SURRENDERR
Performance by artist Andros Zins-Browne followed by a discussion led by Catherine Lavoie-Marcus
Presented in collaboration with Tribune 840
Galerie de l’UQAM
In French and English
Free admission
Andros Zins-Browne presents SurrEndErr, a performance of voice, movement, and text that explores the merits of letting go. Conjuring acts of resistance and resilience, attempts at holding on to and persevering through, the performance turns to surrender as an alternate beginning, a forceful physical practice and a soft political praxis, a giving up that is not a giving in. Reckoning and reconnecting with loss as an attribute and a gift, SurrEndErr is a ceremony of offerings, a collection of sacrifices, a history of forfeits, summoning what is gained through acts of giving away.
About Andros Zins-Browne
The work of United States-based artist Andros Zins-Browne brings together dance performances and hybrid environments at the intersection between installation, performance and conceptual dance. His practice explores the interactions between the human body, movement and matter. Zins-Browne’s works have been shown at Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), at Dance Umbrella (London, England), at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), and at Kaaitheater (Brussels, Belgium).
About Catherine Lavoie-Marcus
Catherine Lavoie-Marcus is an interdisciplinary artist and live art researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Since 2009, she has been presenting choreographic works in various contexts: on stage, in situ, in art galleries and museums. She publishes zines, articles and essays to share her theoretical research, and, from 2014 to 2019, she has a free writing column in Esse magazine with Michel F Côté. For the 2022 edition of Festival TransAmériques, the pair launches the literary oddity Danses à venir, a collection of 161 dance proposals that speculate on choreographic art and its future. Catherine holds a PhD in Art Practice and Studies from UQAM.
