In Them Voices, past and future generations gather and manifest themselves in Lara Kramer’s body, mind and dreams. In Windigo, Phantom Stills & Vibrations (FTA, 2018) and in This Time Will Be Different (FTA, 2019), the choreographer of mixed Oji-Cree and settler heritage confronted an incessant and eternal present. In keeping with her journey to the heart of her lineage, Kramer anchors herself and becomes an open conduit through time and space; her multidisciplinary practice embodies primordial voices of past and future.

Based on last year’s show in the garden of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the new indoor version of this solo performance explores the relationship between the artist’s body and her memory, calling upon notions of performance, social critique and cultural resistance. With Them Voices, Lara Kramer excavates a world where stories come together to assess the consequences of our actions on future generations.

The artist Lara Kramer positions herself inside shared experiences with her mother and explores hopes, dreams, and future thriving. The title Them Voice is interpreted as multiple voices, stories, and imagery embedded in the artist’s body and anchored with her mother and family relations. With the multigenerational experiences that come before and proceed the artists, future dreaming becomes the crafting of fuel towards new rhythms, and new modes of mobility.

Interview 

In Search of the “Coming Community”: A Conversation Between Curators Ivanie Aubin-Malo and James Oscar

Them Voices

Them Voices searches to be inside the place that carries memory and future imagination. Laying out in all possible directions. What has been exerted, what is failed. What is not yet seen or dreamt of. All is together, intersecting in Them Voice. Strives to re-imagine new pathways connected to future ancestors in their flight and journey.