A series of live dance performances take place during the opening week of the Biennial as part of Interstellar Sleep, an immersive installation by Tripp produced in collaboration with astrophysicists from York University Observatory, cosmologist Dr. Renée Hlozek, and composer Mani Mazinani.
Image Credit: Caecilia Tripp, Interstellar Sleep, performance at the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photo: Triple Threat. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.
Bio
Caecilia Tripp (based in New York City, USA and Paris, France) is a conceptual artist whose primary mediums are film installation, soundscapes, sculpture and performance. Inspired by Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, her work shines a light on forms of freedom, utopia and civil disobedience at the crossroads of our worldliness, climate change and the cosmic spheres where her collaborative pieces seek to transcend social imaginaries and fixed identities. Her work has been shown internationally in museum venues and galleries, including numerous film festivals.