Bridget Moser, Steve Roggenbuck, oualie frost, Allison Hrabluik, Salote Tawale: What if we were alive
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The Bows 2001B 10 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T3C 0K4

Allison Hrabluik, "What if we were alive," 2018
Curated by Natasha Chaykowski
Opening reception and performance by Bridget Moser
Saturday, September 22, 3 – 6 pm
This Poem Does Not Help Me at All is a collection of short works that take on multiple forms and shift unpredictably between performative modes, texts, and sounds. Seemingly improvised but in fact carefully scripted, these hybrid works feature bizarre interactions with everyday inanimate objects, abstract body movements, and absurd monologues. Moving between states of criticality, humour, and emotion, the resulting performance is at turns entertaining, sometimes tender and often, bewildering.
Untitled Art Society main space
Performance by Steve Roggenbuck
Saturday, October 6, 2018, 9 pm
Theatre Junction Grand Co-presented with M:ST Performative Art Festival
What if we were alive is a group exhibition of video and performance works by Bridget Moser, Steve Roggenbuck, oualie frost, Allison Hrabluik and Salote Tawale. The works in this exhibition variably consider the conundrums, tenderness, triumph, loss and exquisite strangeness of being a human. From the absurdity of life’s everyday rituals and the inherent pathos of hope, to the sincerity of love and the necessary loneliness of life, these works each oscillate between the profoundly idiosyncratic nature of experience and the threads of universality that foreground what it means to be human.