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Stories are told and narratives are woven, a complex web of many voices and perspectives. The process of mythologizing takes a web of experience woven with many strands, and drops threads until a single one remains. It is a process that simplifies and seduces. spin is a three-part video inspired by the myth of the Three Fates, the Moirai: the personification of destiny in the greek mythology. Clotho is the spinner, Lachesis the allotter and Atropos the inexorable. Instead of 3 fates, this installation has 3 acts: time, fate and self-determination.

A performative work, it describes the creation of mythology, the elision and creation of ones own narrative.

Created by:
Alissa Firth-Eagland and Brenda Goldstein
Performed by:
Alissa Firth-Eagland, Anita Fontaine, Linling Hsu,
Lindsay MacDonald and Lee Sheppard
Costumes:
Jen Hutton
Camera:
Phil Bigelow
Editor:
Aleesa Cohene
Sound design by
Isabelle Noel
Produced with the generous support of The Ontario Arts Council.

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