Vantage Points: Essays, Critical Perspectives, Field Notes

Sonic Nodes; Being with Time; Alexandra Pirici's Re-Collection; Museum Dance; The Tourab Exhibition

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Sandeep Bhagwati Composer, Freelance

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Museum artifacts can be imagined as “vibrant matter” (Bennett 2010).1 Indeed, it could be argued that one function of museums and exhibitions may well be to create circumstances that let us experience material objects as inspiring, vital, and “vibrant”—a term that incidentally links all matter to those vibrations of air molecules that we call “sound.” But what is it that makes objects vibrant?

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Sandeep Bhagwati is a multiple award–winning composer, theater maker, public intellectual, and academic. His compositions/comprovisations are performed worldwide at leading venues/festivals. He has curated interdisciplinary festivals and trans-traditional projects with Asian composer-performers and European new music ensembles. Professor of composition at Karlsruhe Music University since 2000, at Concordia University Montréal since 2006, where, as the Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art, he founded matralab, a research/creation node for live arts. Since 2013, he has led two trans-traditional music ensembles in Pune and Berlin, as well as the TENOR Network, a research platform for notation technologies.

Vanessa Holyoak (US/Canada/France/Hong Kong) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and a PhD student in Comparative Media & Culture at the University of Southern California. She makes installations and performances, writes art criticism and hybrid fiction, and is researching the liberatory potential of dreams, sleep, and darkness in literary and visual arts practices.

Florian Malzacher is a performing arts curator, dramaturge and writer, a graduate of the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the University of Giessen. Current projects include the discourse platform The Art of Assembly and Training for the Future, with Jonas Staal). Among his recent publications are Empty Stages, Crowded Flats (2017), Performativity as Curatorial Strategy (2017) with Joanna Warsa, and The Art of Assembly: Political Theatre Today (2023).

Chris Dupuis is Canadian writer, curator, performance-maker, and co-founder of Screen: Moves, a Toronto-based dance film platform presenting screenings, workshops, and artist talks.

Alma Salem is a curator and cultural consultant with over thirty years of experience. Her exhibitions have toured internationally from London to Delhi, Amsterdam to Brussels. Nestled in the heart of Place Des Arts in Montréal, Atelier Alma serves as a hub for a palette of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary artistic collaborations, seamlessly connected through global networks.

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