Hold it, kiss it, squeeze it etc.

2019

What are the narratives of death that inform our lives, our fears, our hopes? We are talking about deaths as universally grieved as those showcased on Access Hollywood, but also deaths in our lives, and the type of death that is so familiar in times of struggle that it is comes and goes like a member of the community- death in the time of revolution, in the time of war, in the time of epidemics. With inter-generationality at the crux of our collaboration, we have lived and will live through different revolutions, different world events, different epidemics. We will live through different eras, different epidemics, different deaths in our personal lives. One of us will outlive the other. We are coming to terms with this through performance.
A coming-together of two artists born 36 years apart who have both found themselves misfits in the Montreal performance scene: Jacqueline van de Geer and Michael Martini.

We premiered at the Rhubarb festival 2019 in Toronto.
credits: Connie Tzang