K BODY AND MIND
A work of science-fiction by A Wake of Vultures | Conor Wylie
Live Multimedia Premiere May 4-7, 2022
@ The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
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ABOUT THE SHOW
In 20XX, a security specialist named Kawabi wants what everyone wants: to leave behind the scars of sickness, hunger, and war…and lead a new life in a new body. She joins The Grove, an idealistic start-up with a fleet of bioengineered and shareable bodies. But when a hostile entity hacks The Grove’s network, colonizing the minds and bodies of its inhabitants, Kawabi must rescue her new home…by reckoning with a ghost of the past.
A new work of science-fiction created by Vancouver-based interdisciplinary performance collective A Wake of Vultures, led by Siminovitch Prize Protégé Conor Wylie. Originally planned as a live theatre performance, K BODY AND MIND was re-envisioned as a miniseries in 2021, and premiered as a live multimedia performance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from May 4-7, 2022. Blending overloaded 90s anime and cyberpunk aesthetics with an off-kilter and mesmerizing minimalist performance style, K BODY AND MIND is an impossible sci-fi epic performed by two bodies in an abandoned 100-year-old theatre.
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GALLERY
A Wake of Vultures lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, and occupied territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations, on the land colonially known as Vancouver.
K BODY AND MIND was shot on location at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, in the James Cowan Theatre, situated in Burnaby, BC. Burnaby is located on the ancestral and unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Kwikwetlem nations.
We are grateful to work as guests on these lands.
