Victoria Stanton

These residencies underscore the primordial role that cultivating meaningful connection plays in the creation of my place-based (in situ/in socius) works. On site (often in a location I’m visiting for the first time) the particularized encounters that unfold between myself and an/other become the foundation for emergent performative life/art works. [Feature photo: Brett McGarry]

Another version of Relationships in Residence — except here food becomes the transactional object, and invitation into a quasi-intimate life/art encounter. In these performative meals, nourishment and hospitality are intertwined, privileging a space of care through enacting a politics of giving, receiving and being received. [Feature photo: David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo]

Dying on stage is performance’s failure: a mute space where lines are forgotten and the performer crumbles. What if I die (on stage) by accident, but also on purpose (after the accident)? How can the stage be a (sacred) place where “nothing” happens except for the simple holding of space? What happens in that space…