It is finally upon us! After six years of steady PhD-ing, my oral defense will be taking place on November 24, 2026. A performance event guided by the inventiveness of research-creation, I will discuss my doctoral dissertation, Modelling Rest, Cuing Recovery: Reimagining Performance Art and Pedagogy for a Post-COVID Context. Investigating the pedagogical (and revolutionary) role of rest, slowness, idleness, and refusal within contemporary artists’ works (specifically those working in time-based processes), in parallel I also consider the social justice implications of integrating rest in the post-secondary studio art classroom.
Providing an expanded lens through which to challenge the pervasiveness of toxic productivity and disrupt conventional understandings of how/where research happens and what comprises knowledge/ways of knowing, I’m proposing the oral defense as a performative encounter with scholarly research.
How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
To read my complete abstract please see the PhD Oral Exam page.
Date: November 24, 2026
Time: 2 – 4:30pm
Location: 4TH SPACE, Concordia (1400 Maisonneuve Blvd W, Montreal, H3G 1M8)
Zoom link
Images: (top) Performance exercise with Rose de la Riva, Diana Lukic, and Maddison Schmitt; (bottom) Final performance with Georgia Mansey (from the Slow Performance Lab, 2025)
