M:ST Press Releases
MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release
18.09.07
Internationally acclaimed artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan to present Scentbar performance in Calgary
Join us at Art Central from October 3rd – 6th to experience Scentbar: Fragrances for Troubled Times - a unique and personalized performance unlike any other. Co-presented by the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival (M:ST), EMMEDIA, and The New Gallery, this event is free of charge and open to the public.
Scentbar welcomes the audience into a performance installation that provides a service and a sense of participation in an exclusive consumer-cultural experience. In Scentbar, clients are asked a variety of questions about their memories. Using the results of these questions, a technician then creates an individualized formula to reflect the clients’ anxieties and desires. However, comfort, cleanliness and luxury are undermined by the promotional video of malodourous disasters and by the product itself, which draws upon ambivalent memory-evoking contemporary scents such as rental car and light industry.
About the Artists
Winnipeg multi-disciplinary artists Shawna Demspey and Lorri Millan have been working in collaboration that has spanned well over a decade. Together they have created a body of internationally acclaimed work that addresses feminist, lesbian, and social concerns with biting wit. www.fingerinthedyke.ca
For more information about dates, times, and booking an appointment, please visit the M:ST website at www.mstfestival.org.
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For more information media can contact:
Nicole Burisch
Interim Festival Coordinator
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival
(403) 263-2833
director@mstfestival.org
M:ST gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, The Calgary Foundation, Art Central and our members, volunteers and the Calgary community.
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
P.O. Box 22056 Bankers Hall R.P.O, Calgary, AB CA T2P 5G7
PH. 403.837.6678 email: info@mstfestival.org