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Brian Postalian (Բրայն Փոսթալյան) is an arts administrator, educator, and creator born and raised in Toronto/Tkaronto by way of Armenia, Ireland, Wales, and the Czech Republic.
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“Mending” (2009) by Margaret Dragu
This work was part of a series of pieces centered around “verb actions” developed by Margaret Dragu in collaboration with Paul Couillard. In this piece, Dragu films herself repeating the action of “mending,” overlapping the subsequent iterations to create layers of actions that slowly deteriorate and obscure with each repetition.
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Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.
In this segment of Annotating the Archives, Yasmine speaks to Margaret Dragu (@ladragu) about her performance during LIVE biennale in 2009.
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Interview filmed by Brady Marks (@furiousgreencloud) and edited by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora (@ywk). Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.
Pegah is an Interdisciplinary artist with interests in creating inter-medial performances, interactive performances, cyberformances, digital performances, multi-channel video installations, and city projects. She has been working on the notion of ‘presence‘ and ‘absence‘ in her art practice.
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Reiko Inouye is an emerging artist, curator, organizer, and settler guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the xwmə0–kwəy’əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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James Albers is an emerging artist, curator, writer, organizer, and performer based on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
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Chipo Chipaziwa was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Chipaziwa’s work addresses the duality of subjectivity and objectivity; the notion of identity and its fluidity, and the performativity of the African [female] body.
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Aerial Sunday-Cardinal is a Cree multidisciplinary artist from a small reservation in Northern Alberta. She creates conceptual art with a focus on philosophy, spirituality, the human experience, and her experience as a First Nations being.
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Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local”.
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Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural critic born in the UK with South Asian/British roots. His performative, usually ephemeral, artworks have been presented across Canada, in India, Europe and USA.
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Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Ancestor Artists. Morin’s artistic offerings can be organized around four themes: articulating Land/Knowing, articulating Indigenous Grief/Loss, articulating Community Knowing, and understanding the Creative Agency/Power of the Indigenous body.
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In addition to the Assembly preparations, LIVE has begun digging into our archives. As we’ve been gathering, labelling, assessing and creating frameworks for the future of the LIVE archives, many questions have surfaced around what it means to hold a body of performance art documentation. How can context be introduced to support the documentation of past performances? How can the archive care for and serve the artists whose documentation it holds?
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Maria Hlavajova is an organizer, researcher, educator, curator, and founding general and artistic director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (since 2000).
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Monica Narula formed Raqs Media Collective in 1992, along with Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. The word “raqs” in several languages denotes an intensification of awareness and presence attained by whirling, turning, being in a state of revolution.
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Paul Couillard has been working as a queer artist, curator, and performance art scholar since 1985. He has created well over 300 performance works in 26 countries, often with his husband and collaborator, Ed Johnson.
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Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker is a curator and former Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Biennale of Sydney, Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum Villa Stuck Munich, and Frye Art Museum Seattle.
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Dave Beech is an artist and writer. His solo art practice revisits the critical traditions of photomontage and factography through the Marxist concept of uneven and combined development.
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Irit Rogoff is a writer, teacher, curator, and organizer working at the intersection of contemporary art, critical theory, and emergent political manifestations. Her practice deals with geography, globalization, and contemporary participatory practices in the expanded field of art.
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Snežana Golubović is an artist and writer. Her works have been shown internationally at, among others: Van Gogh Museum /
Amsterdam, Avignon Theatre Festival, Venice Biennale, as well as at numerous exhibitions
and performance art festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America.
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Daina Warren is from the Akamihk (Cree) Nation in Maskwacis (Bear Hills), AB. She was awarded two Canada Council’s Aboriginal Curatorial Residencies the first to work with grunt gallery, Vancouver BC (2000-2001) and a second residency at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario (2010-2011).
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