Through my Lens by Amy Amantea
An interdisciplinary performance exploring a reciprocal collision of the visual and non-visual experience
Attended at FOLDA 2022 in Kingston, ON
Attended at FOLDA 2022 in Kingston, ON
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Written and Performed by: Amy Amantea
Written and Directed by: James Long Assistant Directed by: Arthi Chandra Media Design and Operation: Nico Dicecco Outside Eye by: Tania El-Khoury Photography by: Amy Amantea Photography Mentorship by: Rick Hulbert Production Assistance by: Jordyn Wood Creative Technology and Media Consult by: Patrick Pennefather Acknowledgements: Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, SpiderWebShow Performance, Theatre Replacement Presented by Theatre Replacement Through My Lens is an interactive performance that combines hospitality, image analysis and spoken text within a Zoom environment.
Amy Amantea is an artist with a lived experience of blindness, having a total of 2% vision in one eye. She is also a photographer whose practice includes walking the city at twilight looking for interesting light patterns and capturing them with her camera. Through My Lens is an interdisciplinary performance that brings Amantea’s life experiences into one space and shares with audiences what it is to live with blindness. The audience will act as Amantea’s “eyes”, describing her photos —which have never been seen by her — back to her. This interaction will open up a new realm of perception: a reciprocal collision of the visual and non-visual experience. |
Image by Amy Amantea
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Presentations
- Vines Festival August 14th, 2021
- Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) June 10th, 2022
