Exquisite Pressure x Rumble
March 29–30, 2024
7:30pm, 7pm doors
$10, No one turned away for lack of $
WHAT LAB 1814 Pandora Street
tickets online or at the door
Rumble and What Lab are very excited to welcome you to back to Exquisite Pressure! ExP allows artists to try something new, to share their works in progress in front of an audience, gather feedback, and put their investigations to the test. It’s a night to experience new work in a beautiful, brave, and vulnerable early stage.
ExP x Rumble features the work of:
Paige Louter
Santi Henderson
Shervin Zarkalam
Curated and hosted by Rumble. A few words from them on this process:
"Welcome to Exquisite Pressure's CON-ference! We've given our artists the task to come up with a 15-20 minute piece in the form of a lecture or something else you might present at a conference - EXCEPT it doesn't need to be based in truth, research, or any such credible experience. Lectures may contain truthful material, but we are interested in creating space to explore the performance form of deception. However... This is Exquisite Pressure, and our main goal was to give our artists the space and time to explore, try, fail, and create. It's more about the process than the end result. The idea of a CON-ference was a starting point, and now it's up to the artists to put their spin on it and put their skills and creativity to the test. Team Rumble has been in touch with the artists throughout their process, and we're thrilled for you to see what they create."
Questions? Email us at studio@whatlab.ca
Accessibility Info
What Lab is located at 1814 Pandora Street. There is no dedicated parking, only street parking. The venue is located on the second floor up one flight of stairs, but there is a ground level accessible entrance through the back of the building. Seating is typically informal, and will include some combination of chairs, floor seating, couches, and cushions. There is one single-occupancy, gender-inclusive washroom. The washroom is not big enough for larger style wheelchairs to completely turn around in while the door is open. We are a trans-inclusive space.
How to Make Sure You Deserve Equity
By Paige Louter
Please join Dr. Gaye White in the latest iteration of her virtuosic and much-lauded lecture series: Queering the Funding System: How to Make Sure You Deserve Equity. This illuminating talk will include the latest findings from the cutting edge of social justice research. And don’t worry, if you’re just a plain white person with no extra advantage- that is – marginalizations, there is much to learn here! Guests will have a rare chance to engage Dr. White in a Q&A session, as well as purchase her new book: CO-CONSPIRATOR!
Created & performed by Paige Louter
Untitled
By Santi Henderson
Info coming soon
Created & performed by Santi Henderson
4D:ODADID
By Shervin Zarkalam
A medical/metaphorical diagnosis, investigating Chuck Schuldiner’s cause of death and of course, his band Death.
Created and performed by Shervin Zarkalam with outside support from Niloufar Samadi
about the artists
Paige Louter
Paige Louter is a queer theatre creator and producer living and working on the traditional territories of the the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They hold an MA in Theatre from the University of Galway, work as a dramaturg and new work creator, and are completing their training as an Intimacy Director. Credits include co-producing and acting in The Wolves (With a Spoon /Rumble, Jessie Nomination: Outstanding Production) and performing in The Lonesome West (Cave Canem), Twelfth Night (Tottering Biped) Coarse: The Brontes (Sarah Deller), and producing The Cafe and Sunrise Betties with ITSAZOO. Paige is Currently Arts’ Operations Manager and ITSAZOO’s Co-Artistic Producer. She loves creating strange pockets of time and space to tell stories in.
Photo credit Chelsey Stuyt
Santi Henderson
Santi Henderson is a filmmaker, writer, and performance artist based in the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also referred to as Vancouver.
His work sometimes is exploratory, process driven, immersive, and comedic.
Shervin Zarkalam
Shervin Zarkalam is an Iranian interdisciplinary dramaturg, performer, and performance-maker, currently based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil- Waututh Nations. Shervin is primarily interested in lecture performance, dance dramaturgy, meta-dramaturgy, sound-based performances, No-input mixers, Analog video feedback and real-time composition. His performances range from postdramatic theatre to performance art and autobiographical lecture performance.
This presentation is funded in part by
