photo credit (all): Yuula Benivolsk
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How does climate change, a vastly distributed emergency, become personal? What is it about the slow-motion accident that escapes our defense responses?
In This ritual is not an accident, time and scale are recalibrated as personal histories are shredded, recomposed, and the slow-motion accident of climate change becomes intimate. Women undergo surgery, first passive, then actively involved in their own operations.
Created for small audiences, this performance becomes an emergent text, windstorm, and choir; a contemporary ritual to reset nervous systems collectively.
Photography by Yuula Benivolski
Outside eyes Yves Sheriff & Hanna Sybille Müller
With the support of
Canada Council for the Arts
In collaboration withStudio 303
ELAN (English Language Arts Network)
Creation residency
Artscape Youngplace
Dana Gingras/The Stable