Writing About Performance Without Writing About Performance: The Living Archive of Sylvie Tourangeau as a Space of Commoning

I can’t write about the last performance I saw Sylvie Tourangeau do without acknowledging that I won’t really write about the performance she did. It’s not the detailed picture that interests me, nor is it (I believe) where the power of this work resides. It is in the invisibility of [...]

Écrire sur la performance sans écrire sur la performance : l’archive vivante de Sylvie Tourangeau comme espace de mise en commun

Je ne peux pas écrire sur la dernière performance de Sylvie Tourangeau que j’ai vue sans admettre que je n’écrirai pas vraiment sur la performance qu’elle a faite. Ce n’est pas le portrait détaillé qui m’intéresse, et ce n’est pas non plus (selon moi) là où réside la puissance de [...]

Informed by Ritual and Structured Through Repetition: A Brief Look at VIVA! Art action, 2023

VIVA! Art action, Montreal’s pre-eminent performance art biennial festival, re-emerged this past September with its 8th edition after a pandemic hiatus. Located in the grandiose Union Française on rue Viger (its new headquarters), the 2023 iteration hosted nearly twenty artists hailing from several regions and working in diverse approaches to [...]