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Mammalian Diving Reflex and the Theatre Centre present Dada Data: art for the brain at Nuit Blanche
When you strap on those comfy shoes and hit the town after sundown for this year's Nuit Blanche, don't miss Dada Data, at the Theatre Centre's Pop-Up space. Statistically speaking, Mammalian Diving Reflex will inform and transform the city into an infinitesimal data bank made up of people like you: a walking, breathing, beautiful hunk of a datum. We will count your family, we will count your money, we will count your fears, we will count your pets and the hairs on your knuckles even as they fly at our calculating faces. Information overload? When everything counts, everything must be counting. It's Dada Data: counting to infinity.
Where: Theatre Centre Pop-Up, 1095 Queen St. West
When: Saturday, October 5th from 7pm-12am
Cost: Just your precious time
Want to volunteer? We'd love your help. Send an email to: eva@mammalian.ca
And this event will lead to...
Promises to a Divided City coming to the brand new Theatre Centre, January 2014
A Divided City has been up all night surfing the internet. The kaleidoscopic visions of war, death, sex, hatred, and kittens have left this young city in a state of exhaustion. The City now sleeps on a bed on a raft floating on a river drifting toward an abyss. The Divided City is oblivious to its plight. There are voracious creatures in the water, waiting hungrily for the raft to capsize and dinner to be served. You, the citizens, will be counted, classified and asked to step up and save this city, with one hand firmly placed on a sacred book of your choice, chosen from the vast collection in our Library of Babel. We know you can do it; we have more faith in you than there are cars in this Divided City.
The Carnegie Library has been asleep for a long time. Now the new home of the Theatre Centre, the old building will open its doors and reveal its slumbering visions. Mammalian Diving Reflex and their resident ensemble of teenagers, The Torontonians, will seep into the architecture, like a cold fog, and slowly, with your help, begin the resuscitation process.
Mammalian creates complex work all over the place utilizing, as raw material, the souls of people. We bring ordinary people together in unusual ways, step out of the way, and let what happens happen. Promises to a Divided City stars teenagers, books, stories, you and your mother.
2013-10-02
Toronto: Mammalian Diving Reflex presents "Dada Data: art for the brain" at Nuit Blanche October 5