Spaces of Resonance
Performance
50 min
2025
PHI Center
Taking place from November 6, 2024, to March 9, 2025, in the Foundation’s Education Room, this project Spaces of Resonance runs parallel to the exhibition Laure Prouvost: Oma-je. For its duration, My-Van Dam has conducted research with a group of performers, seeking to integrate into their gestures objects created by the public to make visible the ties that bind us, and reveal the relationships that constitute us.
Dam’s research process for this performance echoes her work, which constantly navigates between different disciplines, ranging from performance to sculpture, installation, video art, and drawing. Much like Laure Prouvost’s multidisciplinary work, Dam’s approach is based on the fluidity and malleability of techniques, and is marked by a particular sensitivity to the body. While the body is present in her videos and performances, it surpasses the limits of the image to become the work’s primary site: a place to invest in and explore beyond the obvious—a space where ideas, feelings, emotions, and traumas may settle and resonate.
- Daniel Fiset
Credits :
Artistic Director: My-Van Dam
Choreography: My-Van Dam with Miranda Chan, Aurélie Ann Figaro, Jeimy Oviedo and Nicole Jacobs
Performers : Aurélie Ann Figaro, Jeimy Oviedo Quesada and Nicole Jacobs
Genderless costume conception and creation : Rad Hourani
Voice and son assistant director : Gabrielle HB
Curator : Daniel Fiset
Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, the Montreal Arts Council, the Rad Hourani Foundation and the PHI foundation for their support.