This Workshop Will Self-Destruct: Louie Lang Norman

Join Louie Lang Norman for a workshop on formal experimentation in performance art. Starting with a relaxed seminar on avant-garde performance practices of the 20th Century, we will then create our own reperformances of classic performance art scores, before exploring how we can apply these methodologies to make space for experimentation within our own art practices. This workshop is aimed towards performers, artists and performance writers working in live media from across disciplines – from cabaret artists, to poets, to visual artists, to composers – who desire to be formally innovative, disruptive or just plain silly in their practice. Keywords: Dadaism, Fluxus Movement, Performance Art, Live Art, Avant-Garde, Conceptual Art, Performance Scores, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Marina Ibramovic, Cassils This workshop is suitable for queer, practicing artists aged 18+ Louie Lang Norman is a performance and drag artist based in ‘Victoria’ BC and is Intrepid Theatre’s 2024 Artist-in-Residence. Originally from the UK, Louie has presented solo shows and performance installations at international performance festivals in Europe (DISKURS, Germany 2018, SPILL Festival of Performance, UK 2018; INKONST, Sweden 2019), and was a finalist for Unlimited’s Main Commission Award in 2020. Louie’s forthcoming scholarly chapter on fan performances is anthologised in Theatre Fandom, University of Iowa Press (2025), and he is the equally proud and ashamed human behind the locally tolerated drag queen Ket Bush.