Victoria Stanton

I’ve been invited to do a mini-presentation during Studio XX’ s Femme Branchée: Top Chrono. The concept is quite interesting: in order to determine how long we get to be “on stage” (either talking about a project or doing an actual performance) we each have to roll the dice – giving us the “time-limit” of…

Roadside Attractions makes a another appearance (!) during the 5th Annual Poetry Gabriola Festival, taking place on Gabriola Island in British Columbia. This site-specific performance has started going on tour, it would seem, and I once again plan to explore micro-interventions where filmed “flash landmarks” become the backdrop to a live performance. This time, a…

My videopoem Oilers is being shown during the annual Videopoem event, SEE THE Voice: Visible Verse 2008. This 8 minute videopoem combines a series of small, intimate, awkward interactions (between myself and a toy Hummer) along with an incisive, lively, politically charged poetic piece about our addiction to oil, written and recorded by Tinguely.