𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧 / Pam Tzeng

𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 / April 27, 2022 – May 14, 2022

𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳.

TNG will be open to the public Thursday through Saturday from 10AM to 6PM. Fridays, TNG will be open from 2PM to 7:30PM. Wednesdays, the gallery will be open for folks to visit the space to see the ephemera of the performances. 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲.

If you don’t feel comfortable visiting TNG in person, we are happy to offer free digital tours via Zoom. If you’d like to organize a tour please contact Alexa Bunnell, our Communications & Outreach Coordinator, at alexa@thenewgallery.org and we will reach out to you with a meeting link.

𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 /

Under the bright yellow glow of SHED, time suspends for an alchemy of movement, sound, animate costumes and light. Featuring a collection of time-based moving portraits, SHED | knowing each other as different and the same holds space for the multiplicity and humanity of bodies of culture¹. The immersive performance installation invites pause. A slowing down and an enlivening into presence for an otherworldly experience.

𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩
𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘶𝘯𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧
𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦.

SHED is an invitation to notice the subtle ways our bodies perceive, receive and relate to an “other”. To witness the assumptions and imaginings that consciously and/or unconsciously colour our experience of difference. To remember that every body inhabits an internal life as vivid and complex as our own.

The collection of choreographies by Tzeng includes a duet created and performed with experimental musician FOONYAP, and five solo portraits created for, with and danced by Cindy Ansah, Cory Beaver, Kara Bullock, Alèn Martel and Mpoe Mogale. Sound, costumes and light manifest as energetic extensions of the body, spirit and land. The design elements of each work emerged from tender and nurturing exchanges with sound designers FOONYAP, Jiajia Li, Num and Darren Young, costume collaborator Alison Yanota, sodium light designer Nicolas Brunet-Beaulieu and lighting designer Jonathan Kim.

Each portrait draws from the intimate and vast inner landscapes of the performers’ embodied values, memories and lived experiences. Each exists as a testimony of the beauty and resilience of bodies of culture.

𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲:

From Pam: I replace the language and idea of “People of colour” with “Bodies of Culture” as reclamation of the inherent wisdom of the body and the pieces of the experiences of racialized people that have been stolen, stripped away, and invisibilized by white body supremacy. Bodies of Culture comes from my practice in Somatic Abolition guided by the work of author, therapist and racialized trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem.

SHED is made possible with the support of Dancers’ Studio West Artist in Residence Program, The New Gallery 2022 Main Space Program, Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, Calgary Animated Objects Society.