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Intimacy with a Thousand Things
Nadia Ross, Michelle April and George Acheson
STO UNION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
WAC (Wakefield Art Collective)
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 our current production, we take a walk through life in the modern era, lead by voices of the past, the present and from far away. We construct a paradise, only to gently tear it down to see what remains. This is done through personal stories, video projections, songs, discussions and texts.
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.