CONOR WYLIE

CONOR WYLIE is a performer, writer, and director creating experimental theatre. Alongside Nancy Tam and Daniel O’Shea, he co-artistic directs A Wake of Vultures, a performance company working across sonic, visual, and theatrical disciplines, who are currently developing K BODY AND MIND and Nancy Tam’s Walking at Night by Myself.

Conor regularly collaborates with Theatre Replacement, Hong Kong Exile, and many members of Vancouver’s esteemed Progress Lab consortium. He is currently co-creating T/R’s MINE, as well as GIRL RIDES BIKE, an algorithmic multimedia motorcycle chase. Conor received a Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Theatre Artist in 2017.

K BODY AND MIND

In a deregulated zone in the Pacific, amidst a flurry of technological and genetic innovation, a new dream for humanity’s survival is born: BODY-SHARE. A security agent oversees the safe integration of participant minds and company bodies—while the bugs get worked out.

Envisioned as a wild 90’s anime epic squeezed into a minimalist theatrical container, this work-in-development is an interdisciplinary duet for two powerhouse women of colour, examining themes of hybrid identity, genetic memory, and start-up culture.

K BODY AND MIND is the second project to be commissioned for T/R’s COLLIDER Residency, a program built around PushOFF to foster artistic practice among Vancouver performance-makers. Future development is scheduled throughout 2019 and 2020.

Photos by Daniel O’Shea