Horny sekai nudity5/28/2023 ![]() Out of those thoughts came Sheets, which, after it hatched at HATCH, had the honour of being the final production at Toronto performance space Videofag. The space between two people is not necessarily distance. "Like, how do you achieve shared privacy while making sure to tenderize and not terrorize an audience with it? Which was a really mind-blowing thing for me to think about." Nudity is not synonymous with vulnerability. ![]() "He shared with us the exercises and the steps and the ideology around exploring intimacy with an audience," Antonio recalls. When Antonio came back from his jet-setting stint, he did a workshop called "Intimacy and Performance" with the late Adrian Howells, a performance artist from England. And then from that I'd wonder how many people had sex in this bed or how people had killed themselves in this bed. "I would sit in the room and look up when the hotel was built, and then would start doing laws of averages - like, 'If it's been open this long, how people have come through?' Like you're ever going to get to sleep doing that. Over this year, Antonio spent a lot of time not being able to sleep in these rooms. I became very aware of how different I was in a space that was neutral and had been built to look homey but actually wasn't mine." And I realized how much I defined myself by my trappings. ![]() I imagine it's something, you know, rock stars go through all the time, but for me it was very unusual. "I was filming around the world in some really nice hotels that just came as part of the contract," he says. The play's first iteration was in 2012 as part of the HATCH residency at the Harbourfront Centre, where participants submit a proposal and are given a week in their theatre with full tech to just try something out. Antonio was just coming off a year where he spent a lot of time in hotel rooms, so they were at the forefront of his mind.
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