Walls can both protect and isolate. Building a wall between the audience and the performer can be a little awkward, especially when it doesn’t work. This work is about building walls. In different configurations, the wall offers different amounts of stability, protection, and isolation for the performer. Each wall has a serious flaw and the audience watches at the wall topples, is not high enough to protect, is damaging to the performer, or is otherwise inadequate. This work is about protection as well as vulnerability. The work uses humour and absurdity to confront real issues of protection, isolation, and building barriers.
This work is being developed with a grant from the Edmonton Arts Council.
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