{"id":1386,"date":"2016-01-05T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2016-03-23T10:29:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:29:45","slug":"say-something-bunny-gallery-tpw-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/say-something-bunny-gallery-tpw-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Something Bunny! Gallery TPW February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><figure id=\"attachment_1388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1388\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Say-Something-Bunny-Poster-Image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1388\" title=\"Say Something Bunny Poster Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Say-Something-Bunny-Poster-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Say-Something-Bunny-Poster-Image.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Say-Something-Bunny-Poster-Image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Say-Something-Bunny-Poster-Image-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"post-13851\">\n<p>Say Something Bunny!<br \/>\nFebruary 13 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c March 26, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Gallery TPW<br \/>\n170 St Helens Ave, Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Performance Dates:<br \/>\nFriday, February 5, 8pm (Performance Preview)<br \/>\nSaturday, February 6, 8pm<br \/>\nFriday, February 12, 8pm<br \/>\nSaturday, February 13, 2pm, opening reception at 5pm<\/p>\n<p>Alison S.M. Kobayashi is an identity contortionist. In her work, Kobayashi performs a variety of characters that are both studiously and playfully rendered. These personas are inspired by Kobayashi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extensive collection of lost, discarded and donated objects; ranging from answering machine tapes purchased at a secondhand shop to a love letter left on a sidewalk. Through repeated interaction with the objects \u00e2\u20ac\u201d deep listening, research, re-enactment and play \u00e2\u20ac\u201d narratives and imagery begin to manifest and inspire new work. The results are funny, low-fi artifacts of an artist embodying the lives of others.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00c2\u00a0<em>Say Something Bunny!<\/em> Kobayashi presents a new performance and exhibition based on two audio spools hidden inside an obsolete wire recorder purchased at an estate sale. The recordings capture the voices of a New York family spanning 1952 to 1954. The narrative contained in the recording is a puzzle peppered with fragmented and overlapping dialogue, a charming living room drama rich with the eccentricities of family dynamics performed for the tape recorder. Decoding the document and using it as both soundtrack and inspiration, Kobayashi creates a new installation containing videos, drawings and a book work that reimagine the events, characters, and references from the recording.<\/p>\n<p>Over several performances, an intimate audience is privy to a script \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcread through\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 where Kobayashi acts as both director and performer, contextualizing the recording with her research (and imagination) and tangentially exploring character\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal histories \u00e2\u20ac\u201d from the Ivy league to the pornographic. In Kobayashi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s practice, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153personal histories get farther from fact as we learn to tell a better story.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<em>Say Something Bunny!<\/em> plays with what authentic memory is, preserving narrative details from source material and fictionalizing the rest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say Something Bunny! February 13 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c March 26, 2016 Gallery TPW 170 St Helens Ave, Toronto Performance Dates: Friday, February 5, 8pm (Performance Preview) Saturday, February 6, 8pm Friday, February 12, 8pm Saturday, February 13, 2pm, opening reception at 5pm Alison S.M. Kobayashi is an identity contortionist. In her work, Kobayashi performs a variety of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asmk.ca\/WP\/say-something-bunny-gallery-tpw-february-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say Something Bunny! 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