Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society is pleased to present queer slow dance with radical thought, performed for the M:ST 8 Festival by Toronto based collaborators Alvis Choi (aka Alvis Parsley) and Heather Hermant. queer slow dance with radical thought is made possible through the generous support of Fairy Tales Presentation Society.
queer slow dance is a collaborative project that seeks to challenge the archive through interventions in white, gay male dominated space. Using the term "forequeers" to encompass the queer thinkers who came before them, the artists have created a performance that deals with issues of intimacy, the transmission of knowledge and memory, as well as the relationships between physical bodies across histories.
The performance will take place at the #1 Legion on Friday, October 21, 6:30 – 8:30pm and Sunday, October 23, 9:00 – 11:00pm. The #1 Legion is located at 116 7th Avenue SE, Calgary. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Alvis Parsley questions how their role as an artist can give life to the archive and by extension, disrupt and reinvent the history of place and space in the minds of the public. Heather Hermant made her initial start as a spoken word artist, but over the course of her practice has to come to work site-specific, and durational performance, theatre, social practice, and curation, with an interest in the intersections of land, archive, and body.
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M:ST fosters the development of performative art practices among local, national and international artistic communities through the organization and presentation of a biennial performative art festival. The festival is a collaborative endeavor between several arts organizations in Southern Alberta, a structure which allows the Festival to represent each organization’s mandate and audience, while providing opportunities for cross-disciplinary and inter-organizational exchange. The result is a unique participatory context, where artists and audience experience contemporary performative work outside of more traditional festival or gallery models.
