When I look at the camera, I'm looking at you is a live-online show broadcast via Zoom meeting that places sensation at the fore of virtual exchange. A series of choreographies that locate unique situations at the intersection of digital and "away from keyboard" spaces, WILATCILAY presents bodily understandings with no stable definitions and invites participants to add their experiences. The possibility of fluid and open exchange creates space for virtual mutualism and connection from-a-distance.
An artist working in dance for the past 18 years, Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject (they/she) creates, performs and DIY produces for the stage, club and site-specific spaces. Also a designer, Deanna codes for the web and creates for print. Subverting distinctions between so-called “high” and “low” art, embodied practice informs all of Mutable’s work. It’s all dance.
Practiced on stage, relaxed on the page, Ahmed Khalil is a portable creative who produced the music for When I look at the camera, I'm looking at you on the mobile device of his choosing.
creator, performer Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject
music Ahmed Khalil
we're grateful for support from Young Lungs Dance Exchange (Winnipeg), Canada Council for the Arts, Shooting Gallery Performance Series, Dazibao (Montréal), Playwrights Theatre Centre
We acknowledge that we live, work and play on the unceded territories of the xwmǝθkwǝy̓ǝm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. We strive to learn from, and be allies with, Indigenous Peoples.