The Space Between Us by Clayton Windatt Installation+Performance

What binds people and regions to one another? What are the messages that unify us or drive us apart? THE SPACE BETWEEN US is a series of community-engaged activations exploring the spaces between arts advocates and communities they set out to represent. The project is a body of text-based works, poems and spoken word performances that engage audiences from North Bay, Ontario through the Sun dog theatre festival, and in Durham, Ontario through the Fabulous Festival and Fringe Film. Exploratory discussions on-site during each festival create new works with community in real-time. Each performance will be a reflection of a moment, a person and/or a situation where things have gone very well or had catastrophic results. The public engagements will act as a rallying call for festival patrons to participate and get involved.

Clayton Windatt is a Métis non–binary multi-artist living and working in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. With an extensive history working in Artist-Run Culture and Community Arts, Clayton was also Executive Director of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and worked on national and global issues and social justice. Clayton is an active film director with works featured in festivals such as ImagineNative and the Toronto International Film Festival. Clayton works in/with community, design, communications, curation, performance, theatre, technology, consulting, and is a very active writer, filmmaker and visual-media artist.