The exhibition presents work resulting from or inducing the action of performance, either as text, documentation, or objects. All works are selected from private collections from across Canada, furthering the element of the ongoing, intimate performance of living with works of contemporary art. In this way, the exhibition explores the sensual awareness of viewership, the echoing of the object in the body. The investigation, presented here through a selection of works, draw from the artist’s own interest in performance, spectatorship, and durational viewing. The pieces themselves draw upon the…
Cynthia Daignault, Liz Magor, Janet Werner, Judy Radul, Jana Sterbak, Germaine Koh, Valérie Blass, Sharon Hayes, Annette Kelm, Joyce Wieland, Jenine Marsh, Maria Hupfield