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Phin Performing Arts

Pendulum (work in progress)

what will remain?

 

Centred around the potential of massive societal pendulum shifts, and our tendency as humans to go too far and initiate an inevitable pendulum back-swing, we investigate the physicality of balance, critical mass, and shift.  This work is rooted in a thought experiment, questioning whether the past 200 years of consumption and ‘progress’ may lead us to the endpoint of a pendulum swing, where we may soon swing back to a future of non-consumption, a moment that more closely resembles the distant past.  What vestiges will remain? Work-in-progress, then known as Future:Retro, performed at Kinetic Studio, 2024.

what will remain?

Centred around the potential of massive societal pendulum shifts, and our tendency as humans to go too far and initiate an inevitable pendulum back-swing, we investigate the physicality of balance, critical mass, and shift.  This work is rooted in a thought experiment, questioning whether the past 200 years of consumption and ‘progress’ may lead us to the endpoint of a pendulum swing, where we may soon swing back to a future of non-consumption, a moment that more closely resembles the distant past.  What vestiges will remain? Work-in-progress, then known as Future:Retro, performed at Kinetic Studio, 2024.

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Image: Lauren Runions, Nathaniel “Natorious” Dooks, Sarah Rozee, Lisa Phinney Langley, and Emma Kerson in Future:Retro.  Photo by Kevin MacCormack.

Lauren Runions and Emma Kerson in Retro/Future.  Photo by Kevin MacCormack.

Lauren Runions and Emma Kerson in Retro/Future. Photo by Kevin MacCormack.

Lisa Phinney Langley in Retro/Future.  Photo by Kevin MacCormack.

Lisa Phinney Langley in Retro/Future. Photo by Kevin MacCormack.

Nathaniel "Natorious" Dooks and Sarah Rozee in Retro/Future.  Photo by Kevin MacCormack.

Nathaniel "Natorious" Dooks and Sarah Rozee in Retro/Future. Photo by Kevin MacCormack.

Inspirations for Pendulum (aka Future:Retro)

"Sleeping in the Forest" by Mary Oliver

"Sleeping in the Forest" by Mary Oliver

Painting by Simon Stälenhag

Painting by Simon Stälenhag

Painting by Simon Stälenhag

Painting by Simon Stälenhag

Painting by Simon Stälenhag

Painting by Simon Stälenhag

Phin Performing Arts operates on the ancestral lands of Mi’kma’ki, in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. We are grateful to share these lands with the Mi’kmaw people.  We respect these lands and their original inhabitants, including the animals and people who have walked here before us, and aim to tread lightly on the earth out of respect for its future inhabitants.  

 

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