Moe Clark

Métis sound artist Moe Clark fuses her unique understanding of performance narrative with traditions of circle singing and spoken word. With a background in voice, spoken word, and visual arts, she employs a looping pedal to add multi-layered vocal structures to her performance. Her poetic songs resonate with the power to heal, to celebrate spirit and to connect with authentic purpose. After her debut album release Circle of She: Story & Song (April ’08) Moe toured extensively across Canada and recently made her debut performances in Europe and South America. Her work will be published in a bilingual poetry book in Spring 2010 through Maëlstrom publications. Feature highlights include performances for the 2009 Maelström ReEvolution Poétique FiEstival in Brussels, Belgium, ’07-’08 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, the 2008-2009 Diverse as This Land Performances at the Banff Centre, and the 2007 CBC Calgary Poetry Face-Off. Moe has performed with artists such as Ian Ferrier and Pharmakon MTL, Kathy Kennedy (Montreal), Sheri-D Wilson (Calgary), and Tanya Tagaq (Nunavut), among others. Aside from her performance work, she facilitates voice and looping pedal workshops and works in areas of artistic production, composition and festival creation. She co-directed Tusarniq, the second annual Indigenous Words, Music & Images festival in Montreal, Circle Haiku, a poetry-music video with Emmanuel Hessler and the NFB, and most recently she premiered her video poem Intersecting Circles, an award-winning poem from the 2007 CBC Calgary Poetry Face-Off.