Victoria Stanton

The listening sessions brought folks together to spend quality time listening to music. In the space of a white cube, staring at a blank wall in unison, I was curious to explore how such an invitation for being together could potentially create meaningful connections among acquaintances, but especially among “strangers.”  [Feature photo: Jessica Hébert]

Underscoring parallels between performance and travel (how the liminal circulates in both), over several residencies I turned my arrival process into an art project: documenting public “micro-actions” edited into a video-loop that accompanied live performance as a way to meaningfully connect with, and ground into, a new place. [Feature photo: Christian Richer]

The (Being) One Thing at a Time series proposed to open up a dialogue between the body and the spaces it traverses. Responding to public sites in Montreal, Ottawa and St. John’s, artists and non-artists alike co-created contemporary living tableaux vivants via meditative actions-as-subtle-interpolations into the built environment.  [Feature photo: Aaron McKenzie Fraser]