PERFORMANCE

Erin Hill is a dance artist, writer, and birth support practitioner. Erin’s field of research constellates cyclicality and notions of time, and figures magic as an embodied form of translation where notions of congruence and consent can be fleshed out. Through observational practices, she seeks alternatives to alignments of linearity, building relations with ecological protagonists such as the sun (Sunrise Commitment, 2018) and weather (Deep Gazing, 2020). Erin holds a Master’s from DAS Theatre (formerly DasArts) in Amsterdam, and will begin a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University in autumn 2024. Erin makes home as a settler in Tiotiàh:ke.

Adam Kinner is an artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, originally from the area around Washington, D.C. He works provisionally and across forms, taking a research-based, improvisatory and collaborative approach, often working with artists from dance and music. His work takes the form of concerts, writings, exhibitions, stage works, and in situ performances. Recent projects have been shown at the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke), Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow), PuSH International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (Saint-Jérôme), the Art Gallery of York University (Toronto), Regart (Lévis), Artexte (Montréal), and Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montréal). With the artist Christopher Willes, he co-created MANUAL in 2022, a one-on-one performance in a public library that toured extensively in the UK, Canada, and Japan. In 2023, an experimental feature-length documentary film he created with director Olivier Godin premiered in Lisbon and then played in Spain and extensively in Québec. As a musician, he has played on countless albums and soundtracks, collaborating with artists like Leif Vollebekk, Suuns, and Tune-Yards, to name but a few. Along with Jacob Wren, he co-directs the orchestra The Air Contains Honey. His writing has been published in FENCE (New York), The Capilano Review (Vancouver) and Cigale (Montreal). Adam holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Naomi McCarroll-Butler is a saxophonist, clarinetist, and instrument maker based in Montréal and Toronto. She is interested in the elegance of the overtone series, breathwork in the unique somatic journey of trans and gender-non-conforming people, and the creation of trance environments through drone, repetition, and fluid tuning systems. An active collaborator, Naomi plays with Jeremy Dutcher, The Queer Songbook Orchestra, Pinksnail, Colin Fisher, Liberté-Anne Lymberiou, Germaine Liu, Juliet Palmer, Labyrinth Ensemble, Karen Ng, and many others. Her work as a composer and improviser has been featured by the Canadian Music Centre, POP Montréal, Women From Space Festival, The Music Gallery, and the Guelph Jazz Festival. The Toronto Jazz Festival selected Naomi as the inaugural recipient of the Immersive Artist in Residence program in 2022, commissioning her to write and perform a piece for a 13-piece large ensemble.

Frédérique Roy is a musician, composer, and writer. The debut album of her ensemble Lune très belle was released by Wild Silence (France), and her first collection of poems was published by l’Oie de Cravan (Montréal). Her second album, Ovale, came out on Boiled Records (Toronto) in 2023. She collaborates with musicians, choreographers and writers in various settings and has presented work in Mexico, Toronto, Victoriaville (FIMAV), and Montréal (OFFTA, Dazibao, Suoni per Il Popolo, POP Montréal). She plays with Splendide Abysse, The Air Contains Honey orchestra, Stone Bonnets Choir, House of Gold (SOFA Label), Eugénie Jobin, Gabriel Drolet, and others. Frédérique has also been involved in concert programming, zine publishing, and vocal and somatic workshopping. She works in psycho-social accompaniment for Club Ami, a day center offering alternative resources to psychiatrized people.