Cur
renT:
How Does
this Work?
How Does This Work? is an interdisciplinary digital art and poetry project featuring work by 9 Canadian artists (4 from QC and 5 from NB) and a poetry collection by Erin Lindsay and Katie Gorrie. The project tracks the dark rushing waters of surviving life from 2020-2022 through artistic acts of correspondence. This project was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant.
Rue Généreux
Rue Généreux is a series of 8 Tarot card poems for healing that exists digitally and in the real world to process the aftermath of the pandemic on the city of Montreal. The poems are based off observations in the alley, iPhone notes throughout the year, a collection of street art and graffiti and Tarot card visuals and descriptions. The real-life poems are posted in the ruelle of rue Généreux in the Plateau, Montreal. Rue Généreux will be making its way to future Montreal alleys in the Fall/Winter of 2022/2023.
STARVED
Starved is an experimental interdisciplinary play set in a fictional Canada overcome by a food crisis following a global war. The story follows Lys, an aging revolutionary imprisoned for the illegal possession of a seed library, and her connection to Sophia, a young pregnant prison guard, as both of them navigate Lys’ hunger strike and her attempts to escape the prison cell. The piece will feature a classical singer as the embodied voice of Hunger and a live soundscape, asking the question: How can freedom for women be possible in systems that starve them? The work explores the relationship between gender, power, control, sex and food, agism, feminism and leadership, and genuine authentic connection and solidarity as a site of revolution and healing in the world.
ANOTHER
WORD FOR CARE
Another Word for Care is a multi-disciplinary project involving an experimental print book encouraging an analog/digital reading experience, a series of VR short films, and a multi-media play following the story of a computer programmer and her invention of an AI bot designed to offer 24/7 companionship to patients in long-term care homes. The piece asks the question: How are our system of care impacted by the bug of our (in)humanity? and explores the ethics of automation in health care contexts, and politics around capitalism, care, productivity and disposability. The project also invites a reflection on the gendered nature of emotional labour and the ways digital communication impacts our lives, work, and thinking.
Another Word For Care is my thesis project through the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing MFA and was supported by SSHRC and will be in development with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal in the Fall of 2022.
(UN)SAFE
(Un)Safe is a project in collaboration with Sin Palabras and designer Lorena Trigos in partnership with social workers at HLM Bienville in Longeuil, QC that explores marginalized women’s safety in public spaces across Montreal. The piece, an immersive experimental performance experience, will be based off of a series of workshops with women at HLM Bienville around safety and public space in Montreal, and will involve design, dance, sound and multi-media. This project is supported by CALQ.
NEW ART/
NEW MEDIA
In collaboration with interdisciplinary arts and classical music collective New Art/New Media on poetry/libretto work for the creation of two new works, a song cycle (Frau) around caretaking, grief, birth and connection, and a new composition (Blue) around themes of post-humanism and the possibility of liberation. Both projects are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and will be released in the Spring/Summer of 2023.
the alchemists
As the Blog Editor for The Quebec Writers’ Federation’s magazine, carte blanche, I have had a series of conversations with 7 artists whose writing work focuses on collaboration, hybridity, interdisciplinarity, and transformation.
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PA
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Performed as a vocalist in a contemporary dance show about humans surviving in systems for Andrea Peña and Artists (Banff Centre, Wilder Space, Agora Danse, Arsenal Gallery, National Arts Centre).
The Hysteria Tryptich is a non-linear piece exploring the possibility of transformation for women outside the rigid gender norms. It involved an original score and was produced by Odd Stumble at The Rialto Theatre and through Brave New Play Rites (Vancouver).
Archipelago was a live interdisciplinary museum and immersive event at The Rialto Theatre where I performed as a vocalist and with a performance piece excerpt from The Hysteria Triptych.
A sound, poetry and performance art piece connected to climate change and the damage caused by flooding from the Ottawa River. Performed at Makerspace North, Ottawa.
Bad Horse
A fun pop tune I wrote the lyrics and composed the melody for.
Composition and Musical Arrangement by Zachari Smith of Acre Alley Studios.