A Choir of Demands and Desires On Repeat >
2020 > Durham Art Gallery > Artist collaborators: Faith Arkorful, Hanan Hazime, Fiona Raye Clarke, Angela Sun, and Rebecca Zala
2019 > Khyber Centre for the Arts > NAT chantel, Stacey Gomez, Lux Habrich, Suman Jha, Mariah Pelley Smith, and ML Wei
2019 > Studio XX > Artist collaborators: Suzanne Fernando, Rebeca Zala, Ahreum Lee, Feliz Tupe, Laëtitia Techer, Nadia Hammouda and Soukayna
2018 > Sheridan Galleries > Artist collaborators: Faith Arkorful, Angela Sun, and Rebecca Zala
2018 > Sound Streams > Artist collaborators: Faith Arkorful, Fiona Raye Clarke, and Rebecca Zala
2018 > Gardiner Museum > Artist collaborators: Faith Arkorful, Hanan Hazime, Fiona Raye Clarke, Angela Sun, and Rebecca Zala
2017 > East End Arts > Festival of Words : Artistic collaborators: Suzanne Fernando and Rebecca Zala
A Choir of Demands and Desires on Repeat is choral performance of feminist speech acts. Performed by an ad hoc choir of local women and nonbinary BIPOC, the score recalls, reminds, and reinstates demands made by women and feminist movements across geography and history. Lending from sound poetry and endurance performance, nuanced political desires within the intersectional matrix of oppressions overflow in an orchestrated cacophony of sounds. Resounding in echoes is the exhaustive labour of repeating a history of feminists demanding social justice.
We’re Winning So No Comment >
2018 > Gardner Museum > Artistic collaborators: Faith Arkorful, Fiona Raye Clarke, Hanan Hazime, Angela Sun, and Rebecca Zala
2018 > Younger than Beyonce > Artistic collaborators: Fiona Raye Clarke, Hanan Hazime, and Lasasha Nesbeth
We’re Winning So No Comment is a choral performance of a reading of misogynist comments on popular social media and news websites interrupted by award speeches made by Dionne Brand, Lido Pimienta, and Beyonce. Each members of the choir also gives an acceptance speech for the prize of ‘Being a Women Every Day. As is my practice, most of the hired performers were not professionals, but "everyday" women who over a course of rehearsals collaborated with me to present the work based on the energies of their lived experiences.
Panic in the Labyrinth > 2018 > Gardner Museum
Panic in the Labyrinth was a series of performances including "A Choir of Demands and Desires On Repeat", “We’re Winning So No Comment” and "Ritual Readings", a reading series curated by Whitney French and Amy Wong. Whitney invited Britta B and the Story Reno Collective; Amy Wong invited Rain Chan and Elisha Lim.
Recordings are available upon requests.
Essay Nadia Hammouda > Rendre l’invisible visible : Les désirs laborieux dans Choir of Demands and Desires on Repeat d’Annie Wong
Essay > Letticia Cosbert > if i speak to you in anger
Images of A Choir in Demands and Desires of Repeat (Toronto) by Yuula Benivolski © Gardiner Museum 2018
Images of A Choir in Demands and Desires of Repeat (Montreal) © Studio XX
Images of A Choir in Demands and Desires of Repeat (Halifax) © Khyber Centre for the Arts