Weather Pattern #6: The Funeral Pageant

https://weatherpatternspageant.wordpress.com/ September 8th, 2018 Graduating Project, MFA in Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University Collaborators: Annie Therrien Boulos, Evan Medd, Randi Edmundson, Megan Stewart, Howard Dai, Jordan Zanni Weather Pattern #6: The Funeral Pageant was an outdoor, public procession that considered community and ecology as collaborators while contemplating themes of mortality and transformation. Taking place over a distance of 10.5 kilometres across Vancouver and Burnaby, the project was a carnivalesque procession that included large-scale puppets, kites, aeolian harps, and lanterns. Travelling through residential, industrial and forested areas, the procession involved a series of participatory events, all based around the journey of a ten foot tall puppet of a human figure as it walked into night. The procession ended in the dark of night with the puppet, whose body was disintegrating from the rain, being destroyed in a feast of noise, red wine and revelry.