Vocalypse Productions: Voice Dance II – Tectonic Shift

Voice Dance II – Tectonic Shift is a choreography, an opera, and a performance art piece created and performed by Janice Isabel Jackson on metalsmith John Little’s phantasmagorical instrument called Tectonic Shift. This work speaks to the rituals and mythologies around metalsmithing and the belief that the metalsmith is as a mid-wife assisting in the birth of ore from the mine or womb. “What nature cannot accomplish in a vast space of time, we can achieve in a short space of time through our art.” Summa Perfectionis, 14th Century Alchemy. John Little's Tectonic Shift is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

 Janice Isabel Jackson – performer, creator
John Little – creator/metalsmith, Tectonic Shift