PuSh Blog

Keynote: Dawn Jani Birley

November 13, 2018

PRESENTED WITH SFU FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION, ART AND TECHNOLOGY Industry Series events are geared to performing arts industry professionals and practitioners whether they are artists, producers or presenters; emerging, mid-career or established. Industry Series events […]

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Zvizdal (Chernobyl – so far so close)

November 13, 2018

Members of the Antwerp-based art collective BERLIN, together with journalist Cathy Blisson, spent five years filming Nadia and Pétro Opanassovitch Lubenoc, an elderly couple living deep within the irradiated Chernobyl exclusion zone in a place […]

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Muted

November 13, 2018

PRESENTED WITH MUSIC ON MAIN When noted violinist Monica Germino got the shattering news that she may have to stop performing in order to protect her hearing, composer Michael Gordon would have none of it. […]

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Race Cards

November 13, 2018

This is an installation. It is open January 23–February 2 from 12pm–8pm.  “Why do people assume that racism will just passively die out if we wait long enough?” That’s number 307 of 1,000 questions that […]

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PALMYRA

November 08, 2018

In this prizewinning piece, the set is almost bare and broken crockery is the main prop; PALMYRA may seem slight at first glance, but it’s about as rich in implication as one could ask for. The […]

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100 Keyboards

November 08, 2018

In this captivating performance, sound artist ASUNA takes battery-powered, analogue keyboards and uses them to create waves of overlapping notes: the Moiré effect of superimposed patterns, here used musically. The instruments are placed in the […]

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Kids

November 08, 2018

PRESENTED WITH THE DANCE CENTRE Liu Kuan-Hsiang goes for broke in this ecstatic tribute to his late mother; the dancer and choreographer clearly has a lot to get off his chest, and his catharsis is […]

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Blind Cinema

November 21, 2017

Blind Cinema

From theatre artist Britt Hatzius, here’s a chance to see the world through someone else’s eyes. Audience members are seated in a theatre, with a row of children behind them, and together they experience a […]

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