Chaos at LIVE 2011

Events all day.

Chaos is a series of performance interventions developed for 'LIVE' by Sinéad O'Donnell (Ire), Judith Price (B.C), Margaret Dragu (BC) and Grace Salez (BC). All four artists will work during the 'LIVE' festival as a collective investigating the place of the festival and its relationship to social space. The artists are using the duration of the festival as a residential time to further interrogate the territory of site specific performance by making an action a day that will be accessible to audience through the 'LIVE' website. All artists will perform finally at a location in Vancouver on the Saturday the 24th of September.

These artists expose the absurdity and inflated expectations of the accelerated lifestyles we have come to accept as compulsory. Women, particularly European and North American women, who've been told that they can "have it all", have become intimately familiar with the nature of chaos. The continual juggling of tasks and personas at work and at home has put women in a unique position to identify practical applications of chaos, not just as an intellectual construct. These women will explore the underlying structures and complexities of chaos by playing in it and with it.

"We going to work site based in Vancouver for the duration of the LIVE festival. We will not need a studio in a traditional way because we are going to use the urbanity of Vancouver as 'place' to research, resource, play, think and devise ideas into actions. We will present time and site based performance work to announced audience all day Saturday the 24th of September at a site we like or many sites. We will use the LIVE website to update our findings, processes and unfolding actions each day."