What’s Safe

What’s Safe is a response to Toronto’s temporary social distancing measures in Trinity Bellwoods Park. With movements inspired by Deepa Iyer’s framework (2020) and Jay Pitter’s open letter to Canadian urbanists (2020)—What’s Safe calls in tensions of play, improvisation, creative problem-solving and surveillance, control, and space.

Documented cinematically by Heddy Graterol with dancers Lauren Runions and Maryanne Casasanta, and with researcher Mélika Hashemi during the height of the pandemic.