April 5 & 6: Vernissage + Performance/Lecture by Annie Rollins as part of “Immaterial Remains”

April 5, 5:00 – 7:00pm: Vernissage + Performance/Lecture

April 6, 6:00 – 7:30: Performance + Lecture

In this performance/lecture, Rollins presents her most pressing conundrum: how do you preserve a shadow? With a short survey of her apprenticeship and fieldwork, a trajectory of the failures that brought her to her thesis question and a musing of shadows, ritual, and the power of folk art, are all told through the medium of shadow itself. Mixing projection, traditional puppetry, and autobiography, Rollins poses her questions back to the audience, still searching for answers she hasn’t found yet.

Learn more about the exhibition, “Immaterial Remains”

 

Annie Rollins is a researcher, theatre artist, and practitioner of Chinese shadow puppetry, studying as a traditional apprentice since 2008. Rollins has received a Fulbright Fellowship, the  Confucius Institute Joint PhD Research Fellowship and a Canadian SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her research. She is currently writing her dissertation in Concordia University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program on the transmission of traditional Chinese shadow puppet making methods. Recent venues for exhibitions, lectures and performances include The Art Institute of Chicago, The Montreal Botanical Gardens, The Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, the Virginia Fine Arts Museum, the Linden Center in Yunnan China, and the Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands. Annie has published articles in Puppetry International, Asian Theatre Journal and Anthropology Now. Rollins recently launched the first English language comprehensive Chinese shadow puppetry site at www.chineseshadowpuppetry.com.