A plastic orchid factory platform for experiments-in-process showings during the PuSh Festival. Now in its 3rd incarnation, Left of PuSh #3 offers 3 mixed bills by local and visiting artists working across disciplines:

1. Experiment #4 featuring works by James Gnam/plastic orchid factory, Thea Patterson, Marie France Forcier, Melanie Kloetzel/ReLoCate and Nikki Carter. This BC-Alberta migration project, initiatied by ReLoCate, makes space for experimental works that chart new pathways through questions of resilience, delineating how the body and its radical performances can illustrate empowered – and potentially surprising – prospects for individuals, species and communities.
2. DOUBLE BILL: New research by olive theory (interdisciplinary duo Shion Skye Carter and Stefan Nazarevich) examines the relationship between nature and artificiality, contrasting the embodied and the semi-organic with the synthesized and purely electrical. Francophone theatre artist Gilles Poulin-Denis/productions 2par4 confronts the end of his life by attempting to make his last-ever piece, right now. The Swan Song. The Farewell Tour.
3. DOUBLE BILL: A new work in progress by Bo Dyp centred around the thunderbird. Kwanxwalaogwa, one who possesses thunder is rooted in Bo’s ancestral name, Kwanxwalaogwa and the spirit in Kwakwaka’wakw culture known to connect the spiritual world with the physical. Bo works from their developed practice as a non-binary drag artist from the Dzawada’enuxw nation, to explore their culture and their intersectional position in body politics. Erika Mitsuhashi and Francesca Frewer examine the precarious space between otherness and togetherness. When we find ourselves faced with fundamental uncertainty, how do we make sense of ourselves, our perceptions, and one another? With movement, text, and theatrical artifice, they use these questions to explore ideas surrounding agency and subjectivity.