(Intervention / photographs / video / performance)

Snowbank
Diane Borsato
Toronto, 2007

I was asked to create a project in collaboration with performers from another discipline, so I decided to work with dancers. Working with my own conceptual art instructions, and the possibility that non-virtuosic everyday movements can be dance, I led a large group of dancers to move a snowbank in white pails across the city - by foot, by subway and by bus - up to the Art Gallery of York University. The absurd and heroic feat was accompanied by periodic outbursts of experimental trumpet music, composed and performed by Emilie Le Bel.

Participants:
Emilie Le Bel
Janina Piva
Ryan Gibson
Amber Landgeaff
Kristen Keller
Sarah Douglas
Alex Thompson
Alison Smith
Sky Fairchild-Waller
Danny Jordon
Allison Peacock
Julie Grant
Day Milman
Riaz Mehmood
Nadia Kurd
Liz Knox
Serena Lee
Alicia Grant
Cara Spooner
Nadia Halim
Andrea Roberts
Rhonda Corvese
Diane Borsato
Amish Morrell

Photo credits: #1,2 Diane Borsato, #3 Nadia Halim, #4 Day Milman.

Exhibition History:
AGYU (Art Gallery of York University), Relational intervention, video and photographs, for the exhibition "in there", curated by Rhonda Corvese. Spring 2007, Toronto.