Roadworks : Performance Festival and Exhibition

Saturday July 27
WEEPING BODY site-specific performance tableaus Louise Liliefeldt My work is predominately concerned with the cultural conventions of spectatorship and the links between expanded emotional/psychological states and physical experience. The politics of identity, especially as it intersects with issues of gender and race, run as a base line through all my work. I mean that I am a woman and (for lack of a better term) 'of color' and so these two points always play a role in the meaning of each image I create. Aesthetics, context and duration are important considerations in my work and, as in the case of Weeping Body, are physically enduring. In the curiosity and confusion of the public realm I like to create stasis. I attempt to slow time by taking one image and prolong it. Weeping body uses low-motion action, repetition, stasis and tension. Weeping Body is about the blood sweat and tears that we all endure. It is a sad and quiet piece, but through the actions of the body and the determination of the mind that allow the body to continue, strength will prevail. BIOGRAPHY Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Louise Liliefeldt is a performance artist and painter. She is currently on the board of Pleasure Dome and is a co-founder of 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art*. She has presented her work across Canada as well as in the U.S., Poland, and Turkey, and will be presenting a new performance in Cardiff, Wales in May 2003. At the beginning of this same year, Liliefeldt has a temporary position teaching Performance Art at the University of Toronto.		Louise Liliefeldt Performance: Halifax Photo: Istvan Kantor
		Susan Kelly Are We There Yet?, 2002
Susan Kelly Are We There Yet? 'What is this land, please?' asked Bessie. 'It's the Roundabout Land - I should have thought any one would have guessed that. You can't get away from it. It goes round and round, always and only stops once in a blue moon.' When we get on a boat where do we hope to end up? As a tourist, migrant or explorer what is our final destination? Are we searching for refuge? An imagined utopia? A sanctuary or a promised land of prosperity and new beginnings? In Are We There Yet? I will commandeer a tourist ferry in Toronto's Harbour Front and navigate a route that traverses real and imagined texts, stories and locations. All aboard! BIOGRAPHY Susan Kelly was born in Kilquiggan, Ireland. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and an M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Leeds, UK. From 1998 to 2001, Kelly lived and worked in New York, where she participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Programme, the World Trade Center's 91st floor studio residency and the Sixteen Beaver Street Collective. Kelly's work has been included in exhibitions at Art in General and the Kent Gallery, New York, The Brewster Project, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Views exhibition. Kelly currently resides in the UK and is working towards a Ph.D at Goldsmith's College London and on projects for the Contemporary Museum, Skopje, Macedonia and The Lenin Museum, Tampere Finland.