Reunión
Dani Zelko
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Daniels Spectrum
120 minutes
Canadian premiere
Presented in spanish and english
Reunión is composed of various acts that involve conversation, reading and writing: daily actions –though at the same time out of the ordinary – that always involve being face to face. Zelko writes down poems that community members dictate to him. After fulfilling his task as a listener and copyist, he edits and prints the books the following day. The books are presented to neighbours, family and friends of the writer in a circle of nine people. The second part of the project consists of writers’ poems being read out loud by ‘spokespersons’ who lend their body, eyes and voice to read in a round of nine chairs the poems of people who are absent.
Zelko has produced three ‘seasons’ of Reunión while traveling through South and Central America, Mexico and the United States. As RUTAS’ festival artist in residence, he visits Canada for the first time to record stories of our local communities and add them to the project. A retrospective of the past three seasons of work will be exhibited in the Daniels Spectrum lobby throughout RUTAS, and Zelko will join several of our conversatorio events.
FINAL READING WITH NINE CHAIRS:
October 13, 2018 at 12:00 PM
Creator
Dani Zelko
About the artist
Dani Zelko is an award-winning artist who works at the intersection of poetry and contemporary art. He has been recognized by the Visible Awards (EEUU), the Argentinian Ministry of Culture and the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (Argentina). Zelko’s presentations are made up of words and people, that are put together through various procedures to generate actions and events. Read more about Reunión.
