Sophie Maguire + Azaia Windwraith

How does large scale infrastructure affect, resemble and respond to the human body? Imitating forms of erect concrete highway supports, crying on the tarmac, finding one's self next to the cranes of the port, this work and its performer live amongst the non-human in an effort to find how we fit in.

Sophie Maguire's parallel practices of landscape architecture and performance are ever informing one another and at many times converge. An evolving recalibration of everyday objects, landscapes, and movements paired with an intentional engagement with the historical layers of space, place and relation are at the foundation of this work. Sophie currently works as a landscape project designer and as an adjunct professor at UBC's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Azaia Windwraith is an educator, photographer, filmmaker and sociologist. Her sociological research has primarily focused on the relationship between language and the body, exploring the ways in which language shapes and informs lived experiences of trauma. Other work has involved archival research on women's incarceration in Canada and discursive figurations of incarcerated women in Canada's national imaginary. Azaia's artistic work further explores the relationship of the body in space, the body as space, the body as a site of pleasure/danger.