Audience Guide?

BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE & HEADPHONES. FULLY CHARGED.

Every audience member experiences a different version of the performance.

The performance consists of 5 questions that you will answer privately. For each question, you can choose among 7 options: observe in silence or listen to one of the six audio tracks. This means there are over 16,000 possible paths to experience the show.

You do not need to explain or justify your choices. They are entirely private. The meaning is what you make of it.

TROUBLESHOOTING

If something goes wrong with the technology or the show, the performance becomes a space for shared reflection on our dependence of technology and our openness to uncertainty.

AUDIO EXPERIENCE

An assemblage of rap, hip-hop, gospel, jazz, soca, spoken word, poetry, and archival recordings placed in conversation with one another to create new meanings and emotional resonances.

Sources include artists and thinkers such as Maya Angelou, Saul Williams, KRS-One, Little Simz, Spice, Whitney Houston, Killer Mike, Otis Redding, Mr. Soundtrackz and many others.

The result is a performance where no two audience members encounter exactly the same work. The audio becomes a mechanism for opacity: a way of preserving difference, refusing total legibility, and creating space for multiple truths to exist simultaneously.

All source materials remain the property of their respective creators and rights holders and are used here as part of an original artistic work.

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Performance Dates

Why?

What remains when transparency and legibility is no longer the goal?

As a child, Amanda became fascinated by the idea that two people could look at the same artwork and never have the same experience. Dimensions of Opacity is an attempt to celebrate that mystery rather than solve it.

This work is inspired by Édouard Glissant's concept of our collective and individual right to opacity and the idea that people do not need to be fully understood in order to be respected, connected, or valued.

Rather than pursuing a single shared narrative, Dimensions of Opacity embraces ambiguity, difference, and the beauty of private experience.

In exploring these themes, Amanda wanted to create a performance where audience agency was centred but did not rely on popular votes or chance based decision making. She was curious how she could embed individual decisions into a shared experience.

Who is the creator?

Amanda Tkaczyk is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and technologist based in Cambridge, Ontario.

Her work explores participation, technology, identity, connection, ambiguity, and collective meaning-making.

Since launching her practice in Summer 2024, her film, performance, and visual art has presented at venues inckuding: Third Shift Contemporary Arts Festival (Saint John, NB), Wheat City Nuit Blanche (Brandon, MB), and Art Gallery of Burlington. Her first solo exhibition "Would You Like To Take A Seat?" opens August 2026 at Cambridge Art Galleries.

This work was made possible through support of Ontario Arts Council and Government of Ontario. Amanda is extremely grateful to have received financial support to bring this project to reality.

Who are the artists?

Rooted in care, access, and challenging traditional notions of casting, the performers were cast via a random lottery.

Artist Biographies - Coming soon!

How does the technology work?

Privacy - We do not collect or store any of your data.

Audience App - Python Flask app used for online (internet) and offline (local network). The online option is hosted on Render.com and the offline option is served via a Raspberry Pi.

Audio Experience - The audio clips were collected and assembled into collage via FL Studio and normalized with MP3Gain.