Experiment Group #5
Team Members
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Brian Postalian
Brian (Բրայն Փոսթալյան) is an arts administrator, educator, and creator born and raised in Toronto/Tkaronto by way of Armenia, Ireland, Wales, and the Czech Republic. Brian is the founding Artistic Director of Re:Current Theatre, which is dedicated to creating work that reimagines gathering. Together with his company, he produced the sold-out SummerWorks hit The Smile Off Your Face and most recently the digital tour of New Societies from Upintheair Theatre's eVolver Festival to Kingston's Kick & Push Festival and into Crow's Theatre's main season programming. His work co-creating Access Me with the Boys in Chairs collective will be published by Playwrights Canada Press as part of Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada in Spring 2022. Brian is a sessional instructor within the School of Performance at X University and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto and Simon Fraser University. He completed a Master of Fine Arts at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts in Theatre Game Design and Interdisciplinary Performance Studies. In his spare time, he likes to visit used book stores, revisit childhood video games, ride his bicycle, play with his dog Amie, and is learning how to draw and play the Armenian duduk. Brian currently lives on the unceded Coast Salish territory of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations.
Instagram: @broonpos
Dayna McLeod
Dayna is a queer video and performance artist. Her work has been presented at the Impakt Festival in Utrecht Netherlands, the Mardi Gras Festival in Darlinghurst Australia, MIX Brasil Festival Of Sexual Diversity in São Paulo Brazil, the Modern Art Museum in Warsaw Poland, Le Centre d’art contemporain in Paris, the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, Centaur Theatre, the PHI Centre, OFFTA, and Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in Montreal, Summerworks Theatre Festival in Toronto, and Performatorium, Queer City Cinema’s performance festival in Regina. Dayna is currently working on a project about sleep and is collecting your dreams.
Shawn Tse
Shawn 謝兆龍 (he/him) is a father, filmmaker and community organizer living in ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton)
Instagram: @tdotshawn
Adrienne Gantenberg
Adrienne is a costume designer and visual artist who is passionate about creative reuse and recycled art. She studied Fashion Design in her hometown of Chicago before moving to Brussels where she worked for fashion label, Haus Coudeyre, and made costumes for student films at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-La-Neuve. In 2017 she came to Montreal, where she now lives and works, receiving her BFA in 2020 in Design for the Theatre at Concordia University.
As an extension of the body, costumes play a vital role in the art of story telling. My work is an exploration of the tension between inheritance and impermanence, focusing on how humans perceive, relate to, and understand their own bodies and experiences.
An irresistible urge to experiment and create poetic absurdity drives my art making process which is often fueled by improvisation and serendipitous chaos similar to the method of automatism employed by Dadaists. To me, everything is a collage, and in a world of endless possibilities and free association I am drawn towards a haphazard aesthetic conjured into existence by stream of consciousness alteration and assemblage of reappropriated items, images, and cultural references.
Instagram: @adrienne.gantenberg