Mile One
A performance-on-the-move happening -
exploring the refugee experience.
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Mile One
accompanied a one mile walk
in solidarity with refugees,
from Toronto City Hall to Queen's Park.
15 Minutes of Fame
was exhibited at Queen's Park.
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- an interactive installation featuring:
a bare prison bed; blanket, sheet & pillow; and a standard-issue prison suitcase containing assorted personal items.
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- open the suitcase; consider, select and arrange items upon and around the bed to create a new installation -
a personal artistic statement about incarceration -
then:
- present and discuss their installation with other visitors
- write about their installation in the Book of Fame,
which is on site and open for everyone to read.
- Other visitors are invited to write comments about this and other installations in the Book of Fame.
- Each installation remains on display for a maximum of 15 minutes. Installations are documented through digital photos and posted subsequently online.
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click here for video slideshow
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Mile One is the first stage of an ongoing project entitled Until You Walk
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Until You Walk is rooted in the concept:
“Until you walk a mile in a person’s shoes
you cannot know or judge them.”
Featuring 5280 shoes, photo-based encaustic painting, video and audio collage, Until You Walk is a process-oriented multi-year interactive art project based upon the personal histories of 2640 Canadian immigrants, refugees and culturally displaced persons.
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Developing over several years, Until You Walk will include:
- Happenings - i.e: World Refugee Day:
– outreach events, workshops, interactive performances, interview & photograph sessions of participants with their shoes;
- a series of live interactive guerrilla-style sculpture installations
– a mile of shoes (5280) exhibited outdoors or indoors at host galleries and venues across Canada
* bring and donate a pair of shoes
* write your story on paper, crumple it and stuff it into the toe of the shoe.
* afterwards, your shoes will be donated to needy people in the region.
* (Stuffing your history into the toe of your shoe is a pun, in English, on the idea that we arrive in Canada with our his/her/story in “tow”.)
- A downloadable audio collage by Amanta Scott featuring ‘experiences’ (personal histories, songs, poems and dances) of 2640 participants
- a virtual exhibition & online community forum
see facebook group UNTIL YOU WALK: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53713986021
- a series of photo-based encaustic painting collages by Amanta Scott, utilizing digital photos of participants and their shoes, expressing the history, context or feelings associated with each individual.
- an accompanying book/ catalogue – featuring photos, stories, photo-based encaustic paintings and background information on all participants.
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contact Amanta
if you would like to participate or require further information
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