https://sistership.tv Sistership TV Mon, 09 Oct 2023 18:00:08 +0000 https://sistership.tv en https://sistership.tv/Rotating-Logo Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:10:46 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/Rotating-Logo <img width="497" height="453" width_o="497" height_o="453" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab23e9198a26ffb9bf076be7f9ee34f6fb886bfbabfe1757255b0e0108cb001f/ROTATINGLOGO.png" data-mid="59312977" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/497/i/ab23e9198a26ffb9bf076be7f9ee34f6fb886bfbabfe1757255b0e0108cb001f/ROTATINGLOGO.png" /> https://sistership.tv/What-is-Sistership-TV Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:59:50 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/What-is-Sistership-TV Sistership TV is an episodic, internet-based variety show directed by The Powers (Emily Pelstring, Katherine Kline, and Jessica Mensch). Each episode includes a livestream musical performance and curated video and sound by numerous international guests, collaborators and contributors. Past episode themes have included human-animal communication; the cyborg; telepresence; hysteria; witchcraft; hybrid beings; and panpsychism.Sistership TV is one outcome of a collective research project that draws on ecology, media studies, materialist theory, and feminist theory to engage with practices of reclaimative myth-making and speculative futurisms. A constellation of related projects includes performative lectures, live multimedia performances, reflective texts and audio works. This project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The project is distributed by VTape in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. <img width="1262" height="498" width_o="1262" height_o="498" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b4c151e821623886729db7f9fe3a678488b12cc11a8963a662f05e135d75291/vtape_logo02.png" data-mid="118209369" border="0" data-scale="20" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b4c151e821623886729db7f9fe3a678488b12cc11a8963a662f05e135d75291/vtape_logo02.png" /> https://sistership.tv/EPISODE-1-GOTTA-CRACK-A-FEW-EGGS Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:33:19 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/EPISODE-1-GOTTA-CRACK-A-FEW-EGGS Episode 1 - "Gotta Crack a Few Eggs"Streamed live on January 13, 2019, 5PM EST The Powers beckon you into their wilderness, the Sistership, where they commune with animals, spirits and machines. Bunny finds an enchanted Egg in the forest and transforms into Shitty Wizard. A crack in the Egg unleashes an alternate universe, in which Crones fly through space on the backs of birds. Featuring Special Guests, Blevin Blectum and FASTWURMS. <img width="1280" height="721" width_o="1280" height_o="721" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b680a6535134ef6c7ea8c062b8c618385433ff1cbbb214c7048b7861bd01f20d/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.30.23-PM.png" data-mid="59138731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b680a6535134ef6c7ea8c062b8c618385433ff1cbbb214c7048b7861bd01f20d/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.30.23-PM.png" /><img width="1275" height="791" width_o="1275" height_o="791" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2d40d3c32a2d4c5e86fb69c92d54127e1e780d7a860fff7ab8541b3b488259e/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.31.58-PM.png" data-mid="59138743" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2d40d3c32a2d4c5e86fb69c92d54127e1e780d7a860fff7ab8541b3b488259e/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.31.58-PM.png" /><img width="1274" height="720" width_o="1274" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a72aeacdfac9cb656187e42d433958bf1afa2a672d3c4e37ce6ef8170a5a4ef8/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.31.38-PM.png" data-mid="59138744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a72aeacdfac9cb656187e42d433958bf1afa2a672d3c4e37ce6ef8170a5a4ef8/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.31.38-PM.png" /> https://sistership.tv/EPISODE-2-MEDUSA-LOLS Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:33:57 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/EPISODE-2-MEDUSA-LOLS Episode 2: "Medusa lols" Streamed live from Bump Television in Toronto on June 7, 2019, 7PM EST The Sisters embark on a quest in search of an externalized brain--the missing mind of one who has lost her shit. In the effort to heal her and return her to her body, the Sisters begin to channel a pantheon of supernatural entities, drawing energy from beloved ghosts. Medusa appears with some important information. With Special Guests Be Heintzman Hope (Wxmb Core), Violet Cutler, and Hiba Ali (H1BA). <img width="985" height="692" width_o="985" height_o="692" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ae97ef34c1139d4987708600d365a457084298890d14a70928c0fa533e43ef2/Screen-Shot-2019-07-22-at-11.50.51-AM.png" data-mid="59139059" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/985/i/9ae97ef34c1139d4987708600d365a457084298890d14a70928c0fa533e43ef2/Screen-Shot-2019-07-22-at-11.50.51-AM.png" /> Video still: Segment entitled “Medusa’s Body”, in which dancer/choreographer Be Heintzman Hope performs as a headless Medusa, reclaiming their body in a series of caves illustrated and animated by Emily Pelstring, wearing a costume made by Jessica Mensch, set to music by Sasha J. Langford. Collaboratively-developed, 4 minute short included in the program for&nbsp;Sistership TV, EP 3 “Medusa lols”. <img width="1249" height="697" width_o="1249" height_o="697" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc159876a19e7234ba957fa510cb45a62e7fbb4c68e28964c405e99bbea9aa37/Screen-Shot-2019-07-22-at-11.51.46-AM.png" data-mid="59139056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc159876a19e7234ba957fa510cb45a62e7fbb4c68e28964c405e99bbea9aa37/Screen-Shot-2019-07-22-at-11.51.46-AM.png" /> Video Still: Music video for “Curses” by H1BA, the solo music project of Hiba Ali. In the video, the singer curses the military, partriarchy, and colonialism. Included in the program for Sistership TV, EP 3 “Medusa lols”. <img width="1246" height="697" width_o="1246" height_o="697" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/188b87aa9e33446b535028f7911da6ab61900f5c5809359dfaebcb3d7765d959/Screen-Shot-2019-07-22-at-11.49.09-AM.png" data-mid="59139062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/188b87aa9e33446b535028f7911da6ab61900f5c5809359dfaebcb3d7765d959/Screen-Shot-2019-07-22-at-11.49.09-AM.png" /> Video still: Segment entitled “The Quest”, in which two of the Sisters are in search of their third. The third has misplaced her physical brain, which she finds nestled in some rocks, and tucks into her robe for later. The musical soundtrack for this segment was performed live by The Powers during the stream. https://sistership.tv/EPISODE-3-BLOB-DESCENDING-A-STAIRCASE Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:34:43 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/EPISODE-3-BLOB-DESCENDING-A-STAIRCASE Episode 3: "Blob Descending a Staircase" Streamed live from the Dirt Palace in Providence on August 18, 2019 5pm EST Welcome to the Sistership's multidimensional landscape, where everyone morphs into unimaginable shapes and sizes, reassembling time and space, and generally refusing to stay put. In this gelatinous location, we encounter a "mermaid" and a dog-jellyfish hybrid. Featuring special guests: Ultra Violet, Jenn E. Norton, Kathy Rose, Bianca S. Arroyo-Kreimes, and the artwork of Greta Scheing, Xander Marro and Meg Powers. <img width="1264" height="755" width_o="1264" height_o="755" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d4cf9837e149ff7374fe8d5f043559476d70d39da004848155463642414aa26/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.43.03-PM.png" data-mid="59139406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d4cf9837e149ff7374fe8d5f043559476d70d39da004848155463642414aa26/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.43.03-PM.png" />Video Still: “Blob Descending a Staircase” <img width="1277" height="714" width_o="1277" height_o="714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8867183d688ba70d6dcce09f2544eece0e02b7d18cd36aed8f891dbec5bb06d2/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.42.44-PM.png" data-mid="59139407" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8867183d688ba70d6dcce09f2544eece0e02b7d18cd36aed8f891dbec5bb06d2/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.42.44-PM.png" />Video Still: “Blob Descending a Staircase” <img width="1266" height="720" width_o="1266" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7aaaefafad52d2a82a3cd945869435decb921ffc5b2f0990b22e8f25bf86b387/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.41.35-PM.png" data-mid="59139409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7aaaefafad52d2a82a3cd945869435decb921ffc5b2f0990b22e8f25bf86b387/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.41.35-PM.png" />Video Still: “Blob Descending a Staircase” <img width="1280" height="756" width_o="1280" height_o="756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4a11044b7e2f8a8b2da77399a58229bd9b67add0a2918e0642f3c2b43698bb3/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.40.07-PM.png" data-mid="59139410" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4a11044b7e2f8a8b2da77399a58229bd9b67add0a2918e0642f3c2b43698bb3/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.40.07-PM.png" />Video still: Transitional segment in which the mermaid, now submerged in the sea, watches as slippery, hybrid creatures float by. <img width="1280" height="732" width_o="1280" height_o="732" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/717c6d1ddb4ff7b22a051f7a3c621d784d16c3fa35936bd7ec844b1e5d3213bb/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.39.50-PM.png" data-mid="59139411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/717c6d1ddb4ff7b22a051f7a3c621d784d16c3fa35936bd7ec844b1e5d3213bb/Screen-Shot-2020-01-21-at-6.39.50-PM.png" /> Video still: Segment entitled “Island Vibes” in which a mermaid lures the camera into the sea. <img width="974" height="502" width_o="974" height_o="502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89e8f044d3d448d78518bbe354822a6b8361f8b1736e98de03cdfdf81fba3b9a/bianca.png" data-mid="59139569" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/974/i/89e8f044d3d448d78518bbe354822a6b8361f8b1736e98de03cdfdf81fba3b9a/bianca.png" /> Video still: Ballad of the Spirits by Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes (2018). Short animated loops made using recycled materials fuse with human bodies. Included in STV EP 3: “Blob Descending a Staircase”. <img width="974" height="516" width_o="974" height_o="516" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc3d544d5b48b4b0b54d9374ed506904b666187582ae2330f5778eaa5ff17da9/kathyrose.png" data-mid="59139570" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/974/i/bc3d544d5b48b4b0b54d9374ed506904b666187582ae2330f5778eaa5ff17da9/kathyrose.png" /> Video still: Architecture of the Breath by Kathy Rose (2019). A series of hybrid spider-people spin webs. Included in STV EP 3: “Blob Descending a Staircase”. https://sistership.tv/EPISODE-4-THE-SISTERSHIP-ARRIVES Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:35:22 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/EPISODE-4-THE-SISTERSHIP-ARRIVES The Sistership&nbsp;Arrives (Friday, September 18th)In this season finale, a wicker ball rolls onto the scene and sets into motion a series of fun surprises. The crones are beamed into an extraordinary feminist psycho-bio-sphere, where matter and energy are intricately woven together. Once there, they encounter a number of entities: Black Quantum Futurism; Ashley Bo­­wa and Lesley Marshall; Ricky Rainbow Beard; FASTWURMS; Annapurna Kumar; Natasha Pickowicz; and Jaimie Warren. Together in our wicker playpen, we reflect on mental, natural, energetic, economic, and material entanglements, and make experimental messes of the kind that might lead to different forms of relationship. Wanna make the cake featured in the episode? Here’s the recipe! Read our Thoughts on Wicker below or download a VERY FANCY pdf. Some Thoughts on Wicker and the playpen in the shitstorm Pascal Auclair, Buddhist teacher in Montreal, tells a story about quinoa and avocados in one of his retreat talks.&nbsp; The story is meant to illustrate a point about interconnection.&nbsp; The story he tells is a story that weaves capitalism with indigenous plants, with desire, with food supply chains, with cultural histories and lost connections. The story is simply this: Some years ago ‘the people of the North’ started to want quinoa.&nbsp; Why quinoa became a ‘thing’ is a mystery, but suddenly, it was a desire, a demand. ‘The people of the South’ who had been eating quinoa for eons, suddenly found this staple, which they had grown and distributed and eaten amongst themselves, to be driven up in price, due to high demand in the North.&nbsp; The end of the story is that they could no longer afford to eat their traditional seed. The story about avocados is a similar story. Due to a variety of conditions, the people of the North wanted avocadoes at some point, and a lot of them, very badly. The desire was strong. Avocados require a great deal of water in order to grow. The people of the South soon found themselves and their communities without water as water sources were being redirected to grow the avocados that the people of the North required to satiate their avocado desires (these desires which are never, in fact, satiated), while the growers could turn a huge profit. This story could be told a million times with different peoples, different plants, rocks, minerals, animals, and so on and so forth. This is just one string connecting our feelings to our bodies to our actions to all sorts of others, all sorts of impacts. We are completely entangled. Pascal described this as poignant. Old French, means ‘pricking’. Latin: To prick. Painful to physical or mental feeling. Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.&nbsp; During this global pandemic, our awareness of the complex interweave of invisibles and materials are coming into a greater clarity.&nbsp; Shit, piss, fear, greed, toilet paper, contagious affect, in addition to the contagious virus, plus the supply chains, grocery stores and human labourers helping scared hoarders wipe their asses are but one small corner of this entanglement to consider.&nbsp; Mask supplies: a pulp mill in Nanaimo grinds cedar trees into pulp for surgical masks. A factory elsewhere turns that material into something else. Ships it elsewhere.&nbsp; A border between countries, what and who may pass, lorded over by dangerous delusions of separation and exceptionalism. Who is allowed protection. Who gets the quinoa.&nbsp; Who gets the clean water.&nbsp; The gender of labourers: nurses, nursing home staff, grocery store clerks are overwhelmingly female identified. Essential, underpaid, at risk. Can you follow the thread linking the invisible manic-depressive dynamics of the stock market, the plastic islands in the ocean? Can you trace the link between your zoom meetings, your income, the minerals in your phone, the deforestation of mountains and dispossession of humans from land and the annihilation of ways of knowing the earth? The story of the pangolin, or the bat, or the pig or the cow—each of them creatures who, we are told, carry viruses. Entities that might shut down the world’s economy, or wreak havoc on a body. From the human perspective, these beings are caught in so many webs of meaning and relationship: objectified as product and consumed, revered as holy and venerated. Moreover, this entanglement does not uphold borders between species: There is no ground claim to human separation. A virus is a boundary trickster, weaving us all together and rearranging the coordinates. When you start to pull at one thread, you discover and create a bigger knot.&nbsp; It pulls you in. A deep web where you can’t move, think, feel or breathe without impact. This is entanglement: quantum, physical, material, immaterial. We are having our heart pierced, by the poignancy of interconnection.&nbsp; Interconnected communicating systems that forests and oceans have always known, with their giant slime mold tentacle entities and mycelium networks and so on. A state of affairs that we seem to disavow. Which brings us to wicker. Wicker is a weaving process. Plant materials such as rattan, bamboo, cane, which have certain characteristics (flexibility and strength) are transformed into human shelters, containers, and support. Homes, clothing, furniture, baskets. Structures that hold. The story of wicker technology is a long one--ancient Egypt, Rome, Southeast Asia, 1950’s Rococo Revival décor. Evoking a breezy, exoticized vacation destination in North American upper-class homes. Due to its popularity, synthetic materials came to be produced for the making of these objects.&nbsp; Pulling at one meaning-thread of wicker leads us to the feminization and devaluation of ‘craft’ in art discourses, not to mention its utter irrelevancy in so many technological imaginations. As a ‘low’ art, craft has come to be associated with domesticity, women and the lifestyles of ‘primitive peoples’. The labour process involved in weaving, and in material craft in general, is gendered, racialized, and trivialized. The ideological devaluation of this labour allows for the exploitation of skill: Textile industries are but one example of where craft is undervalued and underpaid, where work is carried out in unsafe conditions. Those lucky enough to afford the fruits of this labour are decidedly stylish, at least for a few months. Wicker is a tool for thinking through these vast and dizzying connections that embrace us all.&nbsp; By crafting a wicker space-craft, we crones are raising a serious eyebrow at the science fiction narratives that fantasize about getting as far away from Earth as humanly possible, having destroyed what it had to offer. Such a fantasy of disentanglement is a dangerous one. Instead, we envision the work and play of weaving as a necessity to living on this planet, as well as a vehicle to envision new dimensions of being-with, and being-here. Wicker here is refigured and reclaimed as a structure and a shelter, a vehicle and a play-thing, and a technological-aesthetic object in its own right. Another thread pulled from the wicker ball leads us to think about the support structures needed to navigate the inhospitable regions of space. Some kind of collaborative structure-making is indispensable for living a viable life in the toxic atmosphere of white-supremecist capitalist heteropatriarchy: For some this is a matter of life and death.&nbsp; This thread leads us to the metaphor of the enclave. This craft/shelter/structure is an alternative to utopia and its speculations of escape. In our journey, the hero does not control, conquer and then run away from the consequences. The arc of our myth is about getting ever closer to the conditions of connection, and playing there.&nbsp; Haraway tells us to stay with the trouble. Not to transcend the intricacies of our conditions. Not to fantasize about getting the fuck out of here and colonizing another planet instead. To work with our inescapability. Our response to the poignancy of the wicker ball of reality is to attempt to co-create safer shelters— enclaves— for playful messes. &nbsp;Indeed, it is to multiply our notion of realities, and what other lived stories we might be able to weave. We journey to other playpens (the Dirt Palace and the Wedding Cake House, the Fastwurms compound), as three ambassador crones, discovering how others invent their enclaves for living-together and making. We are learning about structures that allow for different forms of connection, interconnection, weaving together. &nbsp;Different processes and kinds of relationship. Different friends to relate to and include in our world: ghosts, squids, witches, trees, slime molds, cysts, orbs, cats. This wicker ball is a hot mess of entanglement, one that we are committed to dealing with, playfully, experimentally, with care and curiosity. Finally, there is a thread that has woven us together from the beginning: The fates. Also known as the Morai. This is an old story about three weaving goddesses named Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. These three sisters had the power to assign destinies to the mortals.&nbsp; Our wicker ball, our space craft, our sistership, our enclave, our cosmology, our collaboration is but one provisional proposal for other ways to weave together and imagine reality. One way to contribute to mortal destinies.&nbsp; https://sistership.tv/FORTUNA-PERPLEXUS Mon, 09 Oct 2023 18:00:08 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/FORTUNA-PERPLEXUS A collaborative installation by The Powers&nbsp; Featuring excerpts from Sistership TV In The Powers’ live streamed web series, Sistership TV (2018-2020), we sailed upon a metaphorical vessel to diverse environments, shape-shifting and moving between dimensions, exploring various topics: human-animal communication; the cyborg; telepresence; hysteria; witchcraft; hybrid beings; and panpsychism. For this installation, we translate the archived world of Sistership TV to the setting of a large, soft vessel, the Fortuna Perplexus, which is afloat in a sea of ephemera from the web series. Fortuna is the Greek goddess of luck and fortune. Perplexus is Latin for entangled, ambiguous, and inscrutable. With this work, we reflect on energetic, economic, and material entanglements, making an experimental mess that we hope can lead to different forms of relation and help us imagine better worlds. Performers in the included excerpts of Sistership TV are Violet Cutler, Joshua Mensch, Bevin Kelley, Josie Eccleston, Jillian Wakarchuk, Kyah Lloyd, James Irwin, Rue Sakayama, Greta Scheing, and Annelli S. Henriksson. Technical assistance by Hiba Ali, Blank Xu, Neil Cloaca Young, and Erin Corbett. Special thanks to Xander Morro and Pippi Zornoza at the Dirt Palace, Tom Hobson at Bump TV, Rob Houllahan, and Cam Miller at Queen’s University. The full version of Sistership TV includes many other collaborators and guests not included here.&nbsp; https://sistership.tv/THE-POWERS-ORACLE-CONSULT-THE-FATES Mon, 06 Sep 2021 16:55:55 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/THE-POWERS-ORACLE-CONSULT-THE-FATES In this performance, three Crones offer readings of oracle cards based on entities that have haunted their performance and video rituals over the past decade. In this new symbolic order, born of The Powers/Inflatable Deities artistic multiverse, the Squid, Blob, Cake, Brain, Merwitch, and even the Cyst have roles to play in dismantling hierarchical regimes of power. Let The Powers Oracle help us weave new stories, and guide us toward more nurturing structures. This performance is designed to be delivered via Zoom with live volunteer participants from the audience.&nbsp; <img width="2868" height="1458" width_o="2868" height_o="1458" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/624bf80bc478ea56e0053d988f7597d1f61ba986a0a2953f78a3de3bed2b99f4/oracle.png" data-mid="120122375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/624bf80bc478ea56e0053d988f7597d1f61ba986a0a2953f78a3de3bed2b99f4/oracle.png" /> <img width="720" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/409c7126e728df4d1277e9e7a5f518c8d4ed7cb3f586a31b4e05214909a76704/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-12.20.10-PM.png" data-mid="120122408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/409c7126e728df4d1277e9e7a5f518c8d4ed7cb3f586a31b4e05214909a76704/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-12.20.10-PM.png" /> Samples of oracle cards: <img width="825" height="1425" width_o="825" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47b1d4f2058f32b4872fecfecb67202cd78d6d5f6ffc2a4b33d1bc53a121943b/1Egg.jpg" data-mid="118203161" border="0" data-scale="26" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/825/i/47b1d4f2058f32b4872fecfecb67202cd78d6d5f6ffc2a4b33d1bc53a121943b/1Egg.jpg" /> <img width="825" height="1425" width_o="825" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4a9929ea310359da62b3c1a520caa83e8bd2ef05f28e32bb54ecd51f1ea53f9/1Hairball.jpg" data-mid="118203167" border="0" data-scale="26" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/825/i/a4a9929ea310359da62b3c1a520caa83e8bd2ef05f28e32bb54ecd51f1ea53f9/1Hairball.jpg" /> <img width="825" height="1425" width_o="825" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5421ed79fcca4d69b1f4e8d3a4b5ba55ab518430c93ef84ee245fb2edbd56cd/1Blob.jpg" data-mid="118203179" border="0" data-scale="26" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/825/i/c5421ed79fcca4d69b1f4e8d3a4b5ba55ab518430c93ef84ee245fb2edbd56cd/1Blob.jpg" /> <img width="825" height="1425" width_o="825" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84f5538b7768669633941927fcc6182a36a643cdcb7d928761fb8a7252b971a1/1Cake1.jpg" data-mid="118203182" border="0" data-scale="26" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/825/i/84f5538b7768669633941927fcc6182a36a643cdcb7d928761fb8a7252b971a1/1Cake1.jpg" /> <img width="825" height="1425" width_o="825" height_o="1425" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fa2262e40bd730c64dd9f06d9e6c00c179306084dd65f3699897873b02f002f/1Squid.jpg" data-mid="118203181" border="0" data-scale="26" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/825/i/5fa2262e40bd730c64dd9f06d9e6c00c179306084dd65f3699897873b02f002f/1Squid.jpg" /> https://sistership.tv/LIVE-SETS Mon, 06 Sep 2021 17:37:50 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/LIVE-SETS "...a trippy Gesamtkunstwerk production incorporating everything from life-sized puppetry, film, and performance art to blacklight theatre, electronic music, dance, and lowkey pyrotechnics. Seriously: the scene’s fit for a bath salts hallucination as Katherine Kline, Jessica Mensch, and Emily Pelstring do their thing. The trio enters the performance space one big amorphous alien, only to shed their skin and reveal themselves wearing upside down masks." --Tom Beedham, Ontheaside.comThe Powers 25-minute multimedia set is highly adaptable and has been performed in various spaces ranging from living rooms to galleries to bars to concert venues. PAST PERFORMANCES 2023 Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC The Tranzac, Toronto, ON Trinospheres, Detroit, MI Meteor, Windsor, ON 2019Indexical Festival, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA The Dirt Palace, Providence, RIHart Bar, Brooklyn, NYVox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC2018 VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BCUpside Studios, Victoria, BCTurnturnturn, Portland, ORTeatro de la Psychomachia, Seattle, WA Kazoo! Festival, Guelph, ONDouble Double Land, Toronto, ON2017Masterpeace Theatre (livestream), Pender Island, BC Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, BC2016 The Garnet, Peterborough, ONGallery 8-11 w/ Man Made Hill, Bile Sister, Wolf Cow, Toronto, ON The Dirt Palace, Providence, RINo Exist No Fest, Montreal, QCDoomis, Burlington, VT Tone Deaf Festival w/ Blevin Blechdom, Kingston, ON2015Obey Convention, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, NS Aurora, w/ Domestique, Blevin Blechdom, Providence, RIa tattoo shop in Brooklyn, NYa record store, w/ Bromp Treb, in Greenfield, MA La Plante w/ Blevin Blechdom, Montreal, QCPoisson Noir w/ Pelada and Bernardino Feminielli, Montreal, QC PDA Projects, Ottawa, ONSonorium series, Gallows Hill Theatre, Salem, MA Pushing a Brain Uphill, Burlington City Arts Centre, Burlington, VTCoolfest, La Plante, Montreal, QCLa Passe w/ Bill Nace and Jake Meginsky, Montreal, QC 2014 The Zone, Montreal, QC House show, Northampton, MA Community Centre, Ithaca, NY The Tate II, w/ Blevin Blechdom, Providence RI Palisades, NYC https://sistership.tv/CRONE-ISLAND Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:27:59 +0000 Sistership TV https://sistership.tv/CRONE-ISLAND This livestreamed gig was broadcast from Pender Island, BC in June 2017. Shot, edited, and rehearsed on the island entirely within one week of immersive “band camp”, this was The Powers first foray into livestreamed performance and was an inspiration for&nbsp;Sistership TV.