The 2013 SummerWorks Performance Festival, Canada’s largest juried performance festival announces broadcaster, filmmaker, musician and actor Sook-Yin Lee, along with Benjamin Kamino and Adam Litovitz as the Festival’s Artists-in-Residence. SummerWorks Performance Festival runs August 8th-18th, 2013
“Sook-Yin Lee is one of the most engaged, enigmatic and boundless artists of our generation and I’m obscenely glad she decided to create live performance so we can work with her,” says Michael Rubenfeld, Artistic Producer of SummerWorks Performance Festival.
The wonderfully cooky Sook-Yin Lee comes to SummerWorks with How Can I Forget?
For their three-week residency, Lee, Kamino and Litovitz will be developing their performance work How Can I Forget? Originally created in partnership with the 2013 Rhubarb Festival, the piece explores the tension between remembering and forgetting. Conceived and proposed by Lee, the piece debuts original video, photography and a music score that reprises radically different treatments of the same song. They will be working with an additional director through a three week workshop process with showings of the work on Friday August 9th, Saturday August 10th, and Sunday August 11th at the Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington Ave.) Tickets are now on sale for these performances.
On her residency with the Festival Lee says, “We are thrilled for the opportunity to develop How Can I Forget? with a guest co-director, who is our first outside pair of eyes to influence the work. Thank you SummerWorks Artistic Producer, Michael Rubenfeld, for making it happen and for recognizing the value of the work. Now, let’s get our hands dirtier.”
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