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Destroy Vancouver XV

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Thursday, March 12, 2015
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
8:30pm
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12am

SATURDAY MARCH 12 | DOORS 〓 8.30PM
CONCERT 〓 9PM

ADMISSION: $15 advance $20 door
(Advance tickets will be available till Friday March 11, 11:59pm)

At: SFU Woodward’s Studio D
149 W Hastings St.
Vancouver

  • Arma Agharta (LT)
  • Bill Nace and Greg Kelley (USA)
  • Katherine Kline (CA)
  • Peter Courtemanche (CA)
  • Peter Kutin (AU)

+ Selectors’ Records DJ

SUNDAY MARCH 13  〓 1PM (Free admission)

ARTIST TALK | Katherine Kline
+ Peter Kutin & Flo Kindlinger

At: Western Front
303 East 8th Ave
Vancouver, BC

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photo documentation
Destroy Vancouver 2016 excerpts

Presented by:
VIVO Media Arts Centre
www.vivomediaarts.com
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Supported by:
Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver, Province of BC, Vancouver New Music, Selectors’ Record, CiTRO, SFU Woodward’s, Western Front,  Austrian Embassy Ottawa, PK Sound, Video Out, Frans Van de Ven

Venue Accessibility

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.

Wheelchair/Walker Access

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.

Washrooms

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.

About the 
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Arma is a sound-performance artist and curator from Vilnius (Lituania). His work stands between musique concrete and DIY shamanism. Costumes and gestures work along with live electronic soundscapes improvised with soviet vintage electronics, acoustic objects and circuit bent gear. The sound performances of Arma Agharta span a broad territory between unbridled eruptions of chaotic noise and hypnotic psychedelic rituals to dadaist humour, odd bodily movements, spontaneous improvised games and the voice.

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Greg Kelley (nmperign, Heathen Shame, The BSC) and Bill Nace (Body/Head, x.o.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, Northampton Wools) first played together in Anna Rampage with Paul Flaherty & Ben Karetnick in 2006. Since that time they have performed in trios with Jake Meginsky and Chris Corsano, in quartets with Corsano & Paul Flaherty and Wally Shoup & Greg Campbell, and, starting in 2011, as a duo. They toured the East Coast/Mid-West in 2012 with Matt Krefting and released a split cassette with Krefting for the occasion on Nace’s Open Mouth imprint. Open Mouth also released an LP of their quartet with Wally Shoup & Greg Campbell in 2015. Utilizing an array of extended instrumental techniques, amplification and effects pedals, Kelley (trumpet, amplifier, pedals) and Nace(electric guitar, amplifier, pedals) have allowed themselves an extensive palette to work with and set no boundaries as to where it will bring them. Delicate sound fields may slowly unfold only to then disintegrate into waves of tumult. Tumult may then bore itself into a maze of soft refrigerators.

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Katherine Kline plays with synthesizer, tape and field recordings of psychic channeling sessions. Kline’s work can be situated on a spectrum between the nunnery and the basement, entities of light and fleshy bodies, psyche and machine. She is in the Powers, collaborates with Montreal artist Leyla Majeri, and is one half of Dreamcatcher. Kline is currently doing her doctorate in Communication Studies at Concordia, where she studies the psychoanalytic unconscious and ecological theory.

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Peter Courtemanche is a Vancouver based sound and installation artist. He works primarily in the realm of sound, radio-art, and interactive installation work. As a curator and technician at the Western Front he has worked with many established and emerging artists in the production and installation of video, audio, and computer/electronic based art. His formative, poetic works used early generation micro-computers to generate an “artificial creation machine.” This interest in technology led to many experiments interfacing the old to the new; connecting the worlds of early mechanical devices and late 19th Century inventions with modern computer control systems.

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Peter Kutin works with sound as composer, producer, sound-sculptor. Kutin realized a wide variety of works & sound-ethnological projects. Beside solo works, he collaborated with other musicians, film-& theater directors, visual artists as well as journalists; in studios, in the field and on stage. After accomplishing his latest project ‘desert-sound’ in the abandoned regions of the Atacama, he has become very interested in the resonance-patterns of glacier gaps.

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About the 
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John Brennan is a sound artist and drummer living and practicing on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Parallel to his practice as a musician, he produces sound installations that consider the relationship between the sonic memory of musical instruments, performance and improvisation. His band Kamikaze Nurse is currently recording their second full-length album, Stimuloso (2021)Mint Records. Other recent sound projects include: MO-DALE (a duo with Justin Patterson) and Last Lost Time with Gabi Dao and Elisa Ferrari. He curated Destroy Vancouver (2012-2016), a quarterly improvised music and sound art series produced by VIVO Media Arts Centre. He has presented work through Vancouver New Music, Vancouver Coastal Jazz, Western Front (Vancouver), Nanaimo Art Gallery, BEK (Bergen), Landmark (Bergen), No IDea Festival (Austin), Suoni per il Popolo (Montreal) and MUTEK (Montreal).

Other collaborators include Chris Corsano, Raven Chacon, John Dieterich, Katerina Ernst, Jacob Audrey Taves, William Hooker, DJ Olive, Greg Saunier, Marshall Trammell, Nate Wooley, and many more.

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