PAST PERFORMANCES

Our mission is to present innovative performances and foster collaboration among artists from diverse disciplines. Inner Fish is committed to providing professional opportunities for emerging interdisciplinary artists and engaging with minority communities.

THE COLLECTIVE BODY

The Collective Body (TCB) began as a response to the pandemic. The Living Things Festival as planned couldn't happen as we usually present touring artists. We decided to create an outdoor installation employing as many artists as possible. This generative process involved 48 musicians and dancers from across North America.

Using current communications technologies as a central metaphor, the artists record themselves separately: dancers make videos of specific body parts, then musicians respond with recordings, which are sent to other dancers who then respond with videos, which are sent to musicians….and the rhizome-like pattern of simultaneous emergence expands. The material is gathered and shaped into haunting, shimmering collages of diverse bodies projected onto the exterior of a public buildings, with outdoor speakers providing sonic sensuality. The TCB project explores the constraints and unique possibilities of digital connection, while serving as a reminder of the deep importance and irreplaceability of shared physical space.

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LOOKS LIKE SOUNDS

Looks Like Sounds is an experimental performance event that combines music, dance, and visual projection to explore live improvisation between multiple artistic forms. Classical and avant-garde musicians and dancers will observe and respond to each other amid an ever-changing visual backdrop, connecting and communicating through the languages of movement, sound, and light. An instantiation of interdependence and flux, this performance will bring artists together in a collaborative spirit of artistic innovation, audacious imagination, and trust.

Photos by Jackson Parker

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PLAYBOOK

Playbook is an interactive, immersive experiment with improvised sound and text.

PLAYBOOK was created by a group of local musicians and artists: Eliseo Santillan (keyboards and soundscape), Jessie Rivest (voice) and Andrew Stauffer (percussion), and premiered with Neil Cadger (text) at the Kelowna downtown library during Nuit Blanche 2023. The Playbook performers' lineup also included renowned experimental saxophone player Darren Williams, along with experimental sound artists Miles Thorogood and Chris Anderson.

Photos by Eliseo Santillan

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THE NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA

World renowned avant-garde percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and his Nakatani Gong Orchestra performed in Kelowna on October 21st, 2023 at the Centre culturel francophone de l’Okanagan. This concert was the thirty-ninth installment of the Skin and Bones Experimental Music Series - an Okanagan Arts Award nominated concert series dedicated to the presentation of experimental music in the Okanagan.

Photos by Saturday Sazaran

TRAILART

TrailArt is an experimental performance designed specifically for the Okanagan Rail Trail. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before!