PillOry

Nicole Lynn Deschaine
Performing July 25th

“Hi I’m Nikki, this will be my first time doing performance art. I’m a Visual Artist, Trans Activist, and community member of the Glad Day Family and Church Street.”

Sadie Berlin
Performing July 26th

Berlin is a theatre and performance artist who documents how social intolerance and oppression shape ever-mutable and fluctuating aspects of self-definition. In her sometimes racialised work, Berlin uses her many intersections to reflect cis-straight whiteness back to audiences. This telegraphing of oppression as an infection that engraves itself onto and inside marginalised bodies, interrogates notions of free will and freedom to create/conjure/imagine without boundaries. The gifts in the added textures and modalities of marginalisation have in them the constraints of oppression, and, how the marginal and marginalised artist navigates this complex path is a major preoccupation of Berlin’s work.

Johannes Zits
Performing July 26th

My art invites a questioning of our preconceptions of nature that continue to be imposed by dominant histories and reductive, binaristic constructs. It is more than a passive backdrop in which we live and take from. Like the rest of nature, a tree is a responsive and creative body and should not be fixed simply in the realm of the material and sublime.

To achieve more immersive conditions in my encounters with trees, I take time to observe, experience, contemplate and share. These extended moments open up spaces for reflective, as well empathetic actions and interactions.

Tess Martens
Performing July 26th

Martens completed her Masters of Fine Art at the University of Waterloo in 2018. She is also part of the programming committee for CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum of Kitchener & Area) and has interviewed artists for arts and culture blog, www.culturefancier.com. She has participated in performance art residencies and performed internationally. In her art practice, personal experiences are re-contextualized through performances. These performances draw from memories that are simultaneously nostalgic, shameful and based in fear. There is an attempt to fight off shame and guilt associated with exposing oneself in her performances. Humour is often used to invite and engage the viewer.

Simla Civelek
Performing July 26th

“I don’t want realism, I want magic.” I came across this quote recently, once again, years after reading A Streetcar Named Desire for the first time. Things feel inherently different now. An outside world in turmoil and an inner world with angst, fear, and weariness. Blanche makes more sense, or rather, I understand her need. When I have the cynical question of “why make performance,” I also have the inclination to start from the present moment to find an answer, or rather, to look for an answer. As realism can never be a match for magic.

Pi*llOry is so excited to be back up and running. In the new normal, we will adapt and continue to work with all our might. These amazing, courageous performers warm my heart and I am so excited to present...

Sheri Osden Nault
Performing July 26th

Osden Nault is an artist of Michif and mixed European descent. Situated within personal and political contexts, their art practice and research are grounded in q***r, feminist, and Indigenous world-views. They strive to elicit a sense of social and ecological responsibility and intimacy on a damaged planet, recently focusing on connections between bodies, sexuality, and nature. Recent exhibitions include Where the Shoreline Meets the Water at the ArQuives, Toronto (2020); Shapeshifters curated by Amanda Amour-Lynx, Toronto (2019); Off-Centre at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina (2019); Fix Your Hearts or Die at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2019).

We are getting verry excited for Pi*llOry part 3 next week. Come on out and support q***r artist, its going to be a great night!!!!!

Introducing the Pi*llOry Part 3 performers! The event will take place Thursday March 19th, 7-10 at the Roseneath Theater.
lo bil, Madeleine Lychek, Jillian Groening, Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas, [ field ] Coman P**n & Brian Smith, Holly Timpener and Randa Reda
Hosted by Emma Qulaghasi

Racquel Rowe:

Is an interdisciplinary artist from the island of Barbados who currently resides in Canada. Rowe explores the relationship between the history of the marginalized black female body and bodily fluids as structures that are both othered, exotic, abject and vessels of pleasure at the same time. The work takes shape through performance, painting, and sculpture.
Racquel Rowe will be performing a work called Washing Rice, a durational work in which the artist attempts to individually wash the grains in a bag of rice, this arduous task usually results in failure with the artist either being too tired to complete the tasks or getting frustrated and quitting. This work deals with myth, folklore and Barbadian traditions that are still very prevalent today in and around black communities when it comes to food preparation and labour.

Website:
https://www.racquelrowe.ca