re:Create
re:Create is a performance art production company situated in amiskwaciwâskahikan, Treaty 6. Previously focused on the Clown and Mask process, the company has shifted interest to poetry, storytelling, and devised theatre.
re:Create comes first from a place of play, exploration, and process oriented work. Making, then re-making, then responding to what has been made- all with a sense of joyous curiousity.
Creation, recreation, re:Creation. Revealing + revelling. Processes in which the asking of questions and exploring of multiple possible answers is more important than discovering something “definitive.”
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With a drive for unrelenting exploration, an understanding that learning/ unlearning often feels like remembering something from a past life, and proclivity towards play, remixing, and mythology, re:Create strives to explore the spaces between artists and tell stories about those spaces.
Then…
by sharing those stories with an audience, the spaces between the artists and members of the audience can likewise be explored. If culture is a conversation we have with one another, art is the language with which that conversation is carried.
– pH
Another core tenet of the company is to prioritize care and community in equal measure with creativity. This comes especially into process with the pursuit and interest in mad-art creation; making art with and about madness in new ways to be more responsible, liberatory, and generative. Making mad-art will look as different from artist to artist as the myriad ways that people experience madness, but with care comes vulnerability, and from there comes exploration and connections more deeply satisfying to audience and artist alike.
For now the core pillars of this work that we follow are:
Exploring what is considered by society as “limitations” and using them as the font of creative generation itself, rather than making art by finding “solutions” to said “limitations.”
Avoiding the use of diagnostic language when writing about madness, where best practice suits. This is done for several reasons, all tied into caring for both artist and audience, and breaking stigma by creating more ways of talking with each other about these experiences.