Craftsmanship

Description:

Participating students and recent alumni from Emily Carr University of Art + Design shared insights developed in collaboration with visiting artist Itziar Okariz through Craftsmanship, a pair of workshops investigating performance both in its specificity and at the limits that define it.

Drawing from Okariz’s performance Dream Diary, which uses dreams as a score, the workshops combined practical exercises that explored the body as a sign and language in its positional and performative dimensions, alongside new proposals developed collaboratively. 

The participants were Parnian Anaa, Carol Diaz, Shelly Kositsky, Hyein Lee, Erin McCluskey, Luigi Puildo, Jude Zuniga Rodgers, Mathilde Rohr, and Kristy Zhou.

The open rehearsal revealed experiments, fragments, and performative sketches that offered a glimpse into the ideas and processes emerging from the workshops.

Presented in partnership with Libby Leshgold Gallery and Emily Carr University of Art + Design. This project was funded in part by the Government of Canada.