Across Oceans produces
international arts platforms in Canada and worldwide, with acclaimed
performing, visual and literary artists, and develops interactions
created specially for specific environments and communities. Programming includes live performance,
2-D and 3-D art exhibits, film/video screenings, public forums,
advanced training and research.
Characteristically approaching delicate themes
with an unlikely balance of boldness and sensitivity.
In conventional theatres, galleries, rice fields, city harbours, the events are produced to delight in the collaboration between
artists,
individuals and communities through the arts.
Based in Toronto, Canada, Across Oceans projects have involved
participants from Canada, many EU countries, Singapore, Indonesia,
Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, USA, Venezuela, VietNam.
Collaborations in the deepest sense of the word:
the coming together of people with different perspective,
experiences, and training, artists and audience, to find a
common vision and to create relevant expressive vocabularies
that reflect their creative interchanges.
Projects of particular note include:
- Choreographic Marathon professional level training and renewal for choreographers and interpreters
- Rage projects investigating Rage as a source of creative expression in the arts and society
Ti Krima, in Toronto's top 10 best dance shows of 2009 (Now mag)! Massive ensemble piece that is remarkably easy to tour 100+ performers, pro and community). First performed at Booze Arts Cooperativa in Athens supporting the immigrant aid centre of central Athens 2006; in Toronto and Hamilton 2009 with Daily Bread Food Bank. click krima the book "Writings on collaboration" in 2009 .... click writings
- RESEARCH across oceans online resources & links re: process .... click research
- 3-year AtHOME project gathered over 200 international artists to examine the nature of artistic collaboration across disciplines, generations, and cultures. 2001-03 .... click atHome
Soup of the Day for 5 years was an open studio and newsletter sharing improvisation practices 1996-2001. a Harbour Symphony was created for ship's horns played by 50 scouts on 12 ships at The European City of Culture’06. The Memory Project – a 5-year
art-science-computer technology research interface linking artists and
neurologists in cooperation with the research lab of Dr. Tim Kennedy at
the Montreal Neurological Institute 2002-2008 - Boat Ballet in Budapest Park, a
performance event in Lake Ontario commissioned by YYZ gallery WADE
festival with the Mazeryk Community Arts Centre (Parkdale) outriggers
canoe program and emerging dance artists creating a site- specific
performance on Lake Ontario and in Budapest Park (Sunnyside Pool) 2003
Shoe Show (papoutsia : sepatu) installation project with M. Hanafi exhibited at Jogjakarta International Bienale 05, Jakarta Museum of Art 06, MAD video festival 08 Stonepatch - 4 site-specific events in Albion Hills Ontario: autumn, winter, spring, summer 1999 Production and creation of 19 video-films to date
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