Victoria Stanton

  • Performance at Poetry’zOwn

    During this evening of performed poetry, I’ll be presenting Quiet Time at the Intersection Of –, a text-based video performance about memory, relationships, and fabulation – liberally crossing fact with fiction to produce a kind of photo-album of collected pasts. Nostalgic and eerie, this visual narrative becomes a portrayal of spontaneous human encounters sitting comfortably…

  • Performance at PSi #16, Performing Publics

    Roadside Attractions makes another appearance, this time in Toronto, Ontario, as part of the annual conference Performance Studies International (PSi). The theme for the 2010 conference, Performing Publics, seemed like the perfect venue and context to present this site-specific exploration of micro-interventions in urban landscape, where filmed “flash landmarks” become the backdrop for a live…

  • Performance at OFFTA

    How do you show a transitional space? The interstices between leaving and arriving? Roadside Attractions (Redux) is an unconventional travelogue that is more interested in the journey and the acclimatization, than in the final, definitive destination. Using an expedition to Gatineau, Quebec as a point of departure, Roadside Attractions (Redux) is the culmination of a…