Torien Cafferata

Bio:

Torien Cafferata is an AuDHD interdisciplinary artist originally from Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 territory (Saskatoon, Canada), and based in Vancouver, Canada. Before receiving their MFA from Simon Fraser University, they trained as a performer, playwright, director, dramaturge, and educator. Cafferata’s practice spans a host of forms: devised creation, social practice, site-specific, mixed-reality, game design, ludology, and Pochinko clown. Cafferata is an avid trifler of digital platforms and lo-fi aesthetics, often using them in explorations of mad/disabled labour, play, interactivity, interpassivity, non-places, and hauntology. As co-Artistic Director of It’s Not A Box Theatre, they have toured performances and installations to the Prague Quadrennial, SummerWorks, and across Fringe Festivals.