PME-ART ”A User's Guide to Authenticity Is a Feeling”
Kanadensiskt kollektiv trasslar med politik och konst
Konst och politik i ett evigt trassel när denna kanadensiska megagrupp packar upp tjugo år av
kreativa samarbeten och skarpa framträdanden under en helkväll av performance, teori och
samtal.
PME-ART (där PME bland annat står för “Pretty Much Everything”) är ett kanadensiskt konstkollektiv
med bas i Montréal. Under tjugo år har de skapat föreställningar och framträdanden som kombinerar
musik, litteratur, bildkonst, poesi och filosofi. De ägnar sig hängivet åt vad de själva kallar sitt
“destabiliserande trassel av konst och politik”.
Nu kommer en av gruppens konstnärliga ledare, Jacob Wren, till Inkonst. För att fira PME-ARTs
tjugonde födelsedag skrev Jacob en bok om deras historia med titeln Authenticity is a Feeling. Här
presenterar han en “user’s guide” till boken om allt de gjort under de senaste två decennierna. Det är
ett ut-och-invänt konstnärssamtal, en motsägelsefull berättelse om att skapa tillsammans och en
förförisk memoar om att tro på något så sårbart och samtidigt livsviktigt som att vara sig själv i en
scenisk situation.
Jacob Wren och PME-ART har tidigare visat föreställningarna Every Song I’ve Ever Written, The DJ
Who Gave Too Much Information, och HOSPITALITY 3: Individualism Was A Mistake på Inkonst.
PME-ART (CA) undersöker den sceniska situationen med stor öppenhet gentemot publik och kreativa
samarbetspartners. De har under sina tjugo aktiva år visat sina verk i mer än femtio städer världen
över. Bakom gruppen står trion Jacob Wren, Sylvie Lachance och Richard Ducharme.
Av och med: Jacob Wren, med medvetna och omedvetna bidrag från PME-ART’s samarbetspartners
| | Kostym: Claudia Fancello | Teknik och ljus: Paul Chambers | Produktion och teknisk chef: Nikita
Bala | En samproduktion mellan PME-ART (Montréal), FTT (Düsseldorf) med stöd inom ramen för the
Alliance of International Production Houses genom the German Federal Government Commissioner
for Culture and the Media och Inkonst | Med stöd av La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines (Montréal),
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, och The Canada Council for
the Arts
Språk: Engelska
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ENG
19.00
110 mins
English
160/110
Canadian collective entangled in art and politics
Art and politics in an eternal tangle when this canadian group unpacks twenty years of
creative collaborations and peculiar shows during a night of performance, theory and
conversation.
2018 marks twenty years of PME-ART. To celebrate, co-artistic director Jacob Wren wrote a book
entitled Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART, a book he describes as “a compelling hybrid of
history, memoir and performance theory.”
But books about performance never feel quite right, or at least never feel like enough on their own.
Addressing performance requires performance. So we created this accompanying work entitled A
User’s Guide to Authenticity is a Feeling. It is an artist talk turned inside out, an artist talk that tells
more about artistic struggles and challenges than about any worldly success.
This performance will also document the reactions PME-ART’s past and current collaborators had to
the book. What they agreed with and what they found unfair, demonstrating how our shared artistic
history creates collaborative dynamics that are complex. This performance asks: why do we do it, why
do we continue to believe so stubbornly in the fragile but essential act of “being yourself in a
performance situation,” and how do we continue to hope against hope that our destabilizing tangle of
art and politics might still, in some small way, change the world.
http://www.pme-art.ca/en
PME-ART (CA) —which refers, among other things, to Pretty Much Everything—is a loosely defined
interdisciplinary group whose explorations and innovations over the last 20 years have given rise to
unusual performances that combine music, literature, visual art, poetry, and philosophy, based on
both theoretical and practical research.
Open, setting no artistic limits, and driven by social concerns and critical reflection, the core of
PME-ART is composed of two artistic directors, Jacob Wren and Sylvie Lachance, and an
administrative director, Richard Ducharme. They are constantly partnering with other artists to devise
new collaborative projects. Their work examines the performance situation with considerable
openness to both artistic co-creators and audience.
The work of PME-ART examines the performance situation with considerable openness to both
artistic co-creators and audience. PME-ART has presented in over fifty cities in North-America,
Europe, and Japan. Past creations presented at Inkonst include Every Song I’ve Ever Written, The DJ
Who Gave Too Much Information, and HOSPITALITY 3: Individualism Was A Mistake.
By: Jacob Wren, with the explicit or implicit contributions from PME-ART’s collaborators | Costumes:
Claudia Fancello | Technical Direction and Lighting: Paul Chambers | Production and Technical
Manager: Nikita Bala | Coproduction: PME-ART (Montréal), FTT (Düsseldorf) supported within the
framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the German Federal Government
Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Inkonst, with the support of La Chapelle Scènes
Contemporaines (Montréal), the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Conseil des arts de
Montréal, and The Canada Council for the Arts.
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[Performance] [Teater] Hemsida: http://www.inkonst.com
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