PuSh Performing Arts Festival / February 2005 / grunt gallery & The Roundhouse, Vancouver

The work begins with finding actors. Each of the eight members of Norma will choose possible actors to play their 'character' from headshots and cvs (from the collections of the UBC Theatre Department, Studio 58/ Langara College, SFU, and others). As a group, Norma will conduct interviews and will make eight final choices from this pool. Selection will not be made by acting style (ie: there's no audition necessary) but according to the actors' willingness to collaborate and experiment with their craft. The final actors will be given a copy of Roselee Goldberg's text, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, and will be introduced to Norma's past works through a short, informal artist's talk. Their instructions for this work will be simple: they are to read as much as they like of Goldberg's text, take as much as they like out of the artist talk, and create amongst themselves a collaborative performance work. This work will be kept secret from all Norma members until it is performed for the public at the Grunt Gallery/ Roundhouse Centre in February 2005. The actors will be paid with Norma's artist fee.