march, 2017
Event Details
HEARding Cats Collective
presents
Anthropolgies Imaginaires – Gabriel Dharmoo
6:30pm doors / 7:30pm show
$20 adult / $15 students with ID & artists
(on-sale 2/4/2017)
Winner of the Best International Production at the 2015 Amsterdam Fringe Festival and the Contra Guys Award for Best New Performance Text at the 2016 SummerWorks Festival.
Anthropologies imaginaires (or Imaginary Anthropologies) is a solo vocal performance that interacts with a video mockumentary. The experts on screen comment on invented vocal traditions demonstrated by the singer-performer. Various odd or isolated vocal expressions from around the world are woven together and revisited through imaginary folklore and experimental voice techniques, showcasing the virtuosity, versatility, and strangeness of the human voice.
The result is an aural landscape that questions concepts of normality by reminding audiences how people across the world use the voice differently to convey their cultural identities and artistic sensibilities.
A humorous and disturbing exploration of post-colonialism, post-exoticism, cultural extinction, globalization, normalized racism and cultural appropriation.
http://gabrieldharmoo.org/en/projects/anthropologies-imaginaires