Carnival 2-Day Program
We need a holiday to justify the offal in our bowl and so we invented one. The charivari and its long legs and extra fingers have been invited to take a seat in the quire. This is not a battle to be won or lost, but a site of reversal where the possibility of change might be celebrated. The vulgar and the erudite shall share their fetid breath and for two days we will uncrown our algorithmic masters.
We spend most of the year inside a monstrous marvel, a pulsating mass of gears, wires, and the gnashing teeth of an insatiable hunger, devouring all in our path, belching forth a rancid fog of margins and metrics. It’s all tremendous fun, but a rest, at times, is deserved.
Carnival is inversion and mixture. We happily tithe the counting machines and we demand in return our moments of overflow and excess. The illegible, the joyous, the grotesque, and the uncertain organize our efforts. We bear no malice but rather advocate mirth. We celebrate the body and its needs, the earth and its gifts, and our ancestors and the stories that they give us. We do not hate the artificially intelligent but we would be remiss in not finding the humour in it.
We spend most of the year inside a monstrous marvel, a pulsating mass of gears, wires, and the gnashing teeth of an insatiable hunger, devouring all in our path, belching forth a rancid fog of margins and metrics. It’s all tremendous fun, but a rest, at times, is deserved.
Carnival is inversion and mixture. We happily tithe the counting machines and we demand in return our moments of overflow and excess. The illegible, the joyous, the grotesque, and the uncertain organize our efforts. We bear no malice but rather advocate mirth. We celebrate the body and its needs, the earth and its gifts, and our ancestors and the stories that they give us. We do not hate the artificially intelligent but we would be remiss in not finding the humour in it.
Friday - June 23, 2023
Main Carnival
Location: Body Shop Studios10PM to 1AM
10AM - 5PM: (Free)
10AM - 4PM: Mask making
All Installations
12PM - 3:30PM: Chase Young Activation12:30PM - 2PM: Erika-Jean Lincoln Activation
Shows
17:00: Doors Open (ticketed)17:30 - 19:00: TETC
19:15PM - 20:45PM: BadMachine
21:00- 1:00: Vampire Lounge Club + 1 More*
*For Carnival Ticket Holders and tickets at the door for $10.
Academic Goats
Location: Artscape9:30 to 15:00
10:00: Opening
Land: Talks and Workshops
10:40AM: Maurice Jones - Earthly Community11:15AM: Michael F. Bergmann - Envisioning Creation with Non-Human Collaborators
12:00 – 13:00: Eat and connect
Story: Talks and Workshops
13:00: Albertine Thunier - Uncanny Alliances with Artificial Lives13:45: Willem Deisinger - TBA
Body: Talks and Workshops
14:30: Natalie Wood and Lequanne Collins-Bacchus -
Blue Devils in the Digital Diaspora15:15: Close and connecting
Saturday - June 24, 2023
Main Carnival
Location: Body Shop Studios10AM to 4AM
10:00 - 16:00 (Free)
10:00 - 16:00: Mask-making table active
All Installations
12:00 - 15:30: Chase Young Activation12:30 - 14:00: Erika-Jean Lincoln Activation
13:30 - 14:00: Ragamalika Performance #1
Shows
16:00: Doors Open (ticketed)16:30 - 17:00: Ragamalika Performance #2
17:30 - 18:15: Borelson
18:30 - 19:00: Jute (Montreal, CA)
19:00 - 22:00: Bar open for drinks and mingling.
20:00 - 4:00 (After Party): Pravik (DJ set), Mykhaylo (Live Set, MTL) , D.Blavatsky (Hybrid Live + DJ, MTL), E-Saggila*
*Separate tickets. Free for full goat-passes or ticket holders. Tickets available at the door.
