David McIntosh

In residence: 2017

David came to Tuwanek to present an aspect of his current project: "Terroir: pouring, speaking, drinking – geographically specific servings of stories and booze." Through a writing residency and culminating community meal, David shared his project's interest in addressing settler relationships to indigenous territory through the prism of agriculture, resource extraction and alcohol. A small dinner gathering was the culminating gift after David's week long retreat at Coppermoss. Dinner guests were served specific of stories place paired with wine and locally sourced food from the Inlet.

About Terroir: "Based on the beautiful lie of "terroir" - the concept that time, place and human endeavor can be expressed in a vintage bottle of wine - this project examines how the relatively shallow history of colonial agricultural settlement in this province might be encapsulated in its people. Taking advantage of  David’s training as a sommelier and the ergonomics of serving wine, the work allows for the consideration of our bodies as vessels of myth, history, lies, desire and geography.

Some of the research is documented on this blog, Enoteca McIntosh.

David McIntosh is a choreographer, writer, singer, sommelier, and the artistic producer of battery opera. In 1995 he co-founded battery opera with Lee Su-Feh, whom he began collaborating with shortly after he was run over while on his bicycle somewhere between Kuantan and Kota Baru. Over the last five years BOP’s David McIntosh has been creating site-specific works that explore the traces of lives lived amongst the structures and histories that surround us. Sometimes these have taken the form of live performances, lounge acts, guided tours, books, or downloadable audio files for specifically prescribe walking routes. Over the last two years, Terroir has been a research project he has undertaken to extend these concerns to a larger context.

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