Calgary’s TRUCK GALLERY presents three performance-based artworks in conjunction with Alberta’s Mountain Standard Time Performance Art Fest - which also features work by artists including The Cedar Tavern Singers, Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rose, David Hoffos, Istvan Kantor, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Camille Turner and David Zack.

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1. STEPHAN SCHULZ: Equally Distant From Both Sides
Second Performance on October 8, 2008 @ noon
Location: Various locations around Calgary’s downtown core
Documentation on display at TRUCK Gallery from October 10th to 17th

Stephan Schulz, Equally Distant From Both Sides. Image: mstfestival.org

In Equally Distant From Both Sides, Stephan Schulz walks throughout Calgary’s downtown core wearing a business suit and sporting a hard hat with an 8-foot wood plank attached to its top. On each end of the plank a mini digital video camera is mounted and pointed at the artist. The gear is used as a “body extension” and acts as a catalyst or an excuse to start conversations with strangers. This exchange is captured by the two cameras, and then archived as a video database on the artist’s website.

Montreal-based artist Stephan Schulz received his M.F.A in Media Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax in 2007. His work often uses electronic media to intervene into public space by combining elements of performance, sculpture and social interaction.

2. NINA HORVAT: Music (for my father)
Location: Truck Gallery’s +15 Window Space
October 1 - 31, 2008

Nina Horvat’s Music (for my father). Image: mstfestival.org

Croatian artist Nina Horvat presents a split screen video projection featuring a close-up view of the artist singing a repertoire of warm-up exercises, chords, songs, old favourites, and traditional Croatian hits. This is a very intimate, raw, and self-conscious “performance.”

3. KAY BURNS AND TIKI MULVIHILL: CAMPER (Contemporary Art Mobile Public Exhibition Rig)
October 8 and 9, 2008
Location: Calgary West Campground, 221 101 Street SW Calgary AB

A work by artist Kay Burns. Image: nscad.ns.ca

Artists Kay Burns (Calgary) and Tiki Mulvihill (Vancouver), inhabit TRUCK Gallery’s portable exhibition space CAMPER for its original purpose as a recreational home away from home. Ensconced for two days in full-on urban camping and artistic research at Calgary West Campground, located one kilometer West of Canada Olympic Park, Burns and Mulvihill assume the role of urban camper/sociologists. Their research explores the burning questions surrounding the dichotomy between the back-to-nature camping expectation and the real experience of establishing your territory in an urban campground.
This workshop is free and open to the public.

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