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11:30 AM-12:00 PM

CANCELLED : "What Happens Next is Up to You" by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Interactive 'Playformance'|MUTEK Forum

  • Monument National, Montreal

  • English, with live transcription available.
  • 85$ | Day Pass price, excl. fees & taxes
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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley at MUTEK Forum © Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Photo: Laura Schaeffer

Due to a labor dispute at a major Canadian airline, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley was unfortunately unable to arrive in Montreal on time. MUTEK was therefore forced to cancel the event.

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In an interactive ‘playformance’ Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s What Happens Next is Up to You places the audience at the center of a provocative narrative on censorship and division.
 
THERE HAS ONLY BEEN FIRE
THERE HAS ONLY BEEN POLARISATION
THERE HAS ONLY BEEN INTOLERANCE
WE CAN'T REMAIN LIKE THIS
WE ALL HOLD A ROLE IN THE WORLD WE ARE BUILDING
COME AND FIND OUT WHAT ROLE YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING
THIS IS AN INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE
YOU WILL DETERMINE WHAT WE TALK ABOUT
AND WHERE WE GO
YOU MAY FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE
—from Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley


This presentation is part of Day 1 of MUTEK Forum 2025: Expanding Realities: Immersive Media and Storytelling

Day 1 of MUTEK Forum 2025 explores how technology is reshaping the way we experience narrative. From memory and identity to embodiment and design, this day invites participants to rethink storytelling as an immersive, collaborative, and radical act. Expanding Realities: Immersive Media & Storytelling, presented by the Canada Media Fund (CMF), dives into new narrative forms and methods of worldbuilding across visual, sonic, and technological landscapes.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a Berlin/London-based artist. They received a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2019. Brathwaite-Shirley works predominantly in animation, sound, performance, and video game development. Their practice focuses on intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell the stories of Black Trans people. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and performances at institutions such as Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2024), LAS Art Foundation, Berlin (2024), Studio Voltaire, London (2024), SCAD, Savannah (2023), Art Night, Dundee (2023), and Villa Arson, Nice (2023). Their work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2022), Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich (2019), Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2019), and Barbican, London (2018).

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Artist

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