Name: CO-LAB 1: RECORD
Start: 2025-10-10T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-10T20:30:00-07:00
Location: SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

CO-LAB 1: RECORD

Part of the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University, the School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) offers a dynamic and integrated arts curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate level. Our undergraduate programs in visual culture and performance studies, dance, film, music, theatre, and visual art are focused on developing creative artists and scholars who are equipped to excel in a transforming world.Over its thirty-eight year history, the SCA has produced outstanding alumni who have gone on to play a major role in redefining the arts in Canada. The interdisciplinary MFA program is widely recognized internationally as a unique opportunity where graduate students can explore connections between art forms and develop their own creative voice.

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SCA's Co-Lab class presents a triptych of devised works--Record, Rewind + Replay, and Recall.

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SCA's Co-Lab Triptych: Memory Pavilion

SCA's Co-Lab class presents a triptych of devised works--Record, Rewind + Replay, and Recall.
Get tickets for the second presentation: Co-Lab 2: REWIND + REPLAY, Nov 6 + 7, 2025 at 7:30pm

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Warnings: Profanity, stobe lighting, filming, violence, offensive subject matter.As this triptych of works is a work-in-progress, please check the <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/events/memory-pavilion.html" title="https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/events/memory-pavilion.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website</a> for detailed warnings prior to performances or contact the box office at gca_guestservices@sfu.ca.

CO-LAB 1: RECORD has two performances. This is for the Friday, October 10 at 7:30 pm show.If you would like to attend the Thursday, October 9 at 7:30 pm performance, please click <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/manage/events/1708888203619/details" title="https://www.eventbrite.ca/manage/events/1708888203619/details" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

Students collaborated on three devised pieces for CO-LAB, inspired by the theme of the Memory Pavilion, forming a triptych titled RECORD, REWIND + REPLAY, and RECALL. Each work explores the act of recording, rewinding, replaying, and recalling memory—through text, movement, sound, and design.Obsessed with being remembered and driven by a desire to construct our existence through the act of recalling memories—through both digital and physical means—we found ourselves standing in the gaps and glitches of the mind, both collective and individual, attempting to piece together why we record at all, and what it might ultimately lead to. A collective archive, a mirror to the present, a fragmented truth, a form of resistance—or simply our need to press a hand into the cave walls of the universe?We gathered a wide range of source material: from the expanding realm of surveillance, the film After Life by Hirokazu Koreeda, the Golden Record, and Janet Cardiff's Opera for a Small Room, to the works of Ant Farm and LST, Martin Kunze’s Memory of Mankind project, the writings of James Baldwin, and the evocative line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “To the last syllable of recorded time.” We examined artists who center memory in their practice, and those who integrate film to create tightly choreographed live-cinema—where the camera’s pressure on the actor’s body becomes a close-up of the ephemeral, a visceral lens into our shared human condition.

Please note, latecomers will not be permitted and refunds will not be issued for any missed performances.No re-entry once the performances begins.

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