Location: Keynote Zoom Room
Convenor / Creator: Christine Mazumdar
Performers: Christine Mazumdar and Jenn Cole
Seaside Words from the Disappearing Girl
A work-in-progress visual poetry anthology by Dr. Christine Mazumdar which examines testimonies of solitude in nature during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this research, Mazumdar performs a series of impromptu choreographies in nature across the four seasons. “Snow Etudes,” which takes place in winter, archives the body via snow prints; “Climbing Trees,” the summer iteration, honours a tree and Mazumdar’s family treehouse felled by a great windstorm; “Rock Waltz Etude,” performed on the shores of the St. Lawrence River in Fall 2022 examines the rhythmical pattern of waves, as Mazumdar ponders the question “will the rocks remember me when I’m gone?”