Tag: Sasha Singer-Wilson

Canada
www.sashasingerwilson.com

Sasha Singer-Wilson (she/her) is a Tkaronto based multidisciplinary artist of Lithuanian, Italian, Irish and British ancestry who works in performance, theatre-making, research, writing, music, and facilitation. With a practice rooted in the project-specific exploration of creative form and process and the tensions and play between them, Sasha’s work explores climate justice, place, intergenerational relationships, caregiving, ritual, and the voice. She has co-created performances in basements, alleyways, bathrooms, lofts, schools, theatres and online. Together with Lou Jurgens, Sasha co-ran the artist-driven performance company the blood projects, co-creating immersive and site-specific performances in intimate spaces. With a BFA in Acting from York and an MFA in Theatre and Creative Writing from UBC, Sasha is a research-creation PhD student in Theatre & Performance Studies at York. Her research explores relationality, ancestral and land connection, and decolonization in scholarship, creation and performance. Sasha teaches voice and speech at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre and York, and she has facilitated workshops in theatre, creative writing, and voice across Turtle Island.

© Sasha Singer-Wilson. Photo Khanya Alexis.

ARTISTS
Amy Hull
Claudia Edwards
Joyce LeeAnn
Sasha Singer-Wilson
Trish Lanns

not knowing is the most intimate explores themes of collective and personal grief, and the ways in which we might connect through shared vulnerability. Inspired by the Buddhist koan, “not knowing is the most intimate,” the project embraces the uncertainty of our contemporary emotional landscapes, inviting both artists and audiences to move into the discomfort of uncharted waters.

While reading Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s Hospicing Modernity, I was struck by the idea that domination often involves a deliberate denial of relationships and a suppression of the senses. Drawing on Dwayne Donald’s assertion that sensory atrophy is central to this process – disrupting traditional knowledge systems and relational connections—I began to consider how deeply this numbness has seeped into the fabric of modern life. What would it mean to counter this—to resist detachment—through intimacy and attunement? This question sits at the heart of this curatorial series, exploring how performance can reawaken connection through embodied presence and shared vulnerability in times of grief.

Bringing together artists whose work grapples with death, mourning, collective grief, climate anxiety, somatics, and rituals of healing, the series unfolds across live performances, an immersive book installation, a sound bath and guided meditation inspired by the tradition of living funerals. It is an experiment in shedding emotional armour – to feel, to connect, to soften. It is an invitation to let grief become a shared language that unites rather than isolates—guiding us beyond knowing and into the realm of embodied presence and relationship.

SCHEDULE of performances

Saturday, May 10
6:30pm: Performance by Sasha Singer-Wilson
8:00–9:30pm: Embracing the Waves of Grief: A Sound Healing Meditation with Trish Lanns**
**Limited number of spots available. Please REGISTER HERE.

Saturday, May 17
Time TBA: Performances by Amy Hull and Claudia Edwards