WESTERN FRONT LIVE STREAM PERFORMANCE, 2021

For her engagement with Western Front, Knight was originally invited to present an exhibition and performance on-site in Vancouver. Within the context of COVID-19, in which travel and public gatherings are restricted, Knight will instead make a new performance to be viewed online. Capitalizing on these limitations, Knight’s new performance draws on her background in performance and video, and further develops a technical structure first employed while in residence at The Kitchen (New York) in the summer of 2020. Here, the frame of a live video stream is the proscenium stage. Using her studio in New York as a set, and working closely with a video production team employing multiple cameras and switchers, Knight’s new work pushes at the edges of what is “live.”

Mar 31, 2021 @ 5:00pm-7:00pm PDT

Curated by Pablo de Ocampo

Camera Operation and Video Design by Ross Karre, Adele Fournet, & Merve Kayan

Sound Performance by Levy Lorenzo

Animations by Valerie Caesar

Sound Source Curation by Autumn Knight

Vimeo Hosting service provided by digitice.org, a project of the International Contemporary Ensemble

This performance was hosted by Western Front, located in Vancouver, Canada.