MANUAL by Christopher Willes and Adam Kinner
A one-on-one experience exploring the power of sound and images.
Attended at OFFTA 2022 in Montreal
Attended at OFFTA 2022 in Montreal
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Created by: Adam Kinner and Christopher Willes
Dramaturgy by: Hanna Sybille Müller Performance by: Adam Kinner, Hanna Sybille Müller, and Christopher Willes Sound Contributions from: Michael Davidson, Colin Fisher, THomas Gill, terri Hron, Philippe Lauzier, Germaine Liu, Philippe Melanson, Karen Ng, and Felicity Williams Production Assistance by: Akash Bansal Creation Residencies: Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow) and LA SERRE- arts vivants With the support of: Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Ontario Arts Council, Festival TransAmériques MANUAL is a one-to-one performance that delves into the sensory and social life of sounds and printed images. Staged covertly in a public library, this piece invites viewers to work with a guide to enact a series of tiny actions together – working a collection of disparate materials into a manual for slowing down. They look at and listen to books. Fragments of images, texts, and sound recordings blur into one another. A web of reflections emerges around the act of listening and the intimacy of reading with another person. With MANUAL, Kinner and Willes stage a quiet meditation on the book as a vector of shared attention.
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Image by Christopher Willes
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Awards & Press
“Transcending individual experience, MANUAL is about the intimacy shared between performer and spectator in the reading encounter”- FTA
Commitment Award, given by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
Commitment Award, given by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
Presentations
- OFFTA June 3-5th, 2022
