It’s an 8km swim from Güzelçamli, Turkey to the Greek Island of Samos. That’s 160 lengths of an Olympic sized swimming pool.

Digital workshop showing, playing online as part of the SummerWorks Lab programming.
Presented in partnership with Why Not Theatre and co-produced by Pandemic Theatre and Theatre Conspiracy, with thanks to Crow’s Theatre for previous development support.

Swim is a new creation in-development by Jivesh Parasram and Tom Arthur Davis that imagines the effects of migration on the self. Originally conceived as a performance event with a live endurance swimming audience component, Swim is being reimagined as a walking meditation/audio play for the SummerWorks Lab.

Swim was recorded and edited on the territory of the Erie, Neutral, Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Mississaugas and Anisnabek Peoples, as well as on the Unceded territory of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sto:lo people.

This project is part of Why Not’s PROVOKE stream of activities. PROVOKE projects are about creating change in our community, city and world.

Special thanks to Rumble Theatre for podcast hosting support.