Victoria Stanton

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 performance-making. An intergenerational event (from the perspective of both the presenting artists and the audiences), the festival drew record-breaking numbers over its four-day tenure. …Read complete article here. Featured image: Louise Liliefeldt, Crossing Path, (2023); photo by Paul Litherland.