In Montreal — with support from Concordia’s Fine Art Student Union, Sexuality Studies Department, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, and Queer Student Union — we brough L.A.’s Silas Howard, and teamed up with local event-producer/performance artists Jordan Arsenault and Laura Boo MacDonald to create HTBAF Queer Sans Fin Convergence, which was hosted at Mise a Jeu on January 8, 2011. About… Read more →
Category: How To Build A Fire
About the performances: 2010
How To Build A Fire travels queer landscapes to create legacies while telling tales of desire and survival. Through freak church services for magical creatures, fragmented memory, movement and costuming, and unravelling narratives, the escape artists trespass loopholes in the American dream. The mysterious figure of Mr. Hollywood looms and a Manifestation of Trisha calls, while feminine hero/ines, renegade chickens,… Read more →
Introducing How To Build a Fire
Hi all, and welcome to the Boxcutter’s Teaching Artist Tour site, with information about our upcoming US/Canada tour dates and presentation. Boxcutter is a Brooklyn-based creative production alliance between Hadassah Damien and Heather Ãcs in order to produce community performance events. We go beyond “thinking outside the box†and instead actively build new narratives through art and education. As teaching… Read more →