BEACON - Live Sound Performance by Andrea Roberts (AKA VOR), with Visuals by Doreen Girard.

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Andrea Roberts and Doreen Girard, "Beacon," nd

Winnipeg-based artist, Doreen Girard will accompany Roberts during this one night performance. Working in the realm of expanded cinema, like Roberts, Girard pushes the mediums she works with to their limits. Materially, she incorporates a variety of elements and approaches, often drawing from archives and using experimental methods, including analog technologies, and performance.

For BEACONS, Roberts and Girard will animate one of Plug In’s gallery spaces where Roberts is currently exhibiting a series of new work called The Stridents, part the group exhibition Superimposition: Sculpture and Image. Roberts’s work in the exhibition including The Stridents 1,2 & 3, and Mirror for Reclusesincorporate her ongoing investment in representing the layered complexity of collective and individual social perceptions in the distilled forms of sound, image and sculpture. Looking at a medieval order of nuns, whose only contact with the outside world is mediated by screens and sound, the strident references the noisy parts of speech. 

For this performance, Roberts will continue her interest in drawing attention to the ways sound mediates life. Through forms of navigation and emergency communication like sonar blips, foghorns, and crosswalk signals, BEACONS harnesses the acoustic phenomenon of phase and oscillation to play with the ways we find, and lose, each other through sound.