Croquis by Fakeknot

Please join us on the September edition of Free First Friday Nights for a participatory performance that spans dance, movement, fashion, space and architecture. Croquis invites the audience to partake in its improvisatory style and encourages participation and moments of reflection. Croquis will feature special musical guest, Benny Bastillo a.k.a BOYFRIENDYVR.

Croquis is an interdisciplinary performance by FakeKnot that was inspired by and riffs off of the exhibition Fashion Fictions. The artist produced the works used in the performance within Lab Here//Too//For—a satellite lab initiated by Material Matters from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Croquis is a durational performance, staged and costume designed by Ralph Escamillan. The solo explores the idea of a “croquis”—a quick, expressive sketch of a garment or ensemble that brings an artist’s design to life. Here the pencil becomes the body and the paper becomes a modular canvas., The solo tussles with one’s desire to imprint and archive themself into space.

The performance will take place throughout the evening between 4–8 PM, with moments outside of the building and indoors.

Key times of the performance are from 5:45–6:15 PM and 6:45–7:15 PM.

 

ARTIST BIOS

FakeKnot is the umbrella entity for collaborative performance works that play with the complexities of identity and culture through costume, sound, technology and movement. FakeKnot is grounded in street, commercial and contemporary dance techniques that honour the queer, POC identity of Artistic Director, Ralph Escamillan. Collaboration as a practice of knowledge co-creation is essential for FakeKnot in the ways it can generate activities that bring differences together. 

 

Benny Bastillo aka BOYFRIENDYVR is a Filipinx Trans DJ and event organizer, often frequenting in the local queer nightlife scene. From smooth moody r&b to high octane EDM, he is a community made DJ – Founder of Benny’s B2B Lab which promotes local QTBIPOC DJs.