Thursday, July 15 | 11—11:15 AM EST
Online via Instagram Live
FREE (no registration required) 

Kim Ninkuru inaugurates Vector Festival 2021 with hello, a soft movement performance on Instagram Live. hello is a slow contemporary dance routine informed by yoga and martial arts practices. The peformance will unfold as a movement-based exercise and guided meditation session. The artist invites you to take part in this experimental exercise at home or outdoors by following along with the artist's gestures.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kim Ninkuru is a multimedia artist born in Bujumbura, Burundi. In Canada since 2009, she has been living and working in Montreal and Toronto. Using video and sound performance, story-telling and installation work, she creates pieces that give her the chance to explore and express rage, love, desire, beauty, or pain in relation to her own body, mind and soul. Although her art is very personal, she is committed to speaking out about the liberation of black women and femmes everywhere. Her work heavily questions our preconceived notions of gender, race, sexuality and class. It is grounded in the firm belief that blackness is past, present and future at any given moment.

ABOUT VECTOR FESTIVAL

Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and workshops, Vector acts as a critical bridge between emergent digital platforms and new media art practice. The festival was founded in 2013 as the “Vector Game Art & New Media Festival” by an independent group of artists and curators: Skot Deeming, Clint Enns, kris kim, and Katie Micak, who were later joined by Diana Poulsen and Martin Zeilinger.