Of Sound Minds Presents: Unlike the snail, we carry our homes within us
A performance installation by: Peter Hatch and Matthew Talbot-Kelly
Featuring performers: Cicela Månsson (voice), Meredith Bates (violin), Kathryn Cernauskas (flute), François Houle (clarinet), John Whitelaw (trombone, melodica, drum)
Beaver Point Hall, Salt Spring Island
August 31 2025
Shows at 2pm and 4:30pm
$25: e-transfer
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Unlike the snail, we carry our homes within us premieres a guided “audio tour” of this mixed environment performance installation, featuring both pre-recorded and live performance sound compositions by Salt Spring Island’s Peter Hatch, with visual counterpoints by Sunshine Coast-based Matthew Talbot-Kelly. Their second collaboration, Peter and Matthew share a history of questioning artistic institutions (classical performance art and museums) through artistic interventions and the use of found objects; they have both been informed by Eastern philosophies including via John Cage.
Public spaces including artistic ones have become less communal and more of a disconnected collection of individuals shut off into their own worlds/shells, divided and isolated by the very technologies that promised multiplicities of connection. Who have we become as individuals and as communities within this new space/time governed by uncertainty? How can listening open possibilities for connection, being in the moment, and building community?
We invite audience participants into an experiential meditation on literal and conceptual snails, shells, homes, the diaspora, borders and boundaries, identity, relationships, water, memory, space, time, sounds, and silence. For an hour, we will encourage participants to respond with meditative openness: to contemplate the connections and disconnections among sounds, sights, and one another as we are joined together through the similar space of the hall and the many visual and audio elements of the installation while all experiencing a different piece depending on where we are located in the hall at a particular moment and what routes taken.
Participants will be lent a set of headphones to listen to the non-linear and playful audio guide of the piece. Sounds will also emanate from the performers, the radian speakers, and one another, with attention paid to the relationship between “inner” and “outer” sounds. The musicians will be following a moving score of circular time “dials,” guiding their structured improvisations. Everyone will be encouraged to move freely and mindfully through the space, observing the performers; interacting with the museum pieces; and experiencing the interaction of the sounds and sights with the Community Hall itself in a multiplicity of meanings and where the line between performers and audience will become blurred.
Part of his ongoing “Curiosity museum” project, Matthew’s contributions reconfigure flotsam and jetsam, juxtaposing, contradicting, colliding these stuffs in all manner of enigmatic ways. These works are assemblages of fragmented stories – non-conclusive, non-linear, partially revealing and partially concealing, stimulating a larger presence from their various absences. They engage and dwell in the in-between, between sense and non-sense, between occupying space and defining space, between analog and digital, the tangible and the ephemeral.
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