Battery Opera PerformanceWalking Projects : “Vancouver, crawling, weeping, betting” is a co-presentation with battery opera performance, comprising six weeks of public actions, clandestine screenings, chance meetings, and intoxicated psychogeographies.

Memories, reanimated wraiths and the spirits imbibed are recorded in a series of twelve stories and accompanying maps. Installed in the gallery, these reports and boundaries document their embodied experiences of Vancouver.  Afternoon guided city tours, late night improvised art salons and witching hour solos, will enable guest artists, citizens and visitors to respond, react or ignore. Bring your ghosts, bring your body, have a drink and take your chances. Join the conversation about this city, your place, our past and its spirits — both the ones that stubbornly linger, and the ones that enable forgetting.

The project is accompanied by a book of twelve stories by co-curators Chis Bose and David McIntosh, with illustrations by Chris Bose, co-published by Publication Studio Vancouver.

Performances

  • Thursdays: 11:30pm – 12:30 am Witching hour solos (viewable from the street through live projections on windows)
  • Fridays: 10pm – midnight Bob’s Salon (interactive art salon for the curious imbiber, featuring guest artists)
  • Saturdays: 12 – 5 pm Guided improvised tours of the city by six performers, based on Bose and McIntosh’s stories and maps. (first come, first tour).

With performances by: Chris Bose, David McIntosh, Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo Khakpour, Chu-Lynne Ng, Maxine Chadburn, Finn Manniche, New Improved, Peggy Lee, Kelly McInnes, Sophia Wolfe, Elissa Hanson, Max Murphy, Ron Samworth, Jeff Younger, Ben Brown, Russel Scholburg, Justine Chambers, Joel Lower, Gary Wildeman, Bruce Freedman, Arash Khakpour, Billy Marchenski, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Daina Ashbee, Michael Turner, Veda Hille, Margo Kane, Cease Wyss, Henry Tsang and more t.b.a.
Co-curators Chris Bose and David McIntosh retrace their separate trajectories through the streets of the city. Their memories, reanimated wraiths and the spirits imbibed are recorded in a series of twelve stories and accompanying maps. Installed in the gallery, these reports and boundaries document their embodied experiences of Vancouver. Afternoon guided city tours, late night improvised art salons and witching hour solos, will enable guest artists, citizens and visitors to respond, react or ignore the reflected world of Bose and McIntosh. Bring your ghosts, bring your body, have a drink and take your chances. Join the conversation about this city, your place, our past and its spirits – both the ones that stubbornly linger, and the ones that enable forgetting.

Chris Bose is a war party baby of the N’Laka’Pamux and the Secwepmec Nations (they hooked-up at St. George’s residential school in Lytton). He is a writer, artist, musician, filmmaker and a Scoundrel.

David McIntosh is a settler party baby of a White-Man and a White-Lady (they hooked-up at the Waldorf bar in Vancouver). He is a writer, singer, state-funded-artist, and a Sommelier.

battery opera performance is a performing arts company based in Vancouver. The work of battery opera interrogates the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced cultures, histories and habits. battery opera performance investigates this body, this place, within a contemporary-colonial matrix, cognizant of the interplay between art, power, politics and history.

Performance Schedule

(all events begin at Unit Pitt Projects, 236 East Pender Street, Vancouver)

Thursday Jan. 16, 11:30pm – 12:30 am Witching hour solo

  •  Chris Bose

Friday Jan. 17 , 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon

  •  Dance: Maxine Chadburn, Michelle Lui, Brian Solomon
  •  Music: Finn Manniche and cohorts (New Improved)
  •  Story: Chris Bose
  •  Host: David McIntosh

Saturday Jan. 18 Guided improvised tours of the city

  •  Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo Khakpour, Chu-Lynne Ng, Maxine Chadburn.

Thursday Jan. 23, 11:30pm – 12:30 am Witching hour solo

  •  Michelle Lui

Friday Jan. 24, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon

  •  Dance: Kelly McInnes, Sophia Wolfe, Elissa Hansen
  •  Music: Peggy Lee, Aram Bajakian, Tony Wilson
  •  Story: Michael Turner
  •  Host: David McIntosh

Saturday Jan. 25 Guided improvised tours of the city

  •  Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo Khakpour, Chu-Lynne Ng, Maxine Chadburn.

Thursday Jan. 30, 11:30pm – 12:30 am Witching hour solo

  •  Brian Solomon

Friday Jan. 31, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon

  •  Dance: Billy Marchenski and cohorts
  •  Music: Max Murphy, Ron Samworth
  •  Story: Margo Kane
  •  Host: David McIntosh

Saturday Feb. 1 Guided improvised tours of the city

  •  Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo Khakpour, Chu-Lynne Ng, Maxine Chadburn.

Thursday Feb 6, 11:30pm – 12:30 am Witching hour solo

  •  Bracken Hanuse Corlett

Friday Feb. 7, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon

  •  Dance: Paras Terezakis and cohorts
  •  Music: Max Murphy, Jeff Younger
  •  Story: Bracken Hanuse Corlett
  •  Host: David McIntosh

Saturday Feb.8 Guided improvised tours of the city

  •  Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo Khakpour, Chu-Lynne Ng, Maxine Chadburn.

Thursday Feb 13, 11:30pm – 12:30 am Witching hour solo

  •  Cease Wyss

Friday Feb 14, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon

  •  Dance: Justine Chambers and cohorts
  •  Music: Ben Brown and cohorts
  •  Story: Cease Wyss
  •  Host: David McIntosh

Saturday Feb 15, Guided improvised tours of the city

  •  Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo Khakpour, Chu-Lynne Ng, Maxine Chadburn.

Thursday Feb 20, 11:30pm – 12:30 am Witching hour solo

  •  Daina Ashbee

Friday Feb 21, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon

  •  Dance: Daina Ashbee, Diego Romero and cohort
  •  Music: Max Murphy, Ben Brown, Russel Scholburg
  •  Story: Henry Tsang
  •  Host: David McIntosh

Saturday Feb 22, Guided improvised tours of the city

  •  Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo Khakpour, Chu-Lynne Ng, Maxine Chadburn.

Thursday 27, 11:30pm – 12:30 am Witching hour solo

  •  Chris Bose

Friday Feb 28, 10pm – 12 midnight Bob’s Salon

  •  Dance: Arash Khakpour and cohorts
  •  Music: Max Murphy, Joel Lower, Gary Wildeman, Bruce Freedman
  •  Story: Veda Hille
  •  Host: David McIntosh

Saturday March 1, Guided improvised tours of the city

  •  Brian Solomon, Pedro Chamale, Michelle Lui, Aryo Khakpour, Chu-Lynne Ng, Maxine Chadburn.

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