The Power Plant

Join artist Ange Loft in a participatory workshop exploring sound, movement, and material response. Employing rhythmic, poetic, and art-based research, generate response and performative acts in relation to Jeneen Frei Njootli’s The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze. Resonate, imprint, shift, and scape sound around the work, collectively moving across the gallery toward an impromptu performance. Participants are invited to co-create brief, performative, multidisciplinary acts through a series of context-generating activities and participatory prompts using clay, beads, text, and voice.

Ange Loft is Kanien'kehá:ka from Kahnawà:ke, living and working across disciplines in Toronto. Her extensive history of theatrical co-creation, Indigenous context generation, wearable sculpture and experimental music merge toward performances that are image first and rhythm forward. She writes, directs, and co-designs large scale, multi-form projects, creating workshops, installations, art films, and publications in tandem with her work, including the Talking Treaties suite (Jumblies Theatre + Arts). 1400-1700 pottery patterns are at the heart of her new work Carrying Patterns and related productions she’d directed including Stone and Bone Spectacular (Centaur Theatre), Visibly Iroquoian (Canadian Centre for Architecture), as curator of the Highland Creek Mural (Street Art Toronto), and as generative content at Concordia Theatre. She’s generated countless ephemeral performances in community settings, crafting with care, satire and a surealist touch. Her vast performing legacy includes a decade of touring with Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Storyweaving with Spiderwoman Theatre, and appearances in Indigenous performance experiments on major international stages.