Books

performer + collaborator

Labour—Consumption—Worship. Books is a stage performance with and about bodies and books. In collaboration with 4 performers and 500 books, director Patrick Blenkarn blends durational performance with a theatre of images in an attempt to crack open our cultural devotion to books. Completely non verbal, Books creates a space for reading the body and the book as intertwined in a long and layered history.

Concept and Direction by Patrick Blenkarn

Choreography by Linnea Gwiazda

Performed by Brian Postalian, Nicola Rough, Montserrat Videla Samper, Johnny Wu

Lighting by Celeste English

Projection by Milton Lim

Sound by Sam Ferguson

Photos by Paula Viitanen

January 11-13, 2018
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Vancouver, Canada