Guest Blogger Karl Takes A Look at Mountain Standard Time
Howdy, guest blogger Karl here. This post takes the Mountain Standard Time Zone literally, with a look at the Mountain Standard Time Performance Art Festival.
Now, I’ll admit that I found this by googling “Mountain Standard Time Arts”, but a causal browse on
their website revels a lot beneath the generic title. The first festival was in 1971 in Calgary, AB Canada. Since then, the festival has specialized in combining traditional art forms like film and dance with more modern ones like video and multimedia, as well as covering everything else under the “performance art”
umbrella. I know that this will be of particular interest to my friend Gray, who has a lot of experience with combining video with dance to create new and interesting performance pieces.
They don’t have the current program for this year’s festival up yet, but going to the Program navigation
link on their website does bring up links to past artists that give a sample of what the festival has to
offer. The artists range from Camille Turner, who uses her performance as beauty queen Miss Canadiana as a way of mirroring the society around her; to the Nihilist Spasm Band, who specialize in creating their own unique sounds using a variety of low and high tech instruments and items not normally related to music; to Mono Logical, a monologist who incorporates video and audio clips into his monologues about urban space and global economics (among other things.) And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
If you’re interested in how performance arts are performed in different parts of the world, you could certainly do worse than checking out this site.
The Mountain Standard Time Performance Art Festival is being held October 3rd-17th, 2008 in Calgary, AB
(Alberta) Canada. http://www.mstfestival.org/index.html
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