Education
2006
M.A.F.A. (with Distinction) Performance Art, Chelsea School of Art, London, U.K.
2000
B.F.A. (with Distinction) Studio Art, Concordia, Montréal, Québec
Performances
2018
Being with Trees Series, Instagram, Internet
2017
The Awful Plastics, New West Berlin, Blurred Edges Festival, Hamburg.
Choir of Emotions, Sounds Acts, Athens, Greece
2016
ORGASM CHOIR, Queer Gala/Køpi, Hydra Soli Party, Bildwechsel/Lido, Berlin, Germany
Queeries into Collective Feminisms, Queeries collaboration, Ausland, Berlin, Germany
Scream Choir w Russell Louder, Access to Abortion Rights, International Women’s Day, P.E.I. Canada
2015
You, collaboration with Nabeela Vega, Duos, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, USA
Chimeras, Out of Site, Chicago, USA
Scream Choir, collaboration with Sarah Wendt, Art in the Open, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Laugh Choir, collaboration with Sarah Wendt, Art in the Open, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Ice Dreams, This Town is Small Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Stop Beating Yourself Up, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, B.C.
Nesting, Supercrawl, Hamilton, Ontario
Plush, Supercrawl, Hamilton, Ontario
2014
The Insiders, Plush, Croning, Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland
Nest, Encuentro, Montréal, Québec
Scream Choir, collaboration with Sarah Wendt, Encuentro, Montréal, Québec
Scream Choir, collaboration with Sarah Wendt, Sappyfest, Sackville, New Brunswick
Flânerie, Mountain Standard Time, Calgary, Alberta
Social, Food For Thought, Danspace, St. Mark’s Church, New York
Web, collaboration with Karine-Myrgianie Jean-Francois and Troy Davis, Jarry Park, Montréal, Québec
2013
Croning, Short & Sweet, Festival TransAmériques, Montréal, Québec
Woven, THEY QUEEN, littlefield, Brooklyn
Plush, Various Public Locations, Paris, Phenomena, Montréal and Nuit Blanche, Toronto
The Insiders, Museum of Vancouver, ACCM Fundraiser, Montréal, Québec
Stop Beating Yourself Up, Edgy Women, Montréal, Québec
2012
The Hole-y Army, New York Dyke March
The Hole-y Army, Toronto Dyke March
The Hole-y Army, Montréal Dyke March
The Hole-y Army, Ottawa Dyke March
2011
The Insiders, Sudblock, Berlin, MIX NYC, Brooklyn, NYC, Espace des Art, Montréal
City of Sighs, VENT Performance Art Festival, Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn
Guardian, The Floating World, New Jersey Convention Centre
Moustache Factory, Bildwechsel at Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
SINGLE MOM VIRGIN MARY, Hammock Residency, Vancouver, Canada
Present, Salacious, Montréal, Québec
2010
The Insiders, Queer Allstars, Club Wotever, El Rio, SF
Impermanence, GRACE SPACE, Brooklyn, New York
Fluidity, in + body, VAV Gallery, Montréal, Québec
Social, Theatre Mainline, Edgy Women, Montréal, Québec
The Crying Machine, TRIGGER, Toronto, Canada
Stationary, Queer Dada Cabaret, Le Festival Voix d’Amériques, Montréal, Québec
WWKA, FAAS 2, le galerie du nouvel-ontario, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Til Time Do Us Part (Platonic Marriage Marathon), La Central, Montréal, Québec
Grapeful – Greeter for Annie Sprinkle’s Wedding, L.A., USA
Mole Flanders, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA
Moustache Factory, Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C. Canada
2009
Piss-in, La semaine des Queers radicaux 09, Montréal, Québec
WWKA, Cupe Womens, Convention on Bargaining Equal Wages, Montréal, Québec
Blending In, SPAM, Brooklyn, New York
Hungry, Edgy Women Performance Art Festival, Montréal, Québec
Guardian, Edgy Women Performance Art Festival, Montréal, Québec
Blending In, TRIGGER festival, Toronto, Canada
Snowsuits, Contre le Mur, Montréal, Québec
Guardian, OPEN festival, Beijing, China
Sister, collaboration with Alexis O’Hara, Hysteria, Toronto, Canada
2008
Queens, Out on Screen Opening Gala, Celebrities , Vancouver, Canada
Hungry, Friction, OOS artist residency, Vancouver, Canada
Sisters, The Vault,OOS artist residency, Vancouver, Canada
Sexnoise, collaboration with Lamathilde, Lick, Vancouver, Canada
WWKA, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Québec
WWKA, Signal and Noise, VIVO, Vancouver, Canada
WWKA, Kitchen Certificiation of Jerome’s Kitchen, Montréal, Québec
Lesbian Winter Games, Nuit Blanche, Montréal, Québec
Guardian, GENDERALARM!, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
Stationary, Harvestworx, New York
2007
Balloons, collaboration with Nosh Khwaja, Buttkracker, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fanclub, collaboration with Luisa Jojic, Signal and Noise, VIVO, Vancouver, Canada
Downtown, collaboration with Fancy Pony, Lick, Vancouver, Canada
Fanclub, collaboration with Luisa Jojic, Ladyfest Vancouver, Canada
They Walk Among Us, Opening Gala, Celebrities, OOS, Vancouver, Canada
Moustache Factory, Tinseltown, OOS, Vancouver, Canada
You`ve Got to Move it, Move it, DEEP LEZ U-haul on Abbott Street, Vancouver, Canada
Fanclub, collaboration with Luisa Jojic, Fake Jazz, Vancouver, Canada
2006
Mole Flanders, collaboration with Jen Kovach, Signal and Noise, VIVO, Vancouver, Canada
Splashdance, collaboration with BYO Collective, The Anza, Vancouver, Canada
Robin Banks, Ch-ching! Bring Your Own Cabaret, Lick, Vancouver, Canada
Stationary, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s Newfoundland
The Ribbon Project, Wa Ha Ha Collective, Vancouver, Canada
2005
Humble Pie, Chelsea Project room, London, U.K.
Running Riot, collaboration with Sara Hart, May Day Riot, London, U.K.
Moustache Factory, Shoreditch Festival, London, U.K.
Lambeth Ladies Open, Anarchecture Week, London, U.K.
Stationary, Club Wotever, Central Station, London, U.K.
Stationary, Homocrime, London, U.K.
Darla’s Design Your Own Dish Gloves, Street Fair Show, London, U.K.
2004
Attilla, Bring Yourself Fest, Bristol, U.K
The Weekend Hairport, Tomfoolery, Glasgow, Scotland
Tape and Music for One Show, Glasgow, Scotland
Tape and Opaque Show, Tchai Ovna, Glasgow, Scotland
2003
Tape, Ladyfest Hamburg, Rote Flora, Germany
The Weekend Hairport, Ladyfest Hamburg, Germany
Tape, Govan Community Centre, Frock On, Glasgow, Scotland
The Weekend Hairport, Queeruption Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2018
IF YOU’VE GOT IT, FLAUNT IT, McIntosh Gallery, London, Canada
2017
Future Visions with Angela Gabereau, Hyperpavilion, Venice Biennale
2016
DEEP TRASH from Outer Space, London, U.K.
2015
CYNETART Festival, Future Visions, Dresden, Germany
Boxing: The Sweet Science, Stop Beating Yourself Up, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
Edgy Redux: Feminist Magic – Future Visions, collaboration with Angela Gabereau, Montréal, Québec
2014
Queer Prophecies: Future Visions, collaboration with Angela Gabereau, San Francisco, USA
Matricide: Mother, collaboration with Pippi Zornozo, School of Visual Arts, New York
De la part des vaincus: 4 films: Diamonds, swallow, The Party’s Over, Collective of Best Friends, Nantes, France
Zero Future: Les HTMlles: Future Visions, collaboration w Angela Gabereau, Montréal
DIGIT AL, Xon’s Prophecy, Crenshaw House, Richmond, Virginia
Queer Death Drive, Lesbian Hand Gestures, collaboration with Mascha Nehls, AGO, Toronto, Ontario
2013
POSITIVE ASSERTIONS, Visual AIDS, New York
Queer Objectivity, Lesbian Hand Gestures, Stamp Gallery, Maryland
2012
Hair Forever, HAIRCAKE, Tennis Court, New York
2010
In Betweeners, SKOL Gallery, Montréal, Québec
Guardian, Alice Chilton Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Emotional Relay, Images from the Trisha Project, New York
2008
I Can’t Understand What You are Saying, Double Bounce, X Space, Toronto, Canada
2006
Paperwall, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
2005
Made Up, Chelsea Project Space, London, U.K.
Armonica, 36 Craven Street, Benjamin Franklin House, London, U.K.
Butterboots, MAFA Final Show, Chelsea School of Art, London, U.K.
2004
Titillating, Tomfoolery, Glasgow, Scotland
Members Only, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Scotland.
The Interventionists, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Public Art
2015
Throning, Faerie Camp Destiny, Vermont
2014
Throning, IDA, Tennessee
2004
Home and Away, Various Bus Shelters, Glasgow, Scotland
Sail Away, Glasgow Subway Stops, Glasgow, Scotland
Sundaes, Partick Street, Glasgow, Scotland
Listening, St. George’s Square, Glasgow, Scotland
The Love Campaign, various locations Glasgow, Scotland
Screenings
2005-present
9th Biennial Queer Arts Festival (Regina), ACT ART 4 (London), Bangalore Queer Film Festival, Bandit-Mages (Bourges) Bent (Manchester), Berlin Ladyfest, Berlin Vaginale, Bimovie (Munich), British Film Institute (London), Frauenkultur (Leipzig), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow) Cineffable Film Festival (Paris), Coming Societee/ Consider the Trouble (Hong Kong), Copenhagen Queer Festival, Club Wotever (London), CROSSROADS (SF & Minneapolis), Emergency (London), E.M.P. Collective (Baltimore), Entzaubert (Berlin), Fairy Tales International Film Festival (Calgary), FEMINA (Rio de Janeiro Brazil), Frauen Film Festival (Köln) Grenoble International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Hamburg Queer Film Festival, Image+Nation (Montreal), IMPRINT (Newcastle/Manchester), Inside Out (Toronto), In/habit (Chicago), Kashish Film Festival (Mumbai), Kino Moviemento (Berlin), Le Petit Versailles, New York, Leeds Queer Film Festival, Lesbian Herstory Archives (Brooklyn) MIX Brasil, MIX Milan, MIX NYC, MIX Copenhagen, MUFF (Montreal, Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museum La Tertulia in (Colombia) NSCAD (Halifax), Operating Theatre (Amsterdam) Nuit Blache (Toronto) paranoid paradise (Leipzig) Perverscite (Montreal) Pink Apple (Zurich), Pink Screen (Brussels), Pink Panorama (Lucerne) Reel Out (Kingston) REEL Pride (Winnipeg), Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois (Montréal), San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Seoul International New Media Festival, This is What I Want (SF) TILDE: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival, Transcreen: Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, Upstairs Gallery (London) Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Video Video Zine (Chicago), VIVO (Vancouver) Vox Feminae (Zagreb Croatia), Wired Women (Studio XX Montreal), Women Make Waves, (Taipai), CIMMFest Festival (Chicago)
Curation
2017
Soft, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany
Ecosex, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany
Femmetopia with Lo Pecado, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
Queer Healing, Raumerweiterungshalle, Berlin, Germany
Queer Age with Ryan Backer, Spektrum, Berlin, Germany
Genderclear, Transcreen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
HAIR, Insel Treptow, Berlin, Germany
WITCH RAVE, Insel Treptow, Berlin, Germany
FEAST, Spektrum, Berlin, Germany
2016
Pumped, conteS/Xting SPORT, GEGEN, NGBK, Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
TRANSFORMATION, The Spektrum, Berlin, Germany
Healing, Queeristan, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Flip for Femme, Co-curation with Sadie Lune, Raumerweiterungshalle, Berlin, Germany
TRIGGER WARNING, Kleiner Salon, Berlin, Germany
Future Visions, Kleiner Salon, Berlin, Germany
MAGICK, Silver Future, Berlin Germany
PLEASURE AND PAIN, Silver Future, Berlin, Germany
WITCH RAVE, Insel Treptow, Berlin, Germany
Love is Like the Weather, Gender & Performance(s) Studies, Concordia, Montréal, Québéc
2015
Love is Like the Weather, Mix Copenhagen, Entzaubert, Transcreen, MIX NYC
2014
Future Visions, Web Based Open Curation of 100 videos, SF, National Queer Arts Festival, Les HTMlles
Turning to Night, Le Petit Versailles, Co-curation with Yvette Choy, Troy Davis, New York
Love is Like the Weather, Ok.QUOI?! Media Festival, Sackville New Brunswick
2013
Craftivism (Films, Installations and Performances) Le Petit Versailles and MIX NYC
Maplechasers II, New Canadian videos shown in Paris, Hamburg and Berlin
2012
HAIRCAKE, Co-curation with André Azevedo, Tennis Court Gallery, Brooklyn
Maplechasers II, New Canadian videos shown in Philadelphia, New York, SF
2011
Salacious: Performances, Silver Door, Montréal, Québec
Open Your Golden Gates: Shorts from the Bay. Berlin, Hamburg, and Montréal, Québec
2010
Maplechasers: Glasgow, Berlin, Hamburg, London
2009
KINO: Co-curation with Bildwechsel, Pervers/cite, Touski, Montréal, Québec
2008
Homotopia Under the Stars: Films, Pervercite, St. Emilie Skillshare, Montréal, Québec
GENDER ALARM!: Performance night, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
Deep Lez: Performance curation, Montréal, Québec
Canadian Shorts Basel, Switzerland
2006 – 2007
899 Project, monthly queer film screenings/ dance parties, The Red House, Vancouver and Revolution, Montréal, and the Operating Theatre, Amsterdam
2004
Tomfoolery(Co-curator), Wasp Studios Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Grants
2017 Video Curation Grant from Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
2014 Canada Council Travel Grant IDA Art Residency, Dowelltown, Tennessee
2011 Canada Council Travel Grant to do Bildwechsel/ Villa Magdalena Residency Program, Hamburg, Germany
2010 Canada Council Travel Grant for the OPEN Performance Art Festival in Beijing, China
2003 15,000 pounds awarded to the Cailleach Collective for feminist art/music festivals in Glasgow, Scotland
Documentary
2009 Interviewed for a documentary called The Powerhouse by Shawn Thompson
Artist Talks
2014 Utopias and Dystopias of Community Art, THINK TANK, STAG, Vancouver, Canada
2014 ART NOW, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
2014 Queering Cyberfeminism, Les HTMlles, Montréal, Québec
2013 Community Art Practice, New School, New York, USA
2012 Wired Women Salon, Studio XX, Montréal, Québec
2011 VENT Performance Art Festival, Brooklyn
2011 MFA Class in Performance Art, Concordia
2010 Theories of Identities Class, McGill University
2009 Feelings, Greasy Goose, Le Cagibi, Montréal, Québec
2008 Artist Talk, Artist in Residency, Out on Screen, VIVO, Vancouver, Canada
Artist Residencies
2018 Co-director of Hibernate, Betonest, Brandenburg, Germany
2017 Director of Hibernate, Quecke, Brandenburg, Germany
2017 Co-director of Murmurs, Betonest, Brandenburg, Germany
2016 Queeries, Ponderosa, Brandenburg, Germany
2015 Studio Li, Montréal, Québec
2014 Performance Art Residency, Eastern Edge, St. John’s Newfoundland
2014 Dirt Palace, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2014 IDA, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2013 L’Entrerprise Culturelle, Paris, France
2013 Villa Magdelena, Hamburg, Germany
2012 Le Petit Versailles/ Tennis Court, New York, USA
2011 Hammock Residency, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Villa Magdelena, Hamburg, Germany
2007 Out on Screen, Vancouver, Canada
Publications
Desiring Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press
Nest: Artist Statement, Feminine Moments, Denmark
Theory Boner, Toronto, Ontario
Other Worlds, Future Visions