Sarah Conn (she/her) is a performance director, producer, and curator. Sarah’s performances, installations, and live art have been presented by galleries and festivals across Canada, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, England, and Germany. Her practice centers on interdisciplinary and socially-engaged collaborations which are activated in site-specific contexts and non-traditional venues, including the digital space. The resulting performances are personal and participatory, offering complex negotiations of agency, dissensus, and choice.
Sarah is the Creative Director of Trophy, an award-winning interdisciplinary art collective that creates porous work for non-traditional spaces. The collective’s work is characterized by modularity, scalability, and multiplicity of entry points for engagement. Currently, we’re developing Remixed, a hybrid digital/in-person immersive listening party during which audiences interact with our progressive web app, generating personalized playlists that explore how we instigate change individually and collectively. The collective is also touring the self-titled Trophy, a performance installation comprised of 1-150 architectural tents that celebrates diverse communities’ stories of transformation. Through these pieces, Sarah became an accidental change researcher, gently weaving psychology, data science and deeply personal conversations with hundreds of people across the globe to attend to how we experience change in our lives, communities, and world.
Committed to new creation, Sarah is the Artistic Associate of the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund, and the recipient of two Rideau Awards, the 2016 Siminovitch Protégé Prize for Directing, and the 2018 Ontario Arts Council Pauline McGibbon Award for Directing. She holds an MA in Performance Curation from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. Her research focuses on curatorial strategies as collaborative frameworks, first within interdisciplinary creation, and expanding to any process bringing people together across difference.
Sarah is the Creative Director of Trophy, an award-winning interdisciplinary art collective that creates porous work for non-traditional spaces. The collective’s work is characterized by modularity, scalability, and multiplicity of entry points for engagement. Currently, we’re developing Remixed, a hybrid digital/in-person immersive listening party during which audiences interact with our progressive web app, generating personalized playlists that explore how we instigate change individually and collectively. The collective is also touring the self-titled Trophy, a performance installation comprised of 1-150 architectural tents that celebrates diverse communities’ stories of transformation. Through these pieces, Sarah became an accidental change researcher, gently weaving psychology, data science and deeply personal conversations with hundreds of people across the globe to attend to how we experience change in our lives, communities, and world.
Committed to new creation, Sarah is the Artistic Associate of the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund, and the recipient of two Rideau Awards, the 2016 Siminovitch Protégé Prize for Directing, and the 2018 Ontario Arts Council Pauline McGibbon Award for Directing. She holds an MA in Performance Curation from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. Her research focuses on curatorial strategies as collaborative frameworks, first within interdisciplinary creation, and expanding to any process bringing people together across difference.
Links
www.thisistrophy.com
https://www.dramaturgiesofparticipation.com/the-blog/seeds-nurturing-change-through-emergent-
strategy
https://www.dramaturgiesofparticipation.com/remixed.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/why-are-there-tiny-tents-near-dublin-s-dame-
street-1.3216725
https://musingsinintermissions.blogspot.com/2017/09/sto-union-and-change-of-address-
trophy.html#more
Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: @thisistrophy
https://www.dramaturgiesofparticipation.com/the-blog/seeds-nurturing-change-through-emergent-
strategy
https://www.dramaturgiesofparticipation.com/remixed.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/why-are-there-tiny-tents-near-dublin-s-dame-
street-1.3216725
https://musingsinintermissions.blogspot.com/2017/09/sto-union-and-change-of-address-
trophy.html#more
Social Media
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: @thisistrophy
