Rosana Cade's Walking:Holding, which will be coming to Toronto on May 25th.
Would you walk a mile holding hands with a stranger? This performance piece is asking you to do just that | CBC Arts LoadedWould you walk a mile holding hands with a stranger? This performance piece is asking you to do just that
This weekend, something quietly transgressive will happen under Toronto's Gardiner Expressway: people will walk a mile holding hands with a stranger. It's part of a performance project at The Bentway calledthat's rooted in queer activism. Participants will go on a guided walk where they'll encounter and hold hands with a series of people along the way.essentially asks is how identity, intimacy, hypervisibility and vulnerability can intersect in public spaces.
"I became fascinated by the multiple ways in which our identities — including ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability, body size, class, etc. — and our personal history or relationship with certain places affect our experience of public space, as if we are all carrying around personal psychogeographic maps in our heads, constantly being etched with new memories as we move through the urban landscape.
"It is a rare experience to be so close to a stranger, to allow yourself to be led and to be given their undivided attention," Cade says. "Audience members are told before beginning that they can speak with the people they meet, there is no script and it's also fine if they want to be silent.
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