artistic diffusion in Montréal, as well at the Lieu in Québec city, in the context of the Biennale des couvertes (2002). For the Sync! (2002) project of Alexander Wilson at the SAT, Yannick created short video and performances. He has also participated in the performance Famille Popov of Mélanie Verville presented in the Collimateur series (2003). With Kathleen Wilson he has co-directed Requiem (2003), Alliance et naissance (2004) at the "Bunker", Parabolik Guerilla's space for artistic exploration, and Encore la mort! (2005) at the Réserve faunique de Mastigouche. He has participated in Butoh workshops with Geneviève Martin (2004), as well as Japanese Butoh dancer Kinya «Zulu» Tsuruyama (Fisherman's Art Factory YAN-SHU) (2006-2007). |
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Kathleen Wilson is at once actress, sociologists, and art theoretician. She is currently in the final year of her master's thesis in sociology at Concordia University, tackling questions of the imaginary and creativity in aesthetic theory. She has participated in the series of performances Chutes (2000-01) with Constanza Camelo, as well as Alexander Wilson's Sync! project. Kathleen has created and played in the theatrical performances Requiem (2003), Alliance et naissance (2004), and Encore la mort! (2005) in collaboration with Yannick Ross; Grosse Nasen (2005) with Axel Mangelsdorf, and Nostalgia (shadow theatre, 2005) with Mélanie Verville, all presented in the "Bunker", space for artistic exploration. She has followed a number of Butoh workshops, namely with Martine Viale (2005-2006); Tadashi Endo at the Potsdam Fabrik, Berlin (2006); Minako Seki at the Tanz Fabrik, Berlin (2006); and Imre Thronmann at the Theatrehaus Mitte, Berlin (2006). |