Manitoba Yellow Pages
A Scorebook for Movement and Sound
Co-Presented by Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival and
Young Lungs Dance Exchange
Generously supported by Safe at Home MB and the Government of
Manitoba
Telephone Game E
Video Editor: Rowan Gray
Contributing Artists (in game order):
Christopher de Guzman | Julian Beutel | Alexandra Elliott | Savant Flaneur | Joelle Jobin | French Class | Maribeth Tabanera
Graphic Design: Faith Robert
Telephone Game D
Video Editor: Rowan Gray
Contributing Artists (in game order):
Kristy Janvier | Andrea Oliver Roberts | Maritel Centurion | Kevin
Waters | Carol-Ann Borhn | Rayannah | Emma Beech
Graphic Design: Faith Robert
Telephone Game C
Video Editor: Rowan Gray
Contributing Artists (in game order):
Christina Hajjar | Marisolle Negash | Ella Steele | Joel Klaverkamp
| Jaime Black | Davis Plett | Mark Dela Cruz
Graphic Design: Christopher Samms
Telephone Game B
Video Editor: Rowan Gray
Contributing Artists (in game order):
Christine Fellows | D-Anne Kuby | Marijana Mandusic | Natalie Sluis
| Jesse Hamel | Camila Schujman | Ali Wan Kenobi
Graphic Design: Talia Steele
Telephone Game A
Video Editor: Rowan Gray
Contributing Artists (in order of appearance):
Naomi Woo | Kristin Haight | Sarah Jo Kirsch | Jennifer Otisi |
Mutable Body | Neilla Hawley | Jason Tait
Graphic Designer: Alexia Ruiz
Co-Presented by Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival and
Young Lungs Dance Exchange
Generously supported by Safe at Home MB and the Government of
Manitoba
Manitoba Yellow Pages: A Scorebook for Movement and Sound takes
its inspiration from the childhood game Telephone: as a whispered
phrase moves from one ear to the next, sounds and meaning change
with each transfer. The game brings focus to both the scrambling
of communications, as well as those elements that persist through
numerous transformations.
In the Manitoba Yellow Pages (MBYP), our Telephone games
explore how an idea moves through a series of differing creative
practices.
Curators Ashley Au, Jillian Groening, and Sam Penner invited 35 Manitoba-based artists to participate in 5 game circles. Due to the realities of COVID-19 and the conceptual framework of the Safe at Home MB initiative, each game began with an artist crafting a creative prompt and a one-minute video work inspired by their home space. The one-minute videos were sent down the telephone line, with each following artist responding with their own one-minute video and a short prompt. Artists had approximately 24-hours to respond to the video they received, encouraging responsivity and playful exploration.
In only sharing the video works with the next artist in line, a heightened sense of affective transmission is sought, allowing the prompts to occupy a creative textual realm unique to each artist.
From March 6th to March 31st, 2021, the prompts will be shared with the public, to invite folks to respond to these prompts in their own creative ways: be it through movement, sound, painting, snow sculpture, photography, assemblage of objects, collage, drawing, makeup tutorial, video, poetry, embroidery, a small act, a walk, the making or consumption of food, music, dance, a phone call, wood carving, an outfit, a word, etc.
Using the hashtag #MBYP and the prompt’s number (published alongside the prompt), we invite people to share their responses and continue the games. The MBYP hashtag will be a site for inspiration and play, as well as holding a digital community archive.