Gratitude Gratitude Gratitude // Exhibition by LES666 @ Open Space Gallery

Gratitude Gratitude Gratitude: The Generative Self as Illusion Toward Desire // LES666

JUL 2 - AUG 1

Wednesday to Saturdays 12PM - 5PM

Open Space Gallery: 510 Fort St., Victoria BC

https://openspace.ca/arts/all-programs/gratitude-gratitude-gratitude

~Interactive Generative Multi-Media Sound + Light Installation~

Opening Reception: SAT JUL 4 // 3-5pm

Workshop: SAT JUL 11 // 1-2pm (Registration link: https://forms.gle/W3jbHsQ9Nntzxz9u8 )

Dance Event: Friday, July 17 // 7-11pm

Performances each Saturday at 3pm

> All events free, all ages, open to the public, wheelchair accessible, hearing protection provided, warning: some flashing lights and theatre grade glycerine smoke

About:

The constant process of creating, uncreating, and recreating the self is a beautiful illusion. Caught in the transmitter, receiver, and perceiver cycle; how we are refracted, mirrored and layered through our dance with digital and analogue versionings of our self, our own image as we see ourself through how others see us, our online identities, our stories that shape us, our shadows, and the impossible light that always shines through. GGG invites you to play with yourself and see what temporary and ephemeral selves you can make. It is a love story told through an immersive, interactive media art installation and performance art experience. What is the self? It is an illusion. Using the analytic media art theories of Laura Mark’s Unfolding / enfolding the cosmos and incorporating the psychological audio ghosts documented by Diana Deutsch, you are invited to a 360 degree digital and analogue audio+projection+performance space. Find yourself in a neurodivergent, queer cinematic psychedelic techno-femme nostalgia where technology is no longer the tool but also the language.

LES666 - Artist Bio

Lesley Marshall is an award-winning filmmaker, intermedia artist, and MFA candidate / sessional teacher at the University of Victoria, Faculty of Fine Arts. Projection art, films and music by Lesley have toured and screened nationally and internationally appearing in over 150 festivals including at the National Arts Centre, Centre PHI, and Montréal Festival du Jazz. They are the 2023 CMPA Diversity Mentorship Recipient for the CBC/PBS feature Animal Pride and a commissioned animator for CBC’s The Nature of Things. With work engaging with queer politics and crip theory, Lesley investigates interactive design through a responsive practice using performance art, projection and sound. 2021-2024, with collaborator Ashley Bowa, Lesley presented the award-winning Green Gazing, a projection immersion installation of plants and experimental movement at Ada X, Montréal, Workman Arts, Toronto, Vancouver Mural Festival, and at DARC, Ottawa. Lesley has presented on filmmaking technical ethics at the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival and Conference London UK 2023, University of Ottawa, Visual Impetus Forum at the University of Victoria, CineVic, Carleton University and Surveillance and Society Conference in the Netherlands. Lesley is featured on Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Vice, Exclaim!, Brooklyn Vegan, Aux, Rookie Mag, & Stereogum. Lesley also makes weird music performing under LES666 and is in a synth duo called DIELECTRIC.