I am a middle-aging queer performance-based media artist. I am a Settler Canadian who has lived in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal/Montreal for the past 20+ years. I am a current Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow (2023-2025), and past Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture research-creation postdoctoral fellow (2021-2023).
My work uses humour, and capitalizes on exploiting the body’s social and material conditions using cabaret, duration, remix, video, and installation practices. My interests of artistic and theoretical research are in media representations of sexuality, queer identity, and how bodies marked female are perceived as public property. I am also interested in how these modes of representation intersect with middle-aging, since this is where I’m at in my life course.
I have more than 30 single channel videos in distribution, which have screened worldwide hundreds of times accumulatively, and I have staged over 3-dozen independent performance art works and cabarets, locally, nationally, and internationally. My work has been presented at the Summerworks Theatre Festival in Toronto, the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, the Abrons Art Center in NYC, Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in Montreal, the Impakt Festival in Utrecht Netherlands, the Mardi Gras Festival in Darlinghurst Australia, MIX Brasil Festival Of Sexual Diversity in São Paulo Brazil, the Modern Art Museum in Warsaw Poland, the City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts in Ljubljana Slovenija, and Le Centre d’art contemporain in Paris. I have received research and development, production, and travel funding from the Canada Council and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. I have won numerous awards, including Le Prix Powerhouse from La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse in 2014 that celebrates mid-career women artists who have significantly contributed to the cultural life of Montréal, various Audience Choice Awards at film and video festivals like the Prix du Public in the Experimental category at Cineffable, Festival International du film Lesbian et Feminist de Paris in 2019, and Best Video Essay mentions from the British Film Institute in 2021 and 2022.
I earned a PhD from the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University in 2020. My interdisciplinary Humanities dissertation combines studies in performance art, feminism, queer theory, age, and research-creation, and centres my art practice.
AWARDS (Selected: 2010-present)
2023-25 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
2021-23 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)
2022 The best video essays of 2022 for “So I didn’t sleep very well last night,” British Film Institute
2022 The best video essays of 2022 for “Wild at Heterosexuality,” British Film Institute
2021 The best video essays of 2021 for “How to Perform Teaching During a Pandemic Spring Session, 2020: GENDER STUDIES, Rain & Cats Cut,” British Film Institute
2021 The best video essays of 2021 for “Outside the Lines,” British Film Institute
2021 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)
2020 Canada Council Digital Originals Grant
2019 “Experimental” Prix du Public, “I Live for Menopause,” Cineffable, Festival International du film Lesbian et Feminist de Paris, France
2016 ACAD Alumni Honour Award, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB
2014 Le Prix Powerhouse, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, QC
2013 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)
2012 Concordia University Graduate Fellowship, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2010 Audience Choice Award, “Teabagging and Other Beauty Secrets,” Reel Pride Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2010 Audience Choice Award, Best Short Film, “Ultimate SUB Ultimate DOM,” Reelout Queer Film Festival, Kingston, Ontario
RESIDENCIES (Selected: 2010-present)
2022 The Sociability of Sleep Artist Residency, Montréal, QC
2021-22 P. Lantz Artist in Residence, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montréal, QC
2020 PHI Parallel Lines Residency (virtual), PHI Centre, Montréal, QC
2018 Media@McGill Artist in Residence, Studio XX Montréal, QC
2012 The Independent Imaging Retreat “Film Farm”, Mount Forest, ON
2008 Edgy Women Festival, to workshop and produce episodes 3 and 4 of Hot Hot Gossip, Montreal, PQ
VIDEO DISTRIBUTORS
Groupe Intervention Video, Montréal
V-Tape, Toronto
Video Out, Vancouver