Experience an interactive art installation that uses phones, fire, and folk music to explore our connection to the climate crisis!

A distortion of perception? Or just a bad connection?

A phone call bridges the gap between personal experiences and the grim realities that exist on the front lines of the global environmental crisis. A devastating forest fire comes to life. Melancholic melody and wistful lyricism weave into an unsettling crackle, forging together the layers of an uncomfortable and alarming soundscape.

Listen in on both sides of a phone conversation and hear how two extremes, ignorance and unobstructed, inescapable awareness, emerge.

October 5th-6th [Nuit Blanche]

7PM-7AM

October 7th, 9th, & 11th

4-7PM

October 12th

12-5PM

@ The Lost & Found

420 Queen St E, Toronto, ON

Artists: Micki-Lee Smith, Zakriya Bashir-Hill, Diana Lawryshyn, Pratap Mathews, & Yun Young Lee

Supported by Toronto Arts Council with funding from the City of Toronto.

Venue Access: Wheelchair accessible, washrooms are not wheelchair accessible. Interactive phones will be positioned at varying heights to accommodate a variety of users (wheelchair users, children).

The visual projection material may be triggering to those with light sensitivities.

Auditory aid: Lyric artwork will visually demonstrate how the sound quality varies on each interactive phone handset.

Visuals aid: Visual descriptions of the projection/lyric artwork will be provided via QR code as a digital .pdf.