Pique: Spring Edition 2022
Pique is back with its second season of forward-thinking artist-driven music and multimedia arts programming, and we are thrilled to announce the season-opener hybrid spring edition on March 19, 2022 at the Arts Court and online at thisispique.com.
Produced by Ottawa’s leading independent and underground presenter Debaser, the all-ages pay-what-you-can event will feature boundary-pushing live music performances, visual art installations, in-person and on-demand online screenings, and interactive web based digital art.
Pique is experimental in form and content. The spring edition features:
Live full ensemble performance by LA-based alternative pop music artist Ah-Mer-Ah-Su
Live music performance by art-pop musician Sook-Yin Lee, featuring music off her most recent release, jooj two, a playful and experimental indie pop album written by Sook-Yin Lee and Adam Litovitz, performed as a celebration of the life of Adam Litovitz
Live ambient music performance by evocative multi-genre Montreal-based producer, DJ, composer, and cellist Ouri
Body-moving hyperpop beats by Club Quarantine co-founder and alternative electronic music producer Casey MQ
‘A vivid coalition’: an installation featuring the vibrant abstract fibre works of local artist Mesoma Onyeagba, inspired by her love of colour, patterns, and Nigerian culture
‘Liquid Bytes’ an interactive, generative web-based artwork of cyborg Ajeeb Sir, a web-based human-machine duo playing with 90’s retro-futurist ideas and aesthetics (010101101010110101010010101)
A screening of Shortbus (2006, Dir. John Cameron Mitchell, starring Sook-Yin Lee) followed by Q&A with Sook-Yin Lee, co-presented with the International Film Festival of Ottawa (IFFO)
Live performance by Nigeria-born Ottawa-based Afro-Soul artist KAR33M
Live performance by Ottawa-born Montreal-based 80s-inspired indie-pop crooner NOVEMBER
Live performance by Slayverii, the local multi-genre artist who aims to push boundaries for Black Trans women in not only her music - but society as a whole
‘Faceless’ : media art piece by local multi-disciplinary artist Z, exploring a sense of invisibility and isolation in online spaces as a young, Black, trans person during the pandemic
Video performance by Edmonton-based (Treaty Six Territory) textile/new media artist Kelly Ruth, featuring footage of Ruth’s unique manipulation and amplification of the sounds of her weaving loom and textile tools, juxtaposed with footage of Ruth’s simultaneous performance as her virtual avatar manipulating a 3D rendering of her loom in Second Life
.. and MORE TBA.
Pique is produced in partnership with the Arts Court, the Ottawa Art Gallery, SAW, Artengine, DAÏMÔN, Digital Arts Resource Centre, IFFO, Ottawa Fringe, Ottawa Dance Directive, Firegrove Studio, Wall Sound, Le Seltzer, Dominion City Brewing Co, Also Cool, Ottawa Fringe, Ottawa Dance Directive, CKCU FM, CHUO FM, and Apt613. Pique is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, FACTOR, the Government of Canada, City of Ottawa, SOCAN Foundation.
Cost: Pay-what-you-can with a suggested donation of $25-$50. Tickets are on sale now on Eventbrite.
For more information contact: Rachel Weldon at hello@debaser.ca. For participating artists’ images and biographies, visit here.
