EMBODIED INTERVENTIONS
Embodied Interventions is a performative platform for the research-creation projects of LePARC’s student membership that began in 2019.
The student-led event culminates in a weekend of presentations, performances, discussions, workshops and reflections to share the various projects and practices of our cluster.
2023 EDITION
Embodied Interventions 2023 includes a two week laboratory-type residency incorporating creation time, shared practice, workshops, movement practices, artistic advising, production time and performance prep.
This fourth edition was designed for artists and researchers seeking to explore new work with others, bring forward work to showcase, or share performance-based research in the form of a talk or other formats. EI is an opportunity to participate in a collective platform, culminating in a weekend of performances across LePARC performance spaces including the Fine Arts Black Box, the LePARC Residency Room and the Video Production Studio.
TIMELINE
APRIL 17- 21 IDEATION
APRIL 24-28 PRODUCTION
APRIL 29-30 PRESENTATION
Our student coordinators this year are Eija Loponen-Stephenson, Margaret Lapp, and Alastair Cavanagh.
PAST EDITIONS
2022 - THIRD EDITION
Following an intensive residency of interdisciplinary collaboration and performance creation, over ten artists and researchers shared their work in this two-day student-led showcase. The performances, installations and discussions took over various Milieux Institute spaces, inside and out over the course of several hours.
2020 - SECOND EDITION
In the spring of 2020, the LePARC planned to host the second edition of Embodied Interventions from May 4th to 10th 2020, to provoke a sharing of performance practices amongst the Concordia community and beyond. We opened a call for “instigations”: ideas, scores, prompts for creative processes, which we shared with interested students, artists and researchers of the LePARC community. Some projects were well on their way when the event was cancelled due to COVID-19, while others remained in a more embryonic stage.
In the hopes of encouraging these inspiring creative efforts in a turbulent time, event coordinators Aaron Richmond, Ayam Sabah, and Lucy Fandel proposed an alternative structure of instigations to the cluster and larger community, based on adaptable intervals of exploration.
EI INTERVALS
Members of the extended LePARC community were invited to lead embodied interventions in this new reality. The basic format began with an introductory virtual meeting session in which collaborators shared a prompt, a score, an idea, or a process. The group then decided how explorations should happen: in real time, individually, daily, weekly, virtually, at home, or along a specific site at different times. Once the duration of the prompt was over, participants reconvened for a reflective discussion and to share documentation of their exploration.
Intervals in the spring of 2020 were initiated by Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux, and lo bil with contributions from Aaron Richmond, Melina Scialom, Victoria Stanton, Olivia McGilchrist, Kasey Pocius, Lucy Fandel, Ayam Sabah, Paule Gilbert, and Xdzunúm Trejo.
2019 - FIRST EDITION
The first edition of Embodied Interventions was a whirlwind of performances, workshops and talks that took place in the Concordia Black Box, the Video Produciton Studio and throughout Milieux Spaces.
