QCC - PERFORMANCE

Our Lady of the Vapours / Gargorge

8:30 PM: Our Lady of the Vapours - Luke Maddaford 9:00 PM: Gargorge - Viché-Boul Ra

8:30PM: Our Lady of the Vapours - Luke Maddaford

Our Lady of the Vapours is a project exploring desire, placemaking and optimism, encouraging viewers to imagine Queer space with infinite possibility. Paying homage to Saskatchewan’s Queer history, Our Lady of the Vapours guides viewers through a bathhouse in the collective imagination.
Our Lady of the Vapours consists of: 
- a takeaway keychain bottle-opener 
- a publication featuring a brief history of Saskatchewan bathhouses and vignettes of a speculative bathhouse 
- a fifteen minute performance of the bathhouse vignettes

Luke’s performance is 15 to 20 minutes.

Immediately followed by:

9:00 PM: Gargorge - Viché-Boul Ra 

Gargorge is a durational work and practice that generates a creature-like figure named the Gargazu. The Gargazu is a guardian primarily charged with the creation and maintenance of a gap–a Gorge–in efforts to build a physical and psychological distance from a world around it. This work is birthed both as a virtuosic artistic attempt and a practical technique for use in daily life as a Black Queer experience; It is a demonstration of tools that allow me to forge a personalized space where new/alternative possibilities for self can exist. Gargorge is the fabrication and defense of my BQ niche.

Ra’s performance is 25-40 minutes.

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