(Live performance)

The Practical Applications of Math
Diane Borsato
Toronto, 2007

I delivered a humourous lecture-based performance in order to elaborate on the conviction that mathematics is relevant to the everyday lives of artists and all of us. While covering a large chalk-board with absurd computations, and in an effort to rescue math from an imaginary discourse of defensiveness, I described how mathematics can support and explain everything from gambling and baking, to space, time, and death. To complete the 20-minute lecture, I answered planted questions, and demonstrated how homological algebra could make flames come out of my hands.

Exhibition history:
The Power Plant, Live component of Winter programming. Curated by Helena Reckitt. New performance,
The Practical Applications of Math, and Artist Talk. Winter 2007, Toronto.

To see video documentation of the 20-minute performance, contact The Power Plant's administrative offices.