Date: Sunday, February 2nd, 2025
Time: 12:30-2pm
- 12:30-12:50 - Arrival and exhibition
- 12:50-1:40 - Performance
- 1:40-2:00 - Informal Q&A
Location: Morrow (910 Richards St SUITE 204, Vancouver, BC V6B 3C1)
Many thanks to Odd Meridian Arts for its generous donation of their venue and to PuSh.
Light refreshments will be served (non-alcoholic)
* Please note seating is very limited. *
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Please join us for an "unplugged" excerpt sharing from The Conditions, a new multi-disciplinary work created by Lucy M. May | Looumms. Envisioned for an art gallery and featuring master improvisers from distinct disciplinary backgrounds, this hybrid performance-exhibition is a collaboration between visual artists Fran Chudnoff, Ja James Britton Johnson, Maisie O’Brien, and Lucy M. May; dance by Lucy, Fran and Ja; with lighting by Jon Cleveland, music created and performed by Patrick Conan and Amy Macdonald; and costuming by Pax. At Morrow, a pared-down team of four artists will perform a 45-minute glimpse into the 1h40 min work that asks...
Can feeling be a way of knowing?
Reaching into the sensory present, six artists unfold fields of speech, music, and movement. They spill across clean floors and walls as light swirls through inky shadows. Fabulations pry open channels between the bewildering envelope of the world and subjective inner landscapes. Nostalgic and fraught topographies are mapped out on cover songs and microtonal drones. The air is whipped into weather. Knocking at the gallery’s white walls, The Conditions spreads the body across two inquiries: is the space a climate-controlled institution estranging us from nature and body? Or is it a temple for sensing and feeling? Beneath concrete foundations, the bedrock shifts.
Weaving improvisation, the physicality of emotion, and felt-relationships to land, The Conditions unfurls from Lucy’s close relationship to her homeland in Wolastokuk, her reckoning with settler origins, and a desire to venture deeper into the complexities and subtleties of feeling through intimacy with others. In a contained space, the public is invited to listen, gaze, wander, and engage with the substances of attention through somatic
portals.
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Access: The primary entrance to Morrow studio is accessed from Richards Street via one flight of nine stairs. Elevator access is available upon request via a secondary alley entrance. Please note below if you would like to request elevator access, or to let us know of any other access needs.
