CREATIONS
Hoping for Transformation, created by Katie Cassady for “Dance Week” at the Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, explores the aspiration of the gallery goer to have a transformative experience in the context of the art gallery. An absurdist exploration of our hopeful internal experience when interacting with art, this work attempts to posit interaction with the gallery site as the impetus for transformation. Performed here by Katie Cassady, created for and in collaboration with Matisse Maitland, June 2019.
This work is composed of two solos, two chapters or meditations on interconnectedness. One chapter makes use of an anecdote told by Professor Robert Hass at the 2008 conference "Creativity in the Face of Climate Change", about cranes breeding in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. The other chapter focusses on the cultural conception of nature, and how we are not "other" or separate from nature, but intimately bound up with it. Through movement and performance, these two chapters together attempt to illustrate and think through specific perspectives on interconnectedness.
Performed by Eden Solomon and Katie Cassady, April 2018 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre 2018
Text: Robert Hass
Music: "Your Guts are Like Mine", "Sleep Maps", by Set Fire to Flames
text and music used with permission from original sources
Ice Piece 2016 Performed by Katie Cassady at the Shooting Gallery Performance Series #1 A meditation on temporality, transience, and impermanence.
A satirical exploration of one individual’s relationship with nature. Performed at BC Buds 2016 "Going Green", performed by Georgia Johnson, created by Katie Cassady.
Uncover/Cover 2016 Performed at UBC VISA 475 Showcase, performed by Katie Cassady An exploration of the relationship between the concept of earth and Canadian national identity based on the theory and work of Ana Mendieta, Jane Blocker, and Homi Bhabha.