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DEVON BATE

Installation

Inquiry Into Time and Perception, Study #2

2021. Three channel audiovisual installation directed by Philip Szporer, with dancer/choreographer Aurélie Brunelle, singer Alvaro Echanove, and guitarist Dominique Soulard, and their reworking of Brunelle’s flamenco choreography, Transiciones.
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1001 Lights

Video installation with Mouvement Perpétuel. Past screenings:

LIGHT MOVES SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL, Limerick City Gallery of Art – November 2016  
ON-SITE IMPROMPTUS, MING CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM, Shanghai – June-July 2017  
MUSEUM OF JEWISH MONTREAL, Montreal, Quebec – January-April 2018  
JEWS AND JEWISHNESS IN DANCE: SCREENDANCE, Phoenix – October 2018  
LUMINOCITY FESTIVAL, KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY, Kamloops, British Columbia – October 2018  
​VIDEOSKIN, EDGE GALLERY, Whitehouse, Yukon – November 2018  
JEWISH MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, Australia – March 2019  
​GEORGE SNELGROVE GALLERY, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – May 2019

Harvest // THe Flood

2015. Performance Installation (under pseudonym Bufflo) - composition, projection, painting, performance, disco balls.
40 minutes. Premiered at the Magito Studio (Helsinki, Finland) at Sound Art Day. Outcome of residency with MUU Artists' Association.
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2015-2017. Public performances include with the Obra Anaïs performance ensemble in Salle le Tremplin (Sherbrooke), Le Tatou (Montreal), Casa del Popolo (Montreal), and the Vernon Street Studios (Nelson, BC).

Now available in a take-home format through www.bufflo.ca

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(Un)graving sound

2014. Interactive installation by Marlon Schumacher and Karine Bouchard, with composition by Devon Bate. Presented at the Biennale Trois-Rivières at l'Atelier Silex. Four record players, live projection on panes of glass with transducers.
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BUFFLO PLAYS LIVE WITH THE AUTOSAMPLER

2013-14. Interactive performance using synthesizers and original Pure Data patch, with which the audience can contribute their own sounds which are analyzed and integrated into the music being performed live. First performed in full with the Art Matters Festival at Sala Rossa, March 2014.