The Conditions MAI
Dance, Visual Arts

Multidisciplinary art show The Conditions invites audiences to reconnect with bodily sensations

by Savannah Stewart

Six artists use dance, puppetry, installations and other disciplines to evoke nostalgia, discomfort and curiosity in this show at MAI, Nov. 12–16.

The multidisciplinary exhibition The Conditions will take up the full space at Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI) with video pieces, shadow puppetry, a live performance, an art installation and more. It all flows from contemporary dance artist Lucy M. May’s search for an embodied connection to her home of Wolastokuk/New Brunswick, all while coming to terms with her settler colonial origins. The Conditions presents the improvised works of six artists including May, evoking feelings of nostalgia and discomfort and inviting the audience to listen, watch, move through the space with curiosity and reconnect with the sensations of their body.

The Conditions is on at MAI (3680 Jeanne-Mance) from Nov. 12–16, talkback session moderated by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines on Nov. 13

Multidisciplinary art show The Conditions invites audiences to reconnect with bodily sensations

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Posted in Dance, Visual Arts

by Savannah Stewart

Contributing editor for Arts
Savannah Stewart is a freelance journalist and Managing Editor at The Rover. She is passionate about community reporting and is happiest writing about art, language and culture in Montreal.