We live in a world grappling with rapid change. Our cities, the land, our oceans, the sense of security and stability in our environments, are all under threat. This especially impacts upon our sense of “place”, where our memories, history, geography, spirituality, stories and routines stand on shifting sands, controlled and yet forgotten, fragmented and absent, disappeared but alive in anonymity.
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When we decenter from myopic notions of identity, we discover our humanity. What borders are created, what fracturing of human and non-human ecologies, what violence perpetrated in the name of greed and ideology form counterpoints to acts of collective resistance to isolation, silence and ethically blind consumerism.
Despite the restrictions and exploitations of militarism and globalism, our movements, sounds and rituals continue to unfold. What are they? How do they re-invite us into community and symbiosis? Is there an artistic bridge of expression and witnessing that can trigger transformation and connection? Who will hear, see and feel us when we are not here? What of the ones before and after us? In the debris of exploding and imploding marginalization, how is art itself a living ‘space between home(s)’?
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In our research and development process, we creatively activate an interstitial realm that is bridged by digital platforms such as Facebook Messenger, WeTransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive and SoundCloud.
Our “Art Conversations” approach begins with one of us creating a prompt through the creation of an inter/disciplinary art work that reflects a response to a local experience. This work incubates and is a catalyst for one or two other artistic responses. Thus the “Art Conversations” can expand like a chain or web of calls and responses.
In this current project, we have used our mediated “Art Conversations” approach to refract and respond to our local and personal contexts during the COVID pandemic.
about
The Triangle Collective consists of Olga Barrios (Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia), Edgardo Moreno (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) and Coman Poon (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
As im/migrants, each one of us has come to Canada at different moments in our lives and for varied reasons. Ignited as an interdisciplinary artistic collective through a commission from the Vanguardia Dance Festival, the co-creative and trans/personal conversations we are having today unravels and interweaves the different paths and realities that we have traveled.
As a collective, we conjoin the movements, aesthetics and sonorities of a seasoned choreographer, a visual/performance artist and a musician/composer in order to embark on a new creations.
