It is with acts of attention that we decide who to hear, who to see and who in our world has agency. In this way our attention forms the ground not just for love but for ethics.
With a focus on movement, dance, and the body, 2024 Biennial Programs address the inherent wisdom we all carry within us. Through a series of performances, workshops, talks, and gatherings these programs offer ways of contemplating, sensing, and experiencing the body.
Inspired by the Biennial’s title, Precarious Joys, and artist/scholar Jenny Odell’s writing about time, TBA Programs offer a performance and pedagogical series centering the body as a container of time and attention. This focus explores the potent corporeal knowledge we all hold as well as the physical, ecological, and psychological cues offered by this information.
Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry is a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring both its exceptional depth of data, extraordinary strength, and resilience over time, as well as its tenderness, fragility, and limitations.
In this series, several artists explore gestures of resistance, protection, action, and care. Some incorporate opportunities for collective listening, observing, singing, and creating, whereas others investigate the connection between land and body, attuning through slowing, softening, researching, and deep consideration. These movements and moments leave traces that endure and tell the stories of presence, resilience, and courage.
In the workshop series Keeping Time, artists inspire participants to pay special attention to time, space, and movement. The series employs the idea of physical learning to access the body’s deep-rooted knowledge, harmonizing the relationship between body and time.
In this time of polycrisis and precarity, suffering, inequality, injustice, violence, and destruction can feel overwhelming. How we care for ourselves and others, and how we spend our precious time, energy, and attention is consequential and impactful. Moments of movement, poetry, listening, dancing, swaying, kicking, and singing may seem inadequate, but can be critical, and sometimes joyful, forms and reminders to come back to the body, and reveal a glimpse into the shared experience centred in all bodies.
Many TBA Programs are presented with local artistic partners and community groups, further supporting the important work of our incredible participating artists and inquiries.
Visit the Events Calendar for up-to-date information on upcoming programs.
