Liliona Quarmyne & Mo Dresch

In Residence at Hermes Gallery

September 14 - 25, 2020
*Wednesday evening Public Event cancelled due to storm

Hermes Gallery is excited to present Artists in Residence Liliona Quarmyne and Mo Dresch. For the next two weeks, they will be working together on the development of their multidisciplinary project titled Waves/Disruption. As part of this residency, Liliona and Mo will be offering several dates/times in the studio that will be open and available to the public (see below for details).


WAVES/DISRUPTION
feeling distance. vulnerability. protection. listening.

Waves of change and disruption crash at our collective securities and insecurities, shaping and reshaping our relationships to ourselves, each other and the systems that support and oppress us.

Waves/Disruption explores listening, relationship, distance, protection, and technology through “tech” messages. If the ways that we sense each other are pulled from us, can we still experience connection?

Move, sound, feel, play, pass it forward. Be curious.
Can we feel each other across space and time?
What shapes of connection will arise?
How will we meet ourselves and each other in unexpected ways?


Open Studio with Liliona & Mo

Monday September 14th 9-12:30
Wednesday September 16th 11-5
Friday September 18th- TBD
Tuesday September 22nd- 9-5
Wednesday September 23rd 9-1
Friday September 25th 12-4
*Wednesday evening Public Event has been cancelled due to storm.

You can also connect with them on instagram: @postportalproject

Note: If you attend the gallery during open studio hours, please wear a mask, practice social distancing (6ft apart) and note a max of 4 people in gallery at a time (including artists in residence).

Liliona Quarmyne has an eclectic background and a diverse set of trainings and experiences. As a result, she wears many hats – choreographer, dancer, actor, singer, community organizer, and facilitator. Liliona’s work stems from the idea of the body as story - an ever shifting, layered meeting place of moments and memory that is constant conversation with time, space, land, and other bodies. Liliona sees her body as a link to past and to future generations. She choreographs and dances across Canada and internationally, creates and performs original works as an independent artist, facilitates community programming, and is the Artistic Director of Kinetic Studio.  Her scope of work is broad, but is particularly focused on the relationship between art and social justice, on the body’s ability to carry ancestral memory, and on the role the performing arts can play in creating change.
lilionaq.com
@lilionaq

Mo Dresch is a queer trans poly-disciplinary artist. They primarily work with drawing, mark making and movement and performance. Mo works to find care, justness and inspiration through collaborative relationships and emergent process. They allow the world to move through their body into new shapes and possible futures. Mo is engaged in ongoing studies and practices of justice, embodied knowing, critical phenomenology, cultural organizing, anti-racism and gender galaxies.  Mo studied fine art at NSCAD University and Naropa University and continued their studies of graphic recording at The Grove in San Francisco. They work as a facilitator and graphic recorder and own Brave Space, a company that offers design, facilitation and graphics.
Bravespace.ca          
@brave_space
@bravemomo