a wake of vultures

A Wake of Vultures is an ongoing and dedicated collaboration with my best pals Nancy Tam + Daniel O’Shea. We collaborate, instigate dance parties, travel, eat, and finish each others’ sentences.

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The proper lowdown:

Formed in 2013, A Wake of Vultures (WOV) is a project-based interdisciplinary performance company. WOV is a research, development, and producing vehicle for the works of its three members: Nancy Tam (music, sound design, theatre), Daniel O’Shea (film, theatre), and Conor Wylie (theatre). We began collaborating and bonding as friends over our shared fascination in social rituals, science fiction, anime, and questions of reality and perception. We follow our idiosyncratic curiosities, blending low-brow inspirations with highfalutin ideas, creating bizarre convergences that propose hybrid visions of the future. Our work is marked by formal detachment, ritual, playful misdirection, unstable perspectives, and a blend of retro and new technologies, taking diverse forms like audio walks, performative installations, and plays. 

Switching between individual and collective project leadership, we connect with local, national, and international communities through collaboration and touring. Individually, we are freelance artists thriving inside Vancouver’s independent performance scene through fruitful and ongoing collaborations with Fight with a Stick, Theatre Replacement, Music on Main, Plastic Orchid Factory, MACHiNENOiSY, Radix Theatre, Justine Chambers, Rob Kitsos, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Toy Piano Composers, and many others. Each collaboration provides us with new methodologies, skills, and vocabularies to bring back to A Wake of Vultures. 

WOV is an ongoing, evolving collaboration bonded by an intense friendship. We eat together, we dance together, we work together. A Wake of Vultures have been presented in Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia, at SFU Woodward’s, Music on Main, The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, PSi at Stanford, California, p-bodies festival in Leipzig, Germany, and Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong.