Can feeling be a way of knowing? An excerpt from Lucy M. May’s new hybrid exhibition and performance conceived for an art gallery. Masterful improvisers reach into the sensory present, prying open channels between the bewildering envelope of the world and wild inner landscapes. Surrounded by visually stunning images of Wolastokuk/New Brunswick, The Conditions unfurls in part from Lucy M. May’s embodied search for a spiritual connection to their homeland whilst facing a settler-colonial lineage. Created in collaboration with dancer-filmmakers Fran Chudnoff and Ja James Britton Johnson, shadow theatre artist Maisie O’Brien, and musicians Patrick Conan and Amy Macdonald, the artists invite you to sink into the intimacy of a contained space. Beneath concrete foundations, the bedrock shifts.