{"id":15,"date":"2015-02-09T23:36:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demolid.com\/heatherhermant\/?p=15"},"modified":"2018-06-14T01:39:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:39:56","slug":"ribcage-this-wide-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"ribcage:  this wide passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?attachment_id=17'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ribcage_back-still-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-17\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-17'>\n\t\t\t\tvideo still Shahin Parhami and Melina Young\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?attachment_id=20'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ribcage_sal-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-20\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-20'>\n\t\t\t\tvideo still Shahin Parhami and Melina Young\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?attachment_id=19'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ribcage_face-close-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19'>\n\t\t\t\tvideo still Shahin Parhami and Melina Young\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?attachment_id=18'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ribcage_archivist-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-18\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-18'>\n\t\t\t\tphoto Tim Matheson\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cThe archive breathes, it sings, it is alive in this room.\u201d<br \/>\n-Tara Lee, CBC Radio<\/p>\n<p><em>ribcage: this wide passage<\/em> is a 70 minute performance created and performed by Heather Hermant, directed by Diane Roberts with live music composed by Jaron Freeman-Fox and originally live-mixed video installations by Kaija Siirala. Performed in English as well as in French, translated by Nadine Desrochers as <em>thorax : une cage en \u00e9clats<\/em>. ribcage takes as its inspiration the documented story of Esther Brandeau \/ Jacques La Fargue, a purportedly Jewish woman from the south of France who arrived to Canada in 1738 passing as a Christian man, was outed, held under house arrest and ultimately deported purportedly for refusing to convert to Christianity. They are known as \u201cthe first Jewish woman in Canada.\u201d A third-person voice testimony claims that Brandeau lived as a man and worked across France for five years before arriving to Quebec. <em>ribcage: this wide passage<\/em>\u00a0builds on years of archival research in several countries, and is an interdisciplinary performance work integrating spoken word, narration, physical theatre, video installation, soundscapes and fiddle music. Workshopped for Tremors Festival, Vancouver (2010); premiered at Le MAI Montr\u00e9al Arts Interculturels (2010); French version first shown at AKI Studio Theatre, Toronto (2013); and part of the 2014-2015 season at Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver. An urban ink production, Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>View excerpts of <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/73170354\" target=\"_blank\">thorax : une cage en \u00e9clats.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/73170354\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/73170354\">Extraits, THORAX : UNE CAGE EN \u00c9CLATS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For booking please contact <a href=\"mailto:touring@urbanink.ca\">touring@urbanink.ca<\/a> For more work based on Brandeau \/ La Fargue, a figure I have followed through multiple projects over a decade, see <a title=\"Aujourdhuy \/ This Day 1738\" href=\"http:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?p=24\">Aujourdhuy \/ This Day 1738<\/a> and my <a title=\"Academic Publications\" href=\"http:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?page_id=64\">academic research<\/a>, where Brandeau \/ La Fargue has been the centre of my doctoral work.<\/p>\n<p>This work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and residencies at Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency and hub14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe archive breathes, it sings, it is alive in this room.\u201d<br \/>\n-Tara Lee, CBC Radio&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,7,2,9,8,5,6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}