Intimacy with a Thousand Things
Nadia Ross, Sarah Conn and Michael Schiesser
Developed in collaboration with the STO Union team and members of the Wakefield Art CollectiveProduced by STO UNION IN ASSOCIATION WITH WAC and BRUT Koproduktionhaus
Our new work, Intimacy with a Thousand Things, is an account of events that occurred during one week in June, 2010. It touches on the current state of world affairs, as well as an intimate, almost innocent telling of what three friends personally went through in this week filled with extremes:
The death of a friend, the transformation of downtown Toronto during the G20 summit, an earthquake, the return of an old partner, the disappearance of a friend in Bangkok during the red shirt riots, and the cancellation of a play that they were supposed to perform all occurred during this short period of time.
In a world of extremes, where joy and love mix with natural disasters and human suffering, do we isolate or engage? It can be empowering to retreat and create our own little sanctuary, but is that what we really want?
Intimacy with a Thousand Things is about the human condition at its most vulnerable and the reconciliation of this state with reality as it presents itself.
STO Union gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts on Intimacy with a Thousand Things.
