* Audience advisory: this performance uses strobe lights and water-based haze.

Artist Talks: 7:15 PM

Vancouver New Music’s annual festival returns this year with PROPULSION, October 17-19, 2024, at VIVO Media Arts Centre. We have invited three local guest curators to each program a night of the festival that centers emerging artists with visionary sonic and musical expressions. Curators are artist, writer and curator, Kendra Place; composer, multi instrumentalist, sound and media artist, Anju Singh; and audio-visual artist, DJ and radio host, Reylinn. The festival will feature a mix of local and visiting artists doing a wide range of exciting work. 

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Day 3: Curated by Reylinn

DJ Zygote (Vancouver) 

a DJ performance of Southeast Asian electronic music incorporated with dancers

DJ Zygote aka Simon Grefiel is an artist whose work engages with ancient and pre-colonial histories and practices from Southeast Asia and around the Pacific. Working with sculpture, found objects, drawings, and plant life, his explorations of language, dreams, spirits, familial stories, and speculative narratives proposes new ways of experiencing the supernatural realm, and the material universe.

‍GOGO Dancers (Vancouver)

Josh

Josh is a Dubai born, Queer, Filipinx artist that is currently a settler on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Josh emerged in dance through the streetdance community when he battled in the first Vancouver street dance festival 2011. From there he steeped himself in street dance culture as a means for empowerment and self realization. These styles included Locking, Popping, House, Hip hop, Krump, Vogue, and Whacking from local and international teachers: Jerry Chien, Koffi Noumedor, Nubian NeNe, Leah McFly, Natasha Gorie, Rina Palerina, Anna Martynova, and Sekou Heru, Raoul Wilke, Kozi Eze, Latasha Barnes, and Ejoe Wilson. While he was involved in the streetdance community he continued to explore contemporary dance from Tiffany Tegarthen, David Raymond, 605 collective, Su-Feh Lee, Kevin Fraser, Peter Bingham, Justine Chambers, Delia Brett and Deanna Peters through the pre-professional dance training program Modus Operandi and informal ways of exchanging in the local and international dance community.‍

Rae

Rae is a “Vancouver” based DJ and performer. Working against what society expects of her as a queer Asian woman, she represents the guilt free pursuit of self acceptance and pleasure. Rae’s goal when on stage is to fully release herself to the music and leave feeling lighter, in hopes that those around her feel inclined to do the same.‍

ADAM

FITNESSS (US)

FITNESSS emerges as a composite of wires and veins

coursing with the distilled rage and sorrow of a decimated Los Angeles

prosthetic electronics trigger angelic pulsations

flowing through nervous pathways to communicate

the primordial choreography of our Holy Ancestors

About the Curator: Reylinn

Reylinn is a Vancouver based audio/visual artist, DJ, and radio host. They’re a founding member of Acceleration Radio, an open format FM radio, live stream and events collective with a focus on audio/visual experimentation. Attracted to the contrasting aesthetics of the natural and synthetic, their live performances recontextualize audio and video recordings captured in daily life for spaces of catharsis.

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Banner Credits: Photo of FITNESSS in performance