Stages: Drawing the Curtain

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Stages: Drawing the Curtain, Invitation

Stages: Drawing the Curtain • a series of temporary public sculptures & performances throughout Winnipeg • Featuring new work by 9 international and local artists.

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Launch Party: Friday, August 18th, 7pm to late 

Abbas Akhavan: Variations on a Monument A series of performances at sunset FOUNTAIN AT BONNYCASTLE PARK• 260 Assiniboine Avenue

Pablo Bronstein: Peony Unfurling at Various Speeds in Shopping Mall A series of dance performancesco-choreographed with Rosalie Wahlfrid FORT GARRY PLACE• 20 Fort Street

Erica Eyres: Head Site-specific sculpture / installation STOREFRONT• final location, TBA 

Kara Hamilton: Curtain Sculpture; tyndall stone AMPHITHEATER AT BONNYCASTLE PARK• 260 Assiniboine Avenue

Federico Herrero: Landscape Site-specific installationTUNNEL CONNECTING CITY HALL & CENTENNIAL CONCERT HALL• 555 Main Street, lower level

Toril Johannessen:The Invention and Conclusion of The Eye Multi-channel audio drama 
4th FLOOR OF THE HUDSON’S BAY• 450 Portage Avenue •Additional information: The audio drama will also air on CKUW Sundays: August 20th, 27th and September 3rd from 11am to 11:45am

Divya Mehra: Nobody pray for me, the road to hell is paved with good intentions (Mapping Identity: The Challenges of Immigrant Culture) Sculpture; Intacel and LED lightsVARIOUS LOCATIONS IN WINNIPEG• The artwork will be transported through the city in the evenings for the duration of the exhibition 

Krista Belle Stewart: Potato Gardens Band Site-specific installation and live performance BASEMENT OF THE HUDSON’S BAY• 450 Portage Avenue

Ron Tran: Ashes Under the Hill / Let Our Hands Grow to Hold What We Love Multiple sculpturesTHE FORKS AT THE BEACH SCAPE• 1 Forks Market Road 

Stages: Drawing the Curtain is a constellation of temporary public artworks to be launched in August 2017. This large-scale public art project asks artists to locate a site within the city of Winnipeg from which to contemplate the stage - its function as a platform; its meaning as a point of attention; and its physical design. Directed by their individual interests and material preferences, the artists will build sculptural ‘stages’ ranging in shape and form, connected as platforms for audiences to occupy, physically engage and contemplate. 

Many of the artists for Stages will invite audiences to interact with their sculptural 'stages', leaving them open for the public to step on, sit in, or perform within, while others are using already built environments as stages for choreographed and scripted performances. The artworks are still being produced and conceived, but many of the artists have identified a location and are currently defining the detailed parameters of their projects.