VANCOUVER: Non-Traditional Modalities in Presentation - Panel Discussion led by Adrienne Wong

About the panelists:Remy Siu 蕭逸南 is a composer, new media artist, and game developer.Recently, his work has involved the construction of automated and variable performance apparatuses that employ light, sound, software, and the body. He is interested in creating friction and stakes between the performer, the interface, and the system through the use of game mechanics and failure. His output spans chamber music, dance, theatre, installations, and audio-visual work.Governor General’s Award finalist, Tetsuro Shigematsu, became the first person-of-colour to host a daily national radio program in Canada, where he coproduced nearly a thousand hours of network programming, as well as writing, producing and voicing over 50 pieces of radio drama. His last three stage plays have garnered a total of 21 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations, including 3 for “Best Original Script.” A former writer for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Tetsuro’s solo-work Empire of the Son was described by theatre critic Colin Thomas as, “one of the best shows ever to come out of Vancouver. Ever.”Born in colonial Hong Kong, Stephanie Wong (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ peoples. Her art is an invocation to imagination. Her practice dances between introspection and connection. She thrives in community, and strives to give back through a commitment to collective care.Her disciplines include directing, producing, dramaturgy, new work creation, performance, and design. A graduate of Studio 58's Acting Program, and the current Associate Artistic Director of re:Naissance Opera, she has transferred her multidisciplinary live performance skills to the digital landscape.Sound Artist, Nancy Tam (譚亦斯), works and lives on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil- Waututh Nations. She works across disciplinary bounds with sound and performance as her primary media. Using multi-channel audio, and musical composition her current research triangulates between sound, space, and body to investigate tendencies of global and local mobilizations of creatures, objects, and events. Nancy is an award-winning composer. Her compositions, audio walks, performances, and collaborations have toured in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Norway, Hong Kong, the U.S. and throughout Canada.