Concert: El Rass الراس | Toronto
June 24, 2023 - June 24, 2023Critical Distance is thrilled to co-present El Rass in concert with MARSM Canada at Adelaide Hall on June 24, as part of the exhibition Garden of Broken Shadows, curated by Fatma Hendawy Yehia. As part of his first tour in Canada, El Rass, known for his critical lyrics and performances, will engage with the exhibition’s topics around identity, immigration and adaptation through a vernacular yet deeply philosophical language. Tickets on sale through MARSM Canada.
This event is part of the public programming of the exhibition Garden of Broken Shadows.
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Performance: CORPS ROCA presents L’ESPÈCE MOLLE
June 22, 2021 - June 22, 2021FREE Event – Click HERE to Register.
***This event will take place on Zoom in English with ASL translation. Related texts are available in Spanish, French and English. The performance will also include a Live Audio Description and Captioning. Please contact emily@criticaldistance.ca with any access concerns.***
CORPS ROCA is an evolving and ongoing work, initiated by the artist in 2018 as part of a residency at Verticale, centre d’artistes in Laval. The work centres Hernandez Camacho’s performances where she embodies and gives voice to a rock. Using humour to critically question humanity’s relationship with the environment, the rock re-narrates the evolution of the planet, citing itself—rather than humans—as the most evolved species on Earth. Hernandez Camacho’s act of camouflage as a rock seeks to incite a change in perspective in viewing the non-human as inanimate and unimportant. Rather, in embodying the rock as a walking and talking being, she questions dominant ways of thinking about the non-human as lifeless matter only existing as a backdrop for humanity, and imagines what would shift if humans treated the non-human as its equal.
Hernandez Camacho builds CORPS ROCA through interactive performances in public space. In the written story of the work, there are two main characters so far: the rock and l’espèce molle (meaning “the soft species,” also known as the human species).
In this live performance which will be screened via Zoom, Hernandez Camacho will explore and show us characteristics of the soft species, from the perspective of the rock. The actions, sounds and images of this presentation are based on her own investigations from past performances, and the observations and responses that she has experienced when interpreting the rock.