Experiment Group #3
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Team Members
Sarah Tracy
Sarah is a performance artist and designer. Current personal artistic practices explore medium-based story-telling experiences and theatre for the subconscious. She is the historical costume designer for Black Creek Pioneer Village; co-founder of music label, Outlier Communications; and co-curator/technical director of performing object events Café Concret and Concrete Cabaret.
Website: www.sarahtracy.org
Instagram: @foundnotions
John Collingswood
John is a British artist, designer and DJ living in Northern Finland. He is a director of TaikaBox - an organization dedicated to developing collaborative practice with a focus on bringing together the worlds of dance and technology.
Since graduating from Gwent College with a degree in Fine Art in the early 90’s, he has applied his creative problem-solving expertise in a variety of contexts, including; clothing design, nightclub visuals, radio broadcasting, film-making, gallery installation, lighting/set/props/sound design for theatre and dance, teaching, web design, developing augmented reality heritage sites, photography and much more.
John’s main areas of focus are currently based around creating interactive systems for performance, site-specific light art and facilitating collaborative research, which manifest in performances made by TaikaBox, creating work for LUMO - Oulu Light Festival and organizing a programme of artist residencies, including the annual Oulu Dance Hack. John also broadcasts a bi-weekly radio show on KRO.FM.
Amber O’Reilly
Amber is a French-Canadian multilingual poet, spoken word artist, playwright and screenwriter from Yellowknife and based in Winnipeg since 2013. Her poetry and critical writing have appeared in several journals, magazines and newspapers and she has performed across Canada. Her French-language poetry collection Boussole franche is published with Les Éditions du Blé and won the 2021 Prix-littéraire Rue-Deschambault (Manitoba Book Awards). Her play Annie et Tom du lundi au vendredi is currently streaming online, and has received two professional readings: the 10th Festival à haute voix at Théâtre l'Escaouette in Moncton and the 12th Women Playwrights International Conference (June 20-25, 2022).
Ryan Wilcox
Ryan Wilcox (they/them) is a neurodivergent, nonbinary theatre creator based in Kjipuktuk, colonially known as Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ryan is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Production Design and Technical Arts Program where they trained as a theatre designer and manager. They are currently developing a new work about queer self-actualisation titled ‘i think i loved you (and it scares me), which is being developed with Impulse Theatre’s ‘Peek Fest.’ Ryan is also learning what it means to be a settler on turtle island, and how we can work towards true reconciliation with our hearts and minds open.