Performance

The Rhubarb Festival

2023, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto

Photography by Henry Chan

and Coman Poon

A re-creation of an excerpt from the film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” by Chantal Akerman. The actions of polishing shoes and making coffee are repeated in three different variations: in a video with the same choreography as the film, in a slide show of AI visuals generated by text prompts describing the actions, and performed live on stage.