Patrick Blenkarn & Montserrat Videla Samper

Statement

Patrick Blenkarn (Ottawa, 1991) is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He is the co-creator of the arts economy trading card game, culturecapital, and a member of the archival project, videocan. His work currently explores language, labour, and the art economy, often using participation and games in performance to create alternative contexts for discourse and thought.

Montserrat Videla Samper (Mexico City, 1997) is a Colombian-Mexican artist currently based in Canada. She trained in acting and performance creation at the School of Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Her current interests revolve around the aesthetics of mothering, wounding, and crisis in theater and performance and how these aesthetics are enacted and experienced by performers and spectators.

GlogauAIR Project

This residency brings together our personal practices: as directors and actors, as media artists and movers, as two interdisciplinary individuals who take turns leading and following.

During our residency, we will be working on multiple projects across sound and video works, video games, and live performance, exploring the politics and representations of donkeys, dogs, and mothers (among others). Our experiments while in residence will orbit and intersect with questions concerning labour, philosophies of the animal, and affect in order to try to destabilize our definitions and etiquettes of being human.

CV Summary

PATRICK BLENKARN (OTTAWA, 1991)

EDUCATION

• 2018, Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver
• 2013, BA Combined Honours in Contemporary Studies + Theatre Studies, with a Minor in Film Studies, University of King’s College, Halifax

SELECTED PERFORMANCES & LIVE ART

• on-going, asses.masses, Risk/Reward Festival, Portland; Digital Summit, Banff Centre for the Arts
• on-going, culturecapital, Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Vancouver; Chinook Series, Edmonton
• 2019, 1991, Guilty by Association, Feminist Fuck It Fest, Toronto; RISER Project, Toronto
• 2018, Donkeyskin [prototype: China], Interplay 2018, Vancouver
• 2018, Books, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
• 2017, A Zoo for Ideas, Spaces for Art: A Critical Conversation, SFU, Vancouver
• 2016, That which doesn’t go away, Interplay 2016, Vancouver
• 2016, Soliloquy in English, SummerWorks, Toronto; rEvolver Theatre Festival, Vancouver
• 2015, Embracing Canada: A Guerrilla Audio Guide to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
• 2015, Play, xosecret, Halifax
• 2015, Practice: Shanghai, Shanghai
• 2015, Skype Piece, Demostage/Stages Theatre Festival, Halifax
• 2015, Les mères, The Prince George Hotel, Halifax
• 2014, Rendezvous, DaPoPo’s The Live-In Festival, Halifax [staged reading]
• 2014, Accompaniment: Prelude and Intermezzo, Online

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2018, Digital Carnival, Cinevolution, Richmond
• 2018, Intensity at Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seyðisfjörður
• 2017, Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver
• 2017, Flotilla, Charlottetown
• 2017, Binding, Breathing, Incorporating, Audain Gallery, Vancouver
• 2017, Digital Carnival, Cinevolution, Richmond
• 2017, Hot Dog, Parking Spot Projects, Vancouver
• 2017, In Circulation: Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver
• 2017, 49 at 74: New Works by Canadian Artists on Paper, Marbury Studio, New York, NY

SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS

• 2016, Philosophical Investigations, Digital Video. 5:47min // Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Guadalajara (2017)
• 2016, Heart & Soul: S12 E10 [w. Lily Ross-Millard], Digital Video. 9:09min // Photophobia Contemporary Moving Image Festival, Art Gallery of Hamilton/Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton (2017); Cineworks Film & Media Showcase (2017); Martinique International Film Festival (2017); Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival (2016) *Best Experimental Film Award*; Experimental Forum 2016, Los Angeles (2016); Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Guadalajara, (2016); Festival of Recorded Movement, Vancouver (2016)

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

• 2020, Explorations, The Theatre Centre, Toronto
• 2019, Fonderie Darling, Montreal
• 2018, Studio Residency, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby
• 2018, Micro-Performance Residency, Boca del Lupo, Vancouver
• 2018, Scholarship Residency, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
• 2018, Printing Matter Residency, Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts, Seyðisfjörður

SELECTED AWARDS

• 2020, Digital Strategy Fund, Canada Council for the Arts (videocan – Multidisciplinary)
• 2020, Digital Originals, Canada Council for the Arts (Visual Arts)
• 2020, Digital Originals, Canada Council for the Arts (Interarts)
• 2019, Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts (Theatre)
• 2019, Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts (Interarts)
• 2019, Professional Development for Artists, Canada Council for the Arts (Lighting Design)
• 2018, Arts Abroad: Residency Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
• 2016, Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival Best Experimental Film Award
• 2015, Canada Graduate Scholarship— Masters, Social Sciences Humanities Research Centre (SSHRC)

MONTSERRAT VIDELA SAMPER (MEXICO CITY, 1997)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

• 2020, BFA Theatre Performance, Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver
• 2019, Dramaturgy and Communications Intern, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Vancouver
• Acting: Ker Wells, Steven Hill, Cole Lewis, Fay Simpson. Grotowski: Raina Von Waldenburg, Ker Wells. Commedia Del’Arte/Mask: Steven Hill. Clown: Steven Hill. Shakespeare: Cole Lewis, Sara Holdren. Voice: Tanya Elchuck, Lee Su-Feh. Fitzmaurice Technique: Lee Su-Feh. Contemporary Dance: Henry Daniel, Rob Kitsos. Viewpoints: Rob Kitsos. Labán Technique: Lavinia Hollands. Devising: Henry Daniel, James Long, Cole Lewis, Steven Hill, Ker Wells, Rob Kitsos, Nicola Gunn Stage Combat: Jacquie Loewen

SELECTED THEATRE PERFORMANCE & CREATION

• 2020, Blue Borders, Performer, Eric Rose+Laura Anzola [Ghost River Theatre, AZMA]
• 2020, New Societies, Facilitator/Creator, Brian Postalian [Re:Current Theatre 2019; eVolver, Kick&Push]
• 2020, culturecapital, Tournament Program Officer, Milton Lim+Patrick Blenkarn [Expanse Fest/Chinook Series]
• 2019, 1991, Performer, Cole Lewis [Why Not Theatre’s RISER Project, In the Soil, GbA]
• 2019, Corazón del Espantapájaros, Performer/Creator, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa [PuSh Festival]
• 2019, Bombogenesis: A Musical, Liesl Von Trapp, Steven Hill [SFU Theatre Mainstage]
• 2019, WROL*, Maureen, Amy Lynn Strilchuck [Touchstone Theatre]
• 2019, A La Commedia, Louise, Steven Hill [Burnaby Arts Council Summer Theatre]
• 2018, The Wolves**, #14, Jamie King [Pacific Theatre, With A Spoon, Rumble Theatre]
• 2017, Romeo + Juliet, Juliet, Cole Lewis [SFU Theatre Mainstage]
• 2017, these violent delights, Nurse, Cole Lewis [Summerworks Festival, GbA]
• 2017, nómadas, Performer/Collaborator, Henry Daniel [SFU Dance Mainstage]
• * Staged reading
• ** Jessie Richardson Award nomination for Best Production (Small Theatre)

SELECTED FILM

• 2020, Sam at the Base […], Supporting, Yousuf Liepert [NextFest]
• 2018, Abracadavers*, Supporting, Morgan Ermter [Numera Films]
• 2018, Virgo Rising**, Supporting, Emily Bayrock [SFU Film]
• 2017, Your Story, Lead, Commercial; Simon Fraser University
• *13 wins and 32 nominations, including Best Web Series-Fiction from Alberta Film & Television Awards.
• **3 wins and 2 nominations, including Best Student Short Film from Festigious International Film Festival

SELECTED VOICE WORK

• 2020, Messenger, Madam, Yousuf Liepert [MMM Collective/Wildfire Series Podcast]
• 2019, In the middle[…], Narrator, Henry Daniel [Black Canadian Scholars Ass./UBC Theatre]
• 2019, Bl’eau Beauty, Narrator, Commercial; Canadian Glacial Clay Cosmetics Corporation
• 2018, nómadas, Narrator/Writer,Henry Daniel [Cambridge Music Society, Woodward’s Cultural Unit, Mediating Performance Experiences/UofO, Body of Knowledge/Deakin University, Society for Artistic Research/Zürich University of the Arts, Interactive Art Science Technology/UofL]

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• 2018, FCAT Undergraduate Conference [Simon Fraser University]
• 2017, 4×4 [The Playground Gallery]
• 2017, Back Alley Artist Night [CBC Studio 700]

ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT

• 2020, Fall Volcano Conservatory, Volcano Theatre, Toronto
• 2020, Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford, Stratford, CT
• 2020, Emerging Creatives Program, Vines Art Festival, Vancouver
• 2018, Youth Academy, PuSh Festival, Vancouver
• 2016, beautifulyoungstudents, One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary

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