Performance Creation Work
Another Word for Care weaves digital art, dance and poetry together in a performance work exploring the impact of an AI companion bot on a patient with dementia in a work exploring capitalism and care. The piece was in Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal’s 23/24 development season.
Liz is a poetry and operatic performance score that explores the impact of the housing crisis on the mental health of an isolated woman living in low-income housing. The work was workshopped in the Banff 2024 Playwrights’ Lab.
Hysteria Triptych is a three-part poetic lament exploring the possibility of bodily and spiritual freedom for three women trapped in narrow and oppressive archetypes. The piece premiered at The Rialto Theatre and was co-produced by Odd Stumble and crowlake. The work was also selected for the Revolution They Wrote festival.
6.58 Manifesto is a dance work by Andrea Peña & Artists that explores the possibility of community and collectivity amidst industrialization. Erin was a vocalist and creator in the work which was presented at the NAC, Agora Danse, Wilder Space, CINARS and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
How We Lost Control Of Our Faces is an interdisciplinary dance/theatre work by The Other Theatre that explores the fate of 7 women lost to a complex regime being carried out in outerspace. Erin was a writer and performer in the work which was presented at La Conservatoire d’Art et de Musique.
All Flesh Redux was a dance/theatre and voice work exploring time and history through the lens of generations of musical composers. The piece was presented at La Conservatoire d’Art et de Musique.
Mother and Blue are two libretto commissions with music and interdisciplinary company New Art/New Media that explore themes of motherhood and post-humanism through contemporary composition and poetry. Mother, was presented at Saw Gallery in Ottawa.
To The Ottawa River uses sound, poetry, dance and projections to explore the impact of flooding on the Ottawa region. The work was presented at Makerspace North, Ottawa.
Archipelago, presented by Odd Stumble at the Rialto Theatre, that explored interdisciplinary and immersive performance art.
Literary Works and Collaborations
Another Word for Care is currently being developed as a hybrid forms novel exploring the ethics of AI automation in long-term care homes. The print and new media work involves QR code accessible AR and video digital and sonic poems from a robot’s perspective. This work has been supported by an SSHRC and CCA grant.
How Does This Work? is a digital zine incorporating a dialogue between Quebec and New Brunswick-based artists and 2 poets (Erin Lindsay and Katie Gorrie) as they navigate the complexities of communication amidst the pandemic. The work was supported by a CCA grant.
Rue Généreux is a digital and analog poetry project for community healing that involves a Tarot card spread of poems that have been
wheat-pasted in a Montreal alley and that call for reflection and solidarity through the Montreal lockdowns during the pandemic.
The Alchemists was a blog curated by Erin while working at carte blanche literary magazine that involved interviews with artists exploring interdisciplinary and hybrid approaches to writing and creation.
@crowlake is an Instagram account where Erin regularly shares poetry and writing sketches, process and (at times) short poetic responses to art and live performance in Montreal.
Erin was the recipient of the CAM//QWF One Planet Countless Worlds grant where she will be embarking on a community and digital art based project by the name of Constellations which tracks the connections between Place and Memory.
The Provocation Collection is a series of interdisciplinary prompts developed by poet/educator Sheryda Warrener that are designed to inspire visual poetic pedagogy and writing. Erin was a research assistant on the project through UBC.
Vocal Sketches
“Bad Horse” original song. Lyrics and melody by
Erin Lindsay and composition, arrangement, production by Zachari Smith.