Difference of a Shared Spirit

2024 Toronto Biennial of Art

Storyteller and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Shortt and transmedia artist and UofT professor of black studies and the archive SA Smythe are invited to collaborate with 2024 TBA exhibition artist Maria Hupfield in relation to her commission The Supernatural Powers of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan). Working alongside one another, each performer breathes life into Maria’s work, expanding the breadth of her ongoing research into silver jingle bells and tin jingles. Through experimental sound and contemporary movement, a demonstration of storytelling will unfold.

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This program was a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.

This program was made possible by the Women Leading Initiative.

Image credits: Difference of a Shared Spirit, September 21, 2024. Featuring: Maria Hupfield, olivia shortt, and SA Smythe. Program held at 32 Lisgar Street as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art 2024. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias. Curator: Jenn Goodwin (Toronto Biennial of Art Curator, Public Programs)