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This is an archived event from Culture Days 2024.

glamTURE [Installation]

In-person

Sculpture & installation Music
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Location

Théâtre Cercle Molière

340 Provencher Blvd

Winnipeg, MB

Access

Free.

Offered in English and French.

Wheelchair accessible, has gender-neutral washrooms, and is a relaxed performance.

About

A boisterous sound installation by Emma Hendrix and Julie Gendron of Manufacturing Entertainment:

"glamTURE", a portmanteau created by combining glam metal and torture, is an installation that perpetually auto-reverses guitar solo sections from 80s glam rock records on multiple modified turntables, concurrently.

Glam metal started its meteoric rise in the early ’80’s and by the early ’90’s, it had largely disappeared, along with its mix of hyper-masculinity, heavy makeup, flamboyant clothing, and endless finger-shredding guitar solos.

The repetition of the solos simultaneously amplifies and dilutes the guitar-hero passages while, throughout the night, each record and stylus slowly deteriorates, representing the values and styles of a genre built on juxtapositions. glamTURE multiplies the pinnacle moments that these bands and their fans anticipated: the guitar solo as the musical and performative climax of each song, the over-indulgent competitive edge that each band claimed as their own unique “genius”.

About Manufacturing Entertainment:

Manufacturing Entertainment is the artist, curatorial and art production duo, Julie Gendron and Emma Hendrix. Focusing on art-making technologies, digital art communities, and working across genres and disciplines, they strive for meaningful collaborations and community building. Autonomous and forward-thinking, Manufacturing Entertainment thrives on new ways of operating, recombining art methodology and transforming status quo thinking.

Presented by Cluster Festival and HYPERART.

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HYPERART

HYPERART is the flagship event of Nuit Blanche in Saint-Boniface where music, visual art, digital art, drag, and movement meet in the heart of the neighbourhood. The multidisciplinary micro-festival is presented in collaboration with the Centre culturel franco-manitobain (CCFM) and Théâtre Cercle Molière (TCM) under the artistic and executive direction of Franco-Manitoban artist Rayannah.

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