Nuit Blanche 2024: Love Across Distance
October 5 @ 7:00 pm - October 6 @ 7:00 am
For Nuit Blanche 2024 an installation piece titled Love Across Distance will be presented at The ArQuives.
Long distance relationships are a reality for many LGBTQ2+ individuals, particularly in remote areas of Canada, as online technology now allows many people to connect with others across geographic distances.
The installation offers a sense of experiencing love despite a geographic distance from a romantic partner. Social media, dating apps and online dating have made it possible for people of all backgrounds, genders and orientations to meet and connect, despite geographic distance. But how are the sensorial experiences of love and intimacy experienced? Is it possible to truly feel sensations, to develop trust and learn about one another if technology, video and sound are the only methods of communication while apart?
Using a combination of sound and infrared technology, this interactive installation allows audiences to ponder these questions, while considering, is it possible to experience true love across distance? The installation piece features two interactive stations with a representation of a partner or lover, visible in one of the windows of our heritage house. Particularly for LGBTQ2+ people in remote parts of Canada, meeting lovers or romantic partners may only be possible through technology, sometimes across great distances.
Jordan King is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, performer and writer. Her practice is rooted in performance, archival research and intergenerational dialogue. Jordan’s work is generative, intersectional, and exploratory.
Nathan Bruce is a projection and lighting designer working in theatre and interactive installation. He is a Bachelors of Fine Arts Graduate of York University (2020) in Theatre Production & Design, with an extensive and rapidly expanding resume.
Jordan and Nathan have co-designed the interactive installation for “Love Across Distance”.