Experiment Group #6
Team Members
Tyson Houseman
Tyson (b. 1990) is a nehiyaw interdisciplinary video artist, performer, puppeteer, and music video director. Along with producing his own time based media works, Tyson is a touring performer and puppeteer on various multimedia theatre/live video productions created by Canadian scratch DJ Kid Koala, and spends his summers working as a company member with the Bread & Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont. Tyson’s practice focuses on aspects of contemporary Indigeneity, human/object performativity, and the interstices between live and captured performance. Tyson has a BFA in Theatre Performance from Concordia University in Montreal QC.
Instagram: @tysonhouseman
Joliz Dela Peña
Joliz, also known as JDP 2009, is an interdisciplinary artist from the Philippines, currently based in Tiohtià: ke/Montreal. Dela Peña is a self-taught artist whose mediums include painting, performance art and alternative photography. Although her mediums of practice constantly vary, the focus of her work predominantly explores the discomfort of social constructs among people of color. She is currently exploring the art of alternative photography with cyanotype and has an ongoing series drawing from images from her childhood entitled "Dito sa San Jacinto, Doon sa Santo Tomas".
From time to time, Dela Pena performs live conceptual art pieces that confront subjects such as diaspora and immigration, sexuality/eroticism, and the celebration of her cultural roots. In recent works, she attempts to translate fragmented memories from her personal life as first-generation immigrant, as well as borrowed from others, to create a larger and more universal perspective for the audience to relate or connect to.
Dela Peña’s work has been exhibited at WIP gallery (The ‘i’ Word, 2020), Somewhere Gallery (Mementos of Self, 2020), Rad Hourani Foundation (Je suis d’ici/I am from here, 2021) and in the recent the 4th edition of Artch (2021).
Artist Statement
The connections between memory and self , diaspora, migration, and celebration of cultural heritage are recurring themes in my work. Through performance, photography and installation, my goal is to relive realities, explore its complexities, and translate invisible tension and uncomfortable elements into universal visuals. Acting mainly as a vessel of expression and resistance, I use ancestral archives in addition to my body as central figures to share experiences, history, trauma, and all the beauty and the ugliness that co-exists within marginalized societies.
Lebogang Disele
Lebo is a theatre-maker with a focus in movement, acting, directing, and dramaturgy. She is currently an Artistic Associate at Mile Zero Dance and is a mentee in the Citadel Theatre’s RBC Horizon Emerging Artist Mentorship Program. She recently curated Site/Sight/Place for the Mile Zero Dance Winter Salon. Other performance credits include The Space Between for NextFest Digital (2021), Brandon Wint’s The Antidote to Violence as Care (forthcoming); Baki and Mands in Azimuth Theatre’s workshopped production, All That Binds Us (2020); Amina in Belleville (2020), directed by Amanda Goldberg at the Bleviss Laboratory Theatre; Words Unzipped at the 2019 SkirtsAfire Festival curated by Karimah Marshall; What (Black) Life Requires at the 2018 Expanse Festival and Unwoven at the 2018 SkirtsAfire Festival, curated by Nasra Adem. Lebo locates her work within the genre of physical theatre, focusing on interdisciplinary collective creation.
Twitter: @lebodisele
Facebook: Lebogang Disele
YouTube: Lebogang Disele
Instagram: @lebodisele
Joshua Lucas
Joshua (He/Him) is a digital creative and multi-instrumental electronic looping artist. After graduating from the University of Guelph for classical music and vocal performance, Joshua’s had a distinguished career as a music producer, sound designer, composer and visual artist. Over the past decade he’s been awarded for his work and has collaborated with prestigious organizations such as The National Arts Centre, The National Ballet School, Canadian Stage and more. During his residency “Convergence” at the Banff Centre of the Arts, Joshua began experimenting with AR, VR and projection mapping as his main artistic focus. Recently, he scored an AR theatre piece titled "Ghostwatchers”, collaborated on an immersive VR theatre production called "Collider" and was asked to perform at “Virtual Burning Man” 2021 for BRCvr. Joshua is currently integrating 3D virtual painting into his exhibitions, and has been performing and hosting live stream music concerts in AltspaceVR and Spatial.