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Doors at 6:30 pm
Performance begins at 7pm Followed by a Q&A
FREE!
As Per Our Last is a one-night public performance that is the culmination of research conducted by Emily Carr University students Leonor Martinez and miranda firmston in the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive (CDMLA) at VIVO Media Arts Centre.
In an archive, the veil between moments in time wears palpably thin. Working amongst the boxes of the CDMLA, miranda firmston and Leonor Martinez learned to feel this veil and set out to render through performance, sound and text, the complex existence of VIVO as an archiving entity that continues to grow and shape unto itself as it has done for the last fifty years.Prioritizing passages from what the artists regard as the hidden scaffolding of the archive—the logbooks and correspondence files found in the CDMLA—their text will be spoken and its sound, passing through custom-made audio control appendages and interfaces, will repeat, re-form, warp, deteriorate and change itself through time as the artists move and interact in space. This self-fulfilling digital system models the patterns that transform the archive as it lives and breathes at the hands of those who pass through.
VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.
Miranda Firmston is an interdisciplinary media artist working with interactive and responsive sound/systems that use touch, gesture, and presence as tools for critical engagement within technologically mediated environments. Working with sound, new media, and experimental performance interfaces, their work traces the ways in which digital systems can shape, extend, and reflect embodied experiences. Miranda is currently based in Vancouver, BC on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples, where they are completing a Bachelor of Media Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Leonor (Leo) Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist engaging in video, sound and performance, telling stories through collaged field recordings, found media, and random ephemera, digital or physical, from every corner of her life. Framed against the backdrop that is her Colombian heritage, Leo’s work is in conversation with themes of childhood, queerness, family and colonial history. As of recent, her background in fine arts has brought her to reintroduce more embodied and physical forms of artmaking into her practice. She is currently completing a Bachelor in Media Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Photo credit: Angel Bolandi.
