Entre Chein et Loup with Plastic Orchid Factory – Projection Design [2022/2023]
Montreal Arts Interculturels
In this solo work, James Gnam embodies multiple layers of the old French “dog and wolf” expression to expose his process of making a solo during a pandemic, but that is not about the pandemic.
Walking at Night by Myself by Nancy Tam – Live Projection Design [2018/2019/2021/2022]
Music on Main, Fox Cabaret, IndieFest, OpenEars
an interdisciplinary collaboration between costume design, projection design, choreographic design, and live-performed octophonically spatialized sound design-responds to the notion of synthesis by utilizing moiré, the interference pattern perceived by the human brain when two repetitive patterns of similar frequencies are overlaid on top of one another. It is also an experimentation in conjuring horror (the cinematic genre) without speaking characters nor plot. Two female forms wander through disquieting and abstracted nocturnal scenes offered by sound and visual design.
K BODY AND MIND by A Wake of Vultures – Lighting Designer [2020]
The Shadbolt
A new work of science-fiction created by Vancouver-based interdisciplinary performance collective A Wake of Vultures, led by Siminovitch Prize Protégé Conor Wylie. Originally planned as a live theatre performance, K BODY AND MIND has been re-envisioned as an episodic miniseries for viewing at home. Blending overloaded 90s anime and cyberpunk aesthetics with an off-kilter and mesmerizing minimalist performance style, K BODY AND MIND is an impossible sci-fi epic performed by two bodies in an abandoned 100-year-old theatre.
are we not drawn onward to new era – Performer/Creator [2018]
Shooting Gallery Performance Cabaret
Piece for performer, led lights, tape players and golden Eagle statue. ‘New Era’ is a cross-wired fever dream of conspiracy and functioning. It is a plot of points full of holes, desperately drawing lines. It tries to build a narrative out of fragments and yet is a caution against making sense of non-sense.
Decoy by Barbara Adler and ten thousand wolves – Projection Designer [2018]
Chutzpah Festival, Fox Cabaret
A musical journey Decoy, weaving together meticulously crafted folk songs with a poetic narrative. Live music by an 8-piece band, projection and object theatre combine to tell a story about the power of artifice to bring us closer to something real!
PKD Workshow by A Wake of Vultures – Writer/Performer [2014]
Shift 1Act Festival, The Cultch
March 2nd 1974 Philip K Dick, science fiction writer, modern day Cassandra, and amphetamine philosopher, has a moment of existential gestalt. This fractional experience tore away the veil of perception and he was flooded with sensorial, conceptual and perceptual data. 2-3-74 as he came to call this moment and its aftershocks so overthrew his concept of being that for the remaining 30 years of his life he undertakes it’s contemplation, analysis and interrogation. The result of this work is almost 8000 pages of notes and theories, which in 2011, years after his death, was edited and published by his friends in the book The Exegesis of Philip K Dick.
For PKD Workshow this book is the bible.