Victoria Stanton

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…

For my exhibition in conjunction with the Prix Powerhouse, an award celebrating women-identified, mid-career artists in Montréal, I initiated a series of collaborative performances honouring people who have been crucial in helping me to cultivate my creative path and devote my life’s work to my performance art/life practice. [Feature photo: VS]