undo is a duo which, since its inception in 1997, explores the barely perceptible, the unacceptable, the forgettable. in 2022, for its final act of deception, undo decided to undo itself.
undo. delete. efface. do not.
undo est un duo qui, depuis sa création en 1997, explore l’imperceptible, l’inacceptable, l’oubliable. en 2022, pour son dernier actede déception, undo a décidé de se défaire. ne faire. supprimer. effacer. ne pas.
2023
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Publication, CD+booklet, With You Out Me, squint press, (more details soon).
2021
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Presentation as part of the online 12-hour -And- event on December 12 of four never before seen video documents of performative gestures by undo centered on orality in its blunt physiology, contingent spatiality, tense viscosity, and emergent animality. Performed twenty years ago, digitized and edited in the summer of 2021: seize me by the horns (2000) 10:57, Disclosure (2001) 14:04, Vito Acconci’s undoing (2001) 11:00, l’étranglement (2000) 23:57. Disclosure with Alexandre St-Onge as undo, 2001-2021.
l’étranglement with Alexandre St-Onge as undo (plus guest André Éric Létourneau), 2000-2021
Alexandre St-Onge, writing and quoting a writer’s paper about another writer in a book he bought during the festival: Two mouths open toward the wide-open nothing were saying “no” in its affirmative movement of excess. Stuffed by dead snails, these two mouths were not even able to speak, saying “no” by being unable to say a word—a silent speech present through its absence. Through the week, different extreme gestures were implicitly saying destroy –softly, tenderly, absolutely. A word— an infinitive marked by the infinite—without a subject; a work – destruction – which is accomplished by the work itself.
1999
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Performance, untitled, with Sam Shalabi, at a room under the stairs, Montréal.
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Performance, untitled, with Michel F. Côté, at the Salle Multi, Méduse, Québec.
1998
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Performance, untitled, at Musiques Fragiles, Constellation Room, Montréal.
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Performance, untitled, at Le Navire Night, Radio Canada, Montréal.
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Performance, untitled, at Théâtre La Chapelle, Montréal.
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Performance, untitled, at Hotel2Tango, Montréal.