Parallel 07: Martin Howse (UK)

Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 8pm

ANNEX (823 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor) [map]

Artist chat at 7:15pm.

 

Workshops: March 12–14, 2025 hosted in partnership with Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Full schedule and registration details TBA.

For the 7th installment of our popular Parallels series, Martin Howse (UK) will lead a 3-day community workshop at ECUAD’s WIP Lab, leading to a live performance at the ANNEX on March 15, featuring Howse and the workshop participants.

Howse is occupied with an investigation of the links between the earth (geophysical phenomena), software and the human psyche (psychogeophysics) through the construction of experimental situations (performance, laboratories, walks, and workshops), material art works and texts. Howse has worked and collaborated on acclaimed projects and practices such as The Crystal World, Psychogeophysics, Earthboot, Sketches towards an Earth Computer and Dissolutions. For the last ten years he has initiated numerous open-laboratory style projects and performed, published, lectured and exhibited worldwide. He is equally the creator of the ERD modular synthesizer series.

 

The Parallels series combines networking and performance opportunities for emerging and local artists, with hands-on learning and creative exploration in collaboration with well-known, established artists. With this project we foster safe places for cultural exchange, dialogue and creative envisioning, while supporting local artists involved in community engagement through open calls and expanded community engagement programs that build upon the above-mentioned established activities. Further to all this, we also believe and work in light of a strong commitment to renewal and re-envisioning modality of presentation, engagement and research.

PARALLELS is a workshop-performance series curated by VNM that brings acclaimed local, national and internationally based artists together with local musicians to create unique, collaborative performances. Previous editions of the series have included – Parallel 01: Uri Caine + Ensemble, Parallel 02: Okkyung Lee + ensemble, Parallel 03: Endlings + collaborators, Parallel 04: UNION Immersed, Parallel 05: Erin Gee and Parallel 06: Ioana Vreme Moser.

Top image: Martin Howse Sketches for an earth computer. Photo by iMAL.org.