How do we try to ask more and deeper questions? Let’s generate and be with some unanswerable or difficult questions and allow what’s latent or nascent in us to surface. Let’s invite the guidance of our not-knowing.
The workshop, led by Aisha Sasha John, will invite participants to gather in four parts:
a) an intensive question-writing period;
b) question selection and exchange;
c) being with questions; and
d) discussion
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This series of artist-led workshops consider how expressions of voice operate “off the page” to explore the world-shaping power of narrative, which continues to be urgent amidst ongoing colonial violences. Participants will experiment with the influence of language, media, and art on how stories and knowledge are acted upon, shaped, and recorded. Through a lens of embodied and collective critical practices, these workshops ask: How do we seek the difficult questions? How do we recuperate images from the gazes of their uncomfortable archives? How can visual print media and protest intervene in everyday life, through web-like ways? How does your voice influence your surroundings?
This program is co-produced in partnership with C Magazine.
November 8
6:00pm – 8:30pm
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
Artist Bio
Aisha Sasha John
Aisha Sasha John is interested in performance as a site of rehearsing being and in the power of reception as creative methodology. She’s the 2023–2025 Toronto Dance Theatre Affiliate Artist and will be creating a new work in 2025, The Pool, with the TDT ensemble. John’s duet with Devon Snell, DIANA ROSS DREAM (Danse-cité), premiered in fall 2022 and was developed during a 2019–2022 Dancemakers choreographic residency. Her first full-length solo work debuted as the aisha of oz at the Whitney Museum in 2017, and in 2018, iterations were presented at MAI and Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival. From 2015–2017, John choreographed, performed, and curated as a member of the collective WIVES, presenting ACTION MOVIE at La Chapelle (2017). John’s video work and text art have been exhibited in galleries (Doris McCarthy, Oakville Galleries). A celebrated poet, John is the author of the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize nominated collection I have to live (McClelland & Stewart, 2017) and THOU (Book*hug, 2014). Her fourth collection total will be published in spring 2025.
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