Interrarium - 2005/2006

The Schedule | The Monitors | The Participants

in-terr-arium: (n.) An event that nurtures interdisciplinary practices resulting in creative growth, critical perspectives and new creations that blur the line between disciplines.  From inter- (prefix) between, among, and terrarium (n.) a sealed glass container that is used for cultivating living entities

Grace Joe Ink - with Interrarium Monitors Joe Laughlin and jamie griffiths
January 15-16, 9:30 PM
Big Secret Theatre $18.00

*make it an evening of spectacular dance -
before Grace, go see
Montreal Danse, Julia to Emile, 1945
January 15-16 7:30 PM
Vertigo Playhouse Theatre*

Before beginning their creative process with the Interrarium participants, monitors Laughlin and griffiths present Grace. Joe Laughlin is an award-winning dancer/choreographer and the artistic director of Joe Ink. jamie griffiths is an international gallery artist and experimental film director. Together they have forged a “new media duet” that will appeal to both adventurous dance fans and computer geeks.

In a distant galaxy, a cyber scientist seeks the source of humanity within her captive: a newly minted human subject. The dancer and the visualist manipulate banks of equipment by engaging interactive visual software, remote wireless cameras, and triggering motion and audio sensors.


Hyrdaponic #1 (monitors: Joe Laughlin, jamie griffiths)
January 22, 3:00 PM
Engineered Air Theatre $18.00

Hyrdaponic #2 (monitors: Denise Clarke, David Hoffos)
January 22, 29, 3:00 PM
Engineered Air Theatre $18.00

A public performance of the multi-headed beast that grew from creative collaboration of theatre, dance, new media, visual artists & writers including Tom Andriuk, Jennifer Clarke, Lucas Gilbertson, Shelly Guhle, Helen Husak, Amy Kubanek, Lily Marquez, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, Jennifer Roberts, Carrie Schiffler, Holly Schmidt, Aaron Talbot and Mike Unrau.

More about the Participants

creative energy = cultural mass x speed of creation 2

Each week involves six days of intensive creation time culminating in a public performance. Working in teams of 3-4, a mix of interdisciplinary artists work like high-intensity idea-machines, under the gracious guidance of our benevolent monitors. What will come of such experiments in creative horticulture? Each weeks' public performance (Sunday Jan 22, Sun Jan 29 3:00 pm) is a dizzying sampling of what can happen in a well-fertilized environment.

Rub Up Against This!
January 22, 5:00 PM
Engineered Air Theatre – Free
Part of the Jaw Music Performance Studies Speakers Series

More about the Speakers Series

Join facilitator Slavica Ceperkov (Banff New Media Institute), Michael Green (OYR), Nicole Mion (Springboard Dance), Gerry Thurston (U of C), Denise Clarke, jamie griffiths, David Hoffos, Joe Laughlin and the Interrarium participants to for a casual discussion of new media and performance.

In Week One, monitors Joe Laughlin (Vancouver, Joe Ink) and Jamie Griffiths (Vancouver, Primal Divine) shape an exploration of "Interactive New Media and Performance". In Week Two, David Hoffos (Lethbridge, independent new media artist) and Denise Clarke (Calgary, One Yellow Rabbit) transcribe "Narrative in New Media and Performance Practice". Both come together with the participants and other creative thinkers to discuss inter-disciplinary creation, new media, collaboration, and intensive workshop processes.