Lalie Douglas is going to take your fears away….
In time for the season of spring-cleaning type activities comes a spring-cleaning-of-the-mind based in performative and interactive art, in the form of an articule Special Project run by local artist Lalie Douglas. Take your fears away is a project that, similar to a side-of-the-road gas station that simply declares, “PETROL”, fulfills exactly what it suggests it will. Nothing coquettish here, folks, just plain and simple fear-ridding-techniques.
The basics: you email Lalie (takeyourfearsaway@gmail.com) with whatever fears you might wish to be no longer, and Douglas will then go to Calgary with those fears to, “be transformed into site specific installations, performances and other interventions designed to symbolically overcome, diminish and otherwise seek to remove the power these fears may hold over you.”
How cool does that sound? How appropriate that Montrealers and Calgarians (Is that right? are you people Calgarians? It’s not like you’re called Rodeogonians or something….?) SWAP fears? Douglas is almost re-enacting what happens on a psychic level daily.
Our Quebec-infused versions of psychoses and terrors will be collected in the month of April and May, and then Douglas will travel with them to Calgary, to return to us in June to present, expel, and rid Rodeogonians of their fears here. I expect to see clear suitcases of grade A beef strewn across St.Laurent with a few papier-mache oil rigs here and there…but just as one’s treasurer is another’s junk, so too is one’s nightmare another’s dream. I guess we’ll find out.
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Yup, we’re Calgarians. Nice going Monsieur Montrealer!
(ugh. rodeogonians… don’t get me started on the dudes that the rodeo attracts. that’s not a bad name to make fun of them with!)