So Many Feelings

Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, located on the 2nd floor of Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC

An embodied call-and-response with live singing and projected video, Lucien Durey’s So Many Feelings juxtaposes expectations for the live and recorded performer, creating an emotional and humorous interplay between audience, singers, and screen. This ongoing project was first presented for Regina's Performatorium 2014: Festival of Queer Performance, and its latest 45-minute iteration interweaves picturesque video footage spanning over a decade. Joined by Caroline Ballhorn, Chance Lovett, Amanda Sum, and Mark Wolf, Durey presents new and old chapters that layer heartfelt and comic video performances with live singing, field recordings, and foley.

With Collaborators:
Caroline Ballhorn
Chance Lovett
Amanda Sum
Mark Wolf

Produced with the support of SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts

Lucien Durey is an artist and singer based in West Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. His mixed media and performance-based practice engages with found objects, photographs, sounds, and place. Durey holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and an MFA from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Recent exhibitions include those at The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia; Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver; School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; with performances at Lobe Studio, Vancouver; and Burnaby Art Gallery.

Image credit: Video still from So Many Feelings (2014-), courtesy the artist.