Needle and Thread: Suzanne Miller, Mindy Yan Miller and Allan Paivio
Free public performance and reception to take place on May 2 from 5 - 7 pm
At the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery until May 3, 2019
Performance and reception: May 2, 5 - 7 pm
Free and open to the public
Needle and Thread starts from a list of 600 given names of Holocaust victims collected by Yad Vashem (World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem). The work is a commemorative performance that develops from the dance and installation practices of Suzanne Miller and Mindy Yan Miller.
Mindy sits and sews onto a large pieced skirt, constructed from unwanted garments, adding her thoughts and labour, stitch by stitch. Suzanne wears the skirt and performs a series of embodied inscriptions, tracing each of the given names gathered from the “Pages of Testimony.” Sound design by Allan Paivio deploys whispers and song as the names punctuate and weave through an ambient industrial undertone, contrasted with the calls of songbirds.
Performances will take place on May 1 and May 3 from 12:30 – 1 pm. After a short break, people will be invited to converse and sew with the artists from 1:30 – 4:30 pm.
Needle and Thread is supported by the University of Saskatchewan Art Galleries.