Garden/ /Suburbia is an mp3-led sound and live performance walk conceived by Melanie Bennett with the collaboration of Hartley Jafine, Aaron Collier, and Andy Houston. A partly site-specific/partly ethnographic performance walk, it took place in and around the north Toronto neighbourhood of Lawrence Park in April 2010 as a workshop and then again in June 2010 for the Performance Studies International conference. The event was a research-led project that combined strategies of auto-ethnography, site-specificity, and participatory practices as an attempt to create a performance that was reflexive and intersubjective. This article will describe how auto-ethnography was used in Garden/ /Suburbia to generate alternative fictions to the uncontested histories and ‘realities’ embedded into Lawrence Park's discourse.
Legion of Memory is a site-specific performance co-created by Melanie Bennett and Andrew Houston, which was staged in an abandoned legion hall in downtown Kitchener,Ontario.Launched in June 2006 and remounted in April 2007, Legion of Memory attempts to animate the cultural displacement of the war veteran and refugee, while also exploring issues surrounding war memorials in Canada today.
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