Installations with Performance • Mile One - Until You Walk

Mile One

A performance-on-the-move choreographed by Amanta Scott in honour of the refugee experience,

created for UNHCR for World Refugee Day Toronto, 2009


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Mile One and 15 Minutes of Fame
featured in

World Refugee Day Toronto

hosted by UNCHR

June 20th 2009



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.


15 Minutes of Fame

- an interactive installation featuring:
a bare prison bed; blanket, sheet & pillow; and a standard-issue prison suitcase containing assorted personal items.


Visitors are invited to:

  • 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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Exhibitions
2009

Pix&Paint - juried photo-based painting exhibition: Cube Gallery, Ottawa
World Refugee Day - Toronto
The New Hybrids - Juried exhibition in mixed media: Living Arts Centre, Mississauga
2008 ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche
2004

premiere - Art Gallery of Algoma


© Amanta Scott • www.amantascott.com
Revised: Thursday, April 7, 2011