Songs of Absence

August 2020 - Work-in-progress of the studio version, KW Studios (Vancouver, Canada) 

https://vimeo.com/482174505 (performance - 25 min.) 

15 August 2020 - Work-in-progress of the site-specific version, Vines Art Festival (at Hadden Park, near Kitsilano Beach, Vancouver, Canada) Video documentation by David Laslo

https://vimeo.com/448316000 (performance: 45 min.) 

The first of its series is based on the character Lavinia in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Lavinia is the daughter of Titus, a general in the Roman army who is engaged in a cycle of revenge. I focus on the scene in which Lavinia is raped, and is then hung from a dead tree trunk. Her tongue and hands were cut off by the assailants after she was raped. The violence is not visualized nor indicated; it is indirectly implied through her response to it through silence. How I can embody her silent response to such horrific violence is my main question.