@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . ns0:identifierAIP "d96e782f-474b-4690-832a-d1162ee20506"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isReferencedBy "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1190017"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "Discorder"@en ; dcterms:creator "CITR-FM (Radio station : Vancouver, B.C.)"@en ; dcterms:issued "2019-01-30"@en, "2018-12-01"@en ; dcterms:description "The following description has been provided by Discorder: \"In this issue, you’ll learn that creativity can thrive in the face of adversity; that compassion is a form of agency and resilience; that when we subvert racism, we gain collective cultural strength; that top-down hierarchies are redundant, outdated; that political complacency and sexism are no longer tolerated; and that voices will find a way to speak through censorship.\""@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/discorder/items/1.0378948/source.json"@en ; dcterms:extent "24 pages"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ 254 EAST HASTINGS STREET 604.681.8915 UPCOMING SHOWS TRIATHALON & THE MARIAS KEVIN KRAUTER DEC AT LANALOU'S: SKATING POLLY & POTTY MOUTH THE FURNITURE THE DUDES SKYEWALLACE f-KftVT ,. 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JFeature* 05 - TELEPRESCENCE Reinventing VR and the Individual Experience 06 - RUBY SMITH-DiAZ Upon the body 08 - MARIA-MARGARETTA Do racists go to art galleries 17 - JULIAN HOU Residency at the Western Front 18 - WRITERLY ASIANS & ALLIES AGAINST #RACISMINCANLIT 2Lob*ter* fiatoe £>ij? spttrtrte JFmger* EDITOR'S NOTE WE [ ... ] SURVIVE. In this issue, you'll learn that creativity can thrive in the face of adversity; that compassion is a form of agency and resilience; that when we subvert racism, we gain collective cultural strength; that top-down hierarchies are redundant, outdated; that political complacency and sexism are no longer tolerated; and that voices will find a way to speak through censorship. 19 - ALL AND Yours, M'aritime N'8V Column* + flDt&er 3>ttiff 10 - Real Live Action Music, mostly 12 - Art Project by Priscilla Yu 13 - December 2018 Calendar 14 - Under Review just music this time 16 - Art Review: Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes at Artspeak 20 - On The Air 120 BPM 21 - CiTR Program Schedule 22 - CiTR Program Guide 23 - November Charts & Top 100 of the 2018 CiTR Charts ADVERTISE: Ad space for upcoming issues can be booked by calling (604) 822-4342 or emailing advertising@citr.ca Rates available upon request. 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Discorder is published almost monthly by CiTR, located on the lower level of the UBC Nest, situated on the traditional unceded territory of the hehqemiriem speaking Musgueam peoples. CiTR can be heard at 101.9 FM, online at citr.ca, as well as through all major cable systems in the Lower Mainland, except Shaw in White Rock. Call the CiTR DJ line at (604) 822-2487, CiTR's office at (604) 822 1242, email CiTR at stationmanager©citr.ca, or pick up a pen and write LL500 - 6133 University Blvd. V6T1Z1, Vancouver, BC, Canada CORRECTION ON THE NOVEMBER 2.018 MASTHEAD: We would like to amend an error in the Masthead section of this page(the blurb of words below the table of contents) in the November 2018 issue of Discorder Magazine. The November 2018 issue of Discorder reads: Editor-in-Chief: Mallory Amirault When it should actually read: Outgoing Editor-in-Chief: Brit Bachmann Incoming Editor-in-Chief: Mallory Amirault I That was my mistake. This is why I proofreading is so important. ■ Credit where credit is due, now back to that magazine. I L rcl. illustration by Megan Pereira. - @ FREDDIE WOOD PRINCE HAMLET Shakespeare's classic gets the update it needs in Ravi Jain's @ RUSSIAN HALL KEYBOARDS Sound artist ASUNA takes battery- powered, analogue keyboards and uses them to create waves of - @ PERFORMANCE WORKS — RINGO The wildly inventive Tetsuya Umeda uses tin cans, dry ice, bowls, hot plates, and more to create an experience so beguiling and unigue as to redefine those very objects. @ PERFORMANCE WORKS- MARGINAL CONSORT hor three nours, tour musicians come together with enough instruments for an orchestra. The improvise ambient, heavily manipulated music, neither fully i harmony nor fully independent of each other. - @ PERFORMANCE WORKS — KIINALIK: THESE SHARP TOOLS A concert, a conversation and a multimedia performance Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools is the meeting pointfortwo people— Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathoryand gueer theatre-maker Evalyn Parry—and two places: Canada's North and South. ■=*—i**"** UJJUA1MUA f you're between the ages of 16-24, you can rush PuSh shows for only $5! details at PUSHFESTIVAL.CA 61-8102 H3THIW| 9nJ50eDm I9b-I032ia EflUfAH PUTTING ON A HEADSET AND EXPERIENCING VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) for the first time could be discombobu- lating, terrifying, exciting or all of the above. Telepresence embraces all the emotions and sensations that come with this generally individualistic experience, but pushes it into a new realm where VR can be experienced collectively. As a performance that transcends a single dimension of physicality, Telepresence is an amalgamation of a live trumpet performance by musician JP Carter, sound design and composition by Kiran Bhumber, virtual environment design by Nancy Lee, while the audience choreographs the piece by moving their bodies in response to both the sounds in the room and the visuals in their headset. The space of the performance can be described as a merging of two physicalities — the performative space of the room where participants can roam while exploring the virtual space that they're immersed in. We sat down with interdisciplinary media artists Nancy, a filmmaker, culture producer and curator, and Kiran, an interdisciplinary media artist, sound designer, curator and educator, to learn more about Telepresence and how it all came together. "Usually in VR, it's a very individualistic experience. You have your headset on and you're kind of in your zone and your own world," says Kiran, "we wanted to create an environment where people are witnessing and experiencing the same thing, they're still in their own environment and their own world, but they're all united through the sound world." Just like going to a concert or movie together with friends, Telepresence proves that VR is no different from a live performance. Nancy believes that experiencing VR collectively, instead of separately, encourages a sociality that extends beyond the piece by bringing people together and encouraging conversations about their own unique experiences with the piece. "It's not just interacting with the piece per say, but it's the interaction that people have with each other before and after seeing the piece. That's what makes a live performance different from an individualistic witnessing of a VR experience." In breaking away from the traditional stage of performance and performer-audience dynamic, Nancy and Kiran invert this hierarchy and give agency to the audience as the creator of their own experience. The audience chooses how to interact with the piece and in effect, choreographs the performance through their gaze and physical movements. "Because we come from a choreographic lens, we really center the body. It's really ELEPRESENCE Reinuenting UR and the Indiuidual Experience words by Jamie Loh & Alex Smyth // Illustration by Rachel Lau // photography by Ashley Sandhu, styling Chris Reed, Make-up Kelsey Tressel and lighting byAndie Lloyd important for us to understand how physical bodies respond to these virtual environments, the sound and to the live performance," Nancy explains. "We want to be mindful that when people come into a space, our bodies are not neutral, we have previous lived experiences, we carry certain traumas, memories. When we come into a live performance, we are not a blank slate." By embracing the diversity of backgrounds, experiences and traditions our bodies carry, Telepresence allows each performance to take shape differently with each audience member. "There are traditions involved in these technologies," Kiran adds, "[We must consider] how these technologies are presented, how [we] work in these traditions, but also [that we] come from tradition." Through a collaborative viewing experience, each audience member is involved, where their individual experience contributes to and enhances a collective one. This strong sense of agency and individualism in a collaborative, collective context not only lies at the core of Telepresence, but also Nancy and Kiran's approach to working in a team. Nancy and Kiran work hard to facilitate a work environment that values creative collaboration and mentorships between team members to uplift each other. By breaking a traditional top-down hierarchy that often comes with working within a large agency or company, Nancy and Kiran make an effort to keep their ten-person team close knit. They create a space that isn't just about them and their vision, but involves the entire team through their individual skills, goals and experiences. With this open and nurturing environment, the piece is not constrained to a fixed vision, but organically takes form through the process of collaboration."Coming from a feminist way of working, we want to value our team and we want to be to develop a strong creative relationship with them," Nancy expresses. "The most important part [is] for them to feel validated and feel like they're also getting just as much as we are from the project." Individual experiences and embodied traditions are carried into the participation or creation of immersive environments and the artists hope to put those embodiments in dialogue with their work. Through a collaborative, process-driven workflow that reflects unique and personal traditions and identities, Nancy hopes that working with these technologies can become open to more women, non-binary folks and underrepresented people. Nancy, Kiran and their team are pushing the limits on the possibilities of VR and as a result, position themselves at the forefront of an emerging industry. This in itself enables them to set the tone for how technologies like VR can grow to become more inclusive and diverse. "With new, emerging technologies, there isn't really a protocol," Nancy explains. "Everytime we do a new project, we're exploring new technologies, but we're also building new protocol. When you can change the protocol and the way the power dynamics work in these new technologies, [you are also offering] a space that will be more inviting for people that [previously] did not have access to this workforce." Nancy and Kiran's unique, process-driven approach and focus on collaborative work, combined with their individual capabilities and skills, set them apart as a powerful team. Together, they are creating work with the potential to change not just the dynamics of existing artistic conventions, but also the politics of access and inclusivity, especially within VR. Their work questions affect inherent within sound and visuals, but more importantly, questions how we exist in an immersive environment, what we bring to it as individuals and how we can share an experience together — whether it's in a VR environment or in real life. Telepresence will debut at Western Front on December 14 and 15 and was produced by Western Front New Music in partnership with Emily Carr University of Art and Design. The project was also supported by Creative BC Music Fund, the Province of British Columbia and Canada Council for the Arts. 'Telepresence' A _ FEATURE Discorder magazine | WINTER 2018-19 "But all our jilirastug-race relations, racial cbasm, racial justice, racial profiling, uiliite privilege, eueu uiliite supremacy—semes to obscure that racism is a uisceral experience, that it bislobges brains, blocks airuiays, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teetb— €be economics, tbe graphs, tbe cbarts, tbe regressions all lanb, uiitb great uiolence, upon tbe bobjh" -Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me It's raining as I write this, but there's a coldness to this city that runs deeper than the weather. I'm thinking of what it feels like to walk down the street in my brown body even on those sunny Coast Salish days that make rain difficult to remember. ^^ AKING TIME TO GREET ME BEFORE M GOING IN and to offer thanks during our ^^^^ conversation Ruby Smith-Diaz is warm in her ], approach, the way she reaches out and the way she seems to warm up a question before responding to it. Our "interview" took place over text message — she lives in a wifi-free apartment — about her community-based entrepreneurial work, passions and art. We conversed between her training clients and working on getting out the next round of shirts for Autonomy Personal Training. Between helping plan a fundraiser for the Tiny House Warriors, taking shifts at a local coffee truck, and preparing an Afro futurism workshop for local colleges and universities through Tierra Negra Arts. Between reading and researching and spending a bit of time with friends and her partner. Between checking out shows and working on new musical concepts. Between taking care of self and home and stopping for a bit to help with banner making for a Community Not Cops, Anti-Police Power rally in Surrey. Born to Chilean and Jamaican parents in Edmonton- amiskwaciwaskahikan (