Bed, Door, The Order of Things is both a bilingual dance-theatre show and an interactive nine-channel video matrix dealing with intimacy and boundaries. It was performed on stage at the Mainline Theatre in Montreal and was exhibited as part of the Masters of Applied Art graduate exhibition in Vancouver at the Charles H. Scott Gallery. I invited collaboration with artists working across a range of material practices including Simon White, Nicole Raziya Fong, Klara Du Plessis, Melina Stinson, Michael Mersereau, Elena Stoodley, Nada Wood, Tanya Stasilowitch, Levana Quinn, Manuel Shink, Marie Cécile Gimenez and Cameron Mitchell. I provided a set design of a bedroom with labeled sites and asked them to engage the sites through associations and stories. I transcribed everything that was said in the initial meetings from video recordings, and that transcription became the foundation for further engagements. I asked my collaborators to respond to this text with images, drawings and ideas to make up the event score.

This resulted in performances involving dance, sound and a multi-lingual text made up of moments of co-operation and transgression that were recorded for the camera. The recorded performance was followed by a discussion with the audience on May 30th in Montreal. The audio/ visual material and set were then transformed into an interactive media installation that required recipients to engage in an array of button pushing to affect their experience in the gallery.