Material Stargazer de Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
With Material Stargazer, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines brings experimental art into dialogue with community engagement. Inspired by Fluxus and the Theatre of the Oppressed, the project brings together artists and participants from all walks of life in a creative process that taps into the collective imagination.
Hanako Hoshimi-Caines launches our brand-new partnership with La petite place des arts, in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc (Mauricie). She will be in residence there from October 6 to 11.
Public residency showing on October 11 at 4:00 PM
La petite place des arts: https://www.lapetiteplacedesarts.ca
Credits
Choreographer: Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
About the artist
A friend wrote that dance is never irreverent enough. I think about that. I search for irreverence like I am searching for the paradox of real life mess in art. Material Stargazer*, perhaps, gets close to this irreverence, definitely to a reverent mess. Does irreverence have to be in relation to a frame? Like irreverent to whom and to what? But thinking about this I want to say, no, irreverence is not in relation. Anyway, we work with “approximate” as a method to follow irreverence; as the gap, the spirit of error, because making forms is somehow already so “some thing” too easily.
When the whole group gets together the time goes fast. They are astoundingly open and only just a little worried about what they’ve gotten themselves into. After messing around with materials and different shapes of structures, a Story Blob emerged at Anti-space. That was good. [...]
— Reflections from the Material Stargazer residency, October 14th to 20th 2024, at Anti-space in preparation for the project at Suspicious Fish community center in November 2024. By Hanako Hoshimi-Caines in collaboration with Louise Jack, Eric Craven, Nien Tzu Weng and Hanako Brierley.
* In November 2024, a group of five artists and community workers carried out a pilot project called Material Stargazer, a multidisciplinary participant-led creative process in which aesthetics and goals are designed around local community dynamics, testing the boundaries of authorship, creative practice and activism. A 6 month long process and one-week residency at the Suspicious Fish community center culminated in a “Story Blob” : a gently anarchic soft sculptural installation made of varied objects and fabrics, poetry, manifestos, odes as well as sound, voice, projections and performances co-created with community participants and open to the public. The Story Blob as a conceptual object can hold many perspectives, visions and artistic media at the same time, allowing us to explore, get lost, contemplate, play and find spontaneous and multiple ways of moving, making and thinking together. In other words, the Story Blob is both an object and the vehicle for performances/expressions. It is space plus time, an object and its transmission.
Practical Informations
Dates
October 11 at 4:00 PMPresenter
La petite place des arts, in Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc (Mauricie).