The predetermined ingredients of sugar, spice, salt, pre-burnt matches, wilted or dried petals, sand, thread, hair and skinny bolts will serve as elements to define the death and rebirth of the self through the awakening of the individual in their space of progress. The audience participants, with the aid of the operators of this visual and emotional experience, will decipher which of the nine personal year numbers they are on in the numerological cycle of their lives, and will then add the same number of ingredients to their pile of mirror shards as they have years of experience. ![]() In this performance installation, audience participants are invited to transcend the boundaries of self-perception, construction, and hesitation, and awaken themselves visually and experientially to a new or potentially neglected side of their spirit by breaking a small mirror, and then subsequently grinding the shards so as to dispel or ward off any bad luck incurred. ![]() The associations of self through mirror-hood, so ardently celebrated through Lacan’s the mirror stage, have been so long-standing in our cultural history that the self and superstitions about the self abound. Mirrors have often been constructed and framed in the sense of spiritual self-signifiers. ![]() ![]() MirrOrriM (Mirror Mirror) at White House Studio Project in Toronto, ON Canada Collaborative Performance Piece Between: Jessica Cimo and Misty-Dawn MacMillan
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