Installations of the video work “At Dawn, I Will Win”

-Reeling: Dancing on Screen, a film festival by Mile Zero Dance, Edmonton, AB, Sept. 15-22, 2018

-Nuit Blanche Regina, Regina, SK, Sept. 29, 2018

-Saskatchewan Fashion Week 2019, Regina, SK, May 9-11, 2019

The piece, At Dawn, I Will Win, is a video installation, exploring the movement of bodies in water, to address the shared experience of gender-based oppression. The piece is intended to challenge the viewer to consider how widely accepted historical art has been built on the objectification of women. The use of embroidery also signals an important metaphor in the piece. Much like the dismissal of embroidery as “women’s work”, women’s voices, experiences and emotions are too often dismissed on a daily basis. However, the video invokes an image of hope through this shared experience, through bodies guiding each other to the surface. By reclaiming the lyric, “At Dawn, I Will Win”, an English translation from Nessun Dorma (the famous aria by Puccini in Turandot), I hope to subvert the text and turn it into a feminist mantra. Although as women we continue to face a society that denies our voices, we are strong enough to pull each other up. There is solidarity born from facing daily oppression. Just as the women in the video are physically connected, so are we through shared experience. This piece allows a place to challenge our history, acknowledge our present and offer an empathetic future.