Retroflex Cabaret!

Saturday, October 5th

• performance
• Retroflex
• workshops

Retroflex Cabaret: A night of drag & performance art
Eastern Edge Gallery
Saturday, October 5th, 8-10pm
FREE!

Retroflex Cabaret is a night of drag and performance art. It will include six artists, four invited and two local, who vary from nightclub drag performers to gallery context performance artists, and somewhere in between.

Performances will start at 8pm. Some will be durational for you to experience all evening, and others will happen when the time is right. This is not your standard gallery event, nor is it your average drag show. This will be a night for the history books. Keep in mind that when you go down to eastern edge gallery you never know who, or what, you may encounter…. but do not fear, it’s only a cabaret, old chum!
And I love a cabaret!

Featuring:
\Garbagefile
Dan Sundelin-Hooker
Humboldt Magnussen
Lady Kunterpunt
Marisa Hoicka
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Curated and Hosted by Irma Gerd // Jason Wells

This event is completely FREE thanks to the generous support of The Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, The City of St John’s, and Eastern Edge Gallery.

After the Cabaret make your way up to Velvet for #Swagger: A Ball for Them All brought to you by Sherry Hibiscus and Mia Moore starting at 1030

PLEASE NOTE that nudity and body modification will be a part of this event.

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RetroFlex a year long curatorial project developed by Kailey Bryan, Jason Penney, and Jason Wells. This comprehensive year long program has included a robust program of exhibitions, video screenings, artist talks, performance interventions, and commissioned texts. It focuses on themes pertinent to emergent queer perspectives and history contextualized alongside Eastern Edge’s own legacy as a queer space. Eastern Edge Gallery is one of the longest running queer spaces in St John’s. Since its foundation by queers and feminists in 1984, drag artists and performance artists have used the walls, floors, and rafters of Eastern Edge Gallery to push the boundaries of contemporary art.

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EE Studios
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Careless Whisper: An ASMR Workshop with a Clown
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dan Sundelin (Performance Artist, Music Producer, DJ and Promoter)

Dan’s practice is heavily influenced by the relationship between the audience and the performer within the performance environment; especially revolving around intimacy created between audience and performer and experimenting with how far this intimacy can be pushed. Previous works have focused upon an aspect of the body and/or self which can be considered a commodity, how this is framed by society, and the consequences to which this can lead. The concepts Dan deals with, and the methods they employ, express the absurdity in society and question whether or not this is a workable model of existence.

\Garbagefile

Kai Bryan\garbagefile is a visual and performing artist who combines drag, clown, and aerial circus for a sometimes silly, sometimes sexy, often a little bit dark romp through pop punk hits from the last twenty years. Kailey has been a practicing visual and performing artist since 2006 and has been training in aerial circus arts since 2016. \garbagefile is a member of St. John’s weirdest drag collective the Phlegm Fatales and is the recent “bronze winner” of Atlantic Drag Star 2019. They want to unpack the dense suitcase of gender, litter the room with odds and sods, throw the whole suitcase out the window then demolish the building.

Humboldt Magnussen

I am an artist/curator from rural Saskatchewan. I hold an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies at OCAD University focusing on performance art and masculinity studies and a BFA from Concordia University from 2011 in Studio Arts. I have exhibited my work across Canada and internationally, notable exhibitions include “Every. Now.Then: Reframing Nationhood” at the Art Gallery of Ontario and “Show. 17” at the Idea Exchange. I am also a DJ and party producer and founder of Juicy Moon Productions in Toronto.

Marisa Hoicka

Whether through a performance, on canvas, or an installation, Marisa Hoicka creates narrative paintings that come to life. She integrates paintings, compelling tactile elements, performance art, interactive video and other electronic media.

Hoicka recently performed a new work in Flow Chart at Dancemakers in Toronto. She was artist in residence at Doris McCarthy’s “Fool’s Paradise.” She participated in the Images Festival’s “Now What?” residency and was artist in residence at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cork, Ireland.