Steve Day
Steve Day is a multidisciplinary artist: playwright, puppeteer, clown and theater actor. He is a graduate of the École Philippe Gaulier and is currently studying puppetry full-time at the École Supérieure de Théâtre de l’UQAM. Steve has been hard of hearing since birth and now proudly wears Phonak Audeo M90-Rs, which he may let you try if you politely ask. He believes that his hearing loss contributed to his social difficulties, which led him to develop a deep interiority and imagination that influence his work.
He is an ongoing student of Italian theater and clown pedagogue Giovanni Fusetti, who teaches Lecoq-style pedagogy with a somatic approach. Somatic work has been part of Steve’s practice since long before he knew it had to be called that: in 2017, in Montreal, he co-founded Danser Dans L’Noir, a fortnightly evening of free dance in total darkness, which he runs permanently with a small team. He was a guest artist at the Labrador Creative Arts Festival in 2017 and 2018. Thanks to a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, he is currently reworking, with a team, his solo webcam/toy theater piece, Wild Bill’s Facebook Livefeed Feeding-Time Youtube Yeeeehaw!!!! To earn money, he works as an assistant to disabled people and as a deckhand and assistant engineer on ships with the Seafarers’ International Union of Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard.
À nos prothèses is a collective project that questions relations of intimacy, conviviality, dispossession and (in)accessibility to our ‘ordinary’ prostheses. Prostheses are physical, digital, urban or sensory extensions that allow us to complete, extend and adjust our being to ourselves and our being together. Prostheses can be material (hearing aids, canes, glasses, dental prostheses, etc.), digital or urban (access ramps). This project is concerned with ordinary prostheses and claims solidary approaches in the sense of Donna Haraway (Cyborg Manifesto), Crip solidarities (Mia Mingus, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha), CRIP Art and feminist, queer, Crip and Cyborg interconnections (Alison Kafe, Mallory Kay Nelson, Ashley Shew, Bethany Stevens.).