ILVS STRAUSS
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What do we hear? What do we want to hear?
ILVS is back!
For their fourth offering at Risk/Reward, they’ll present a multimedia performance that blends sound exploration, personal narrative, and movement, to guide the audience through an intentional soundscape. An audiophile delves deep into their experience of a specific song, dissecting the nuances of hearing it on high-end speakers. At the same time, ñ explores the physics of sound, the origin of language, and the basic human need for connection, all wrapped up in humor, introspection, and a bit of mischief from the show’s lead character—a green rabbit. Dueling English / Spanish language supertitles complicate and deepen the show’s themes of connection, digression, and what it really means to perceive something.
Ultimately, ñ (enye) is about exploring what it means to hear, to listen, and to be heard. It’s an invitation to consider the power that sound and language have in shaping the world around us and the way we experience it.
More about the artist:
“From a sociodemographic standpoint, I am a 45 year old educated, queer, mixed-race, white-passing, female bodied, Honduran-American artist. From a non-sociodemographic standpoint, I’m still those things, but manifest in 3D by the ethereal: experience, values, judgement, desire, need, love, motivation, inspiration, etc.
I once had a job as an analytical chemist for a pharmaceutical company (BA Chemistry – OSU) but then slowly pivoted to the arts (MFA Interdisciplinary Arts – SFU). The hats I wear are many and at times I have been known to wear several at once: multi-disciplinary performance artist, writer, dancer, facilitator, technical director, lighting designer, and sound engineer.
Born in the Los Angeles area, I grew up in Portland then moved to Seattle before coming up to Vancouver BC. At present, I have no intention to move further north.”
www.ilvsstrauss.com