MANUAL at the Halifax Central Library

Name: MANUAL at the Halifax Central Library
Start: 2024-11-29T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-29T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Halifax Central Library

Schedule

Fri Nov 29 2024 at 12:30 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Halifax Central Library | Halifax, NS

Innovative and intimate, MANUAL is an acclaimed performance work by Montreal-based artists Christopher Willes and Adam Kinner. This one-on-one performance experience lasts 40 minutes. Admission is free, pre-booking is required.
Creator/performers: Christopher Willes, Adam Kinner, and Hanna Sybille Müller of Montreal/Tiohtià:ke
Joined by local artists: Jacinte Armstrong, Meghan Gilhespy, and Lauren Runions
MANUAL takes place in the public library and is experienced by one person at a time. Staged covertly during public hours, viewers arrive on site with instructions to meet a performer at a particular time and location. From there they are led silently through a series of tiny actions together, following written notes and immersive audio in headphones. They walk through the space and listen together. They look at books and read to each other. Using found materials in the library, the performer stages a surprisingly immersive and intimate sensory experience. And as the piece progresses the materials they encounter come to form a manual for slowing down.
Intermingling with the daily life of the library, MANUAL proposes a performance that develops through the act of listening and reading with another person. Through a slow and careful process, this piece stages a quiet meditation on the library as a space of shared attention.
Presented in coordination with the Open Studio Series by our friends at KINETIC.
Photo: David Wong