Klangfest Heir!

ZK/U, Centre for Art and Urbanism, Berlin, 2017

In this experimental and participatory event, audience members were given hand-made papier maché sculptural instruments designed to enhance the act of listening, engage in collective singing and sound-making, and solicit movement. Led by the celebrated Canadian actor and playwright, Martin Julien, and myself, this spontaneous encounter sought to foster uninhibited creative play free from the usual self-conscious constraints that accompany adult gatherings in public space. Cameras phones and other documentary recordings were notably absent for this reason. Iterations of this event have taken place on other venues in Toronto and in Ottawa, and have included collaborations with Dancing Parkinson’s, the innovative research-based program initiated by Mark Morris Dance Group.