BLUSCRN at Fuse Resonances (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2019)
About the Event
BLUSCRN, co-created by Ralph Escamillan (FAKEKNOT) and Milton Lim, is a collection of multimedia dance works exploring the impacts and imprints of flat media and hyper marketing onto the contemporary body. By using both live and post-production chroma keying softwares to filter and replace environments, objects, and clothing, the project asserts a simultaneous operation of the body as subject and object.
In translating physical space to a 2-dimensional screen, the artists examine the techniques of live performance, popular media, and cinema; all of which have their own concepts of image and ideation. These frameworks of imagination and immersion serve as a context from which we can observe the constantly changing landscape of body politic and social marketing.
This iteration of BLUSCRN will manifest as 3 distinct short films: BLUrm, BLUbrd, and BLUprnt - each containing a central question of how bodies behave within and transform beyond specific environments.
Join us following the screening of these shorts for an artist talk!
About the Artists
Ralph Escamillan is a queer, Canadian-Filipinx dancer/choreographer/community leader based in Vancouver, BC. He is a graduate of contemporary training program Modus Operandi (2015), and his arsenal of performance skills includes a variety of street dance styles, ballroom, vogue, circus, and drag. Ralph has worked and toured internationally with a number of Vancouver based dance companies, and also works in Film and TV, represented by Da Costa Talent. The founder of non-profit VanVogueJam, Ralph shares his passion for Vogue/Ballroom culture at his weekly by-donation class and vogue balls, acting as a beacon for the queer dance form in Western Canada. Recently touring his first full length work "HINKYPUNK" around the prairies, under his company alias FakeKnot, he is now working on his second work, "whip,” premiering at the MAI (Montréal, QB) in Spring of 2021. Currently he is on contract with Wen Wei Dance and Mascall Dance, recently performed as a guest dancer for Ballet BC, and is also a Lululemon Ambassador.
Milton Lim (he/him) is a media artist and performance creator based in Vancouver, Canada: the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. His work utilizes publicly available data and game structures to articulate new expressions of value and labour within our systems of power and politics. Milton holds a BFA (Hons.) in theatre performance and psychology from Simon Fraser University. He has created works for and performed in various international festivals and venues including PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), CanAsian Dance Festival (Toronto), Carrefour international de théâtre festival (Quebec City), Seattle International Dance Festival, Risk/Reward Festival (Portland), artsdepot (London), CanadaHub at the Edinburgh Fringe, soft/WALL/studs (Singapore), and Australia’s Darwin Festival. He is the recipient of the 2016 Ray Michal Prize for Outstanding Body of Work, a Co-Artistic Director of Hong Kong Exile, an Artistic Associate with Theatre Conspiracy, a key archivist with videocan, a Digital Interaction Designer with The Cultch, and one of the co-creators behind culturecapital: the performing arts economy trading card game.
Daria Mikhaylyk is a Russian-born, Canadian-based dance artist, currently living and moving in Vancouver, BC. After relocating to Canada in 2014, she continued her dance education with Modus Operandi Contemporary Dance Program, and simultaneously completed her BA in Art History at the University of British Columbia. After her education, Daria got to deepen her practice through working and collaborating with companies like Dance Victoria, Vision Impure Compagnie, Mascall Dance, Kinesis Dance Somatheatro, FakeKnot, Wen Wei Dance, artists like Anya Saugstad, Eowynn Enquist, Diego Romero, as well as through her solo projects, in which she’s been interested in exploring
intersecting movement and video art. Her works were presented at the Shooting Gallery Performance Series, F-O-R-M (Festival of Record Movement), Body+Camera festival in Chicago and Jersey City, Remington art Gallery.
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