Nuit Blanche: Snake Girl's Hyperbolic Time Chamber
Contemporary Art Works on Queen Street West presents: Snake Girl's Hyperbolic Time Chamber, a Nuit Blanche performance by Maya Ben David curated by Earl Miller and The Queen Street West BIA. It will run from 9pm-3pm. A schedule with peak times in the performance will be posted closer to the date.
This performance would not be possible without the creative collaboration with artists Brandon Doty, Alejandra Monreal, Stephen Thomas and Alvin Luong, all of whom will also be performing.
Snake Girl's Hyperbolic Time Chamber is made in dedication to the 20 children of Bullenhuser Damm, upon whom Nazi Physician Kurt Heissmeyer conducted tortuous pseudo-medical experiments during WWII in an attempt prove Nazi race theories. All 20 children were eventually murdered. Ben David is a cousin of Marek James, one of those 20 children.
Snake Girl carries the 3rd-generation trauma from the Holocaust, and exists in a time when neo-Nazis are not only resurfacing but thriving.