friends

Thank You

A huge heartfelt thank you to my communities for their enthusiasm in and interest for my utopias and distopias. I couldn’t do it without you.

video/ performance art curators/ organizers:

André Azevedo: MIX NYC
Laura Boo and Johnny Forever: Faux Pas, Montreal/ Bent, Vancouver
Bronno, Tre, Chase, Ahmed, Jordan: TRIGGER festival, Toronto
Michelle Bush: Eastern Edge, Newfoundland
Renee Castoguay: In + body, VAV Gallery, Montreal
Troy Davis and Laurence Laurence: La Semaine des Queers Radicaux
Bring Yourself Fest: Bristol
Fake Jazz: Vancouver
Ashley Fortier and Josh Valentine: Pervers/cite Montreal
Oliver Frost: Act Art, London
get bent, Manchester
Miriam Ginestier: Edgy Women, Montreal
Anne Golden: GIV, Montreal
Kate Henderson: Bildweschel Glasgow/ CCA
Onya Hogan-Finlay: La Centrale, Montreal
homoagogo, Olympia, Washington
Homocrime, London
Ingo: Club Wotever, London and El Rio, San Francisco
D.Kimm: les filles électroniques, Montreal
Karin Kroll and Christina: Bildwechsel Hamburg/ Villa Magdelena
Amy K: Deep Lez, Montreal/Vancouver
Jane Jin Kaisen: OPEN Beijing/ LA
Moynan King: Hysteria, Buddies in Bad Times
Velveeta Krisp: Signal and Noise, VIVO, Vancouver
Vanessa Kwan: FUSE Vancouver Art Gallery
Julie Matson: Ladyfest Vancouver
Jill McDermid: Grace Space, New York
musée d’art contemporain de montréal
Heidi Nagtegaal: Hammock Residency, Vancouver
Mascha Niels: Entzaubert/ Silver Future and Weltweiter Frauenkampftag, Berlin
Amy Nugent: Out on Screen, Vancouver
Nuit Blanche, Montreal
Queeruption, Amsterdam, Berlin, London
Red: SPAM NYC
Vanessa Richards: Parade of Lost Souls, Public Dreams, Vancouver
Clive Rumble: Buttcracker Cabaret, Amsterdam
Aliza Shapiro: Floating World, New Jersey
Shoreditch festival, London
Sarah Spike and Jenny Craig: GREASY GOOSE, Montreal
Annie Sprinkle/ Beth Stephens: The Purple Wedding, L.A.
Maya Seuss: Harvestworks and VENT Festival, NYC
Maiko Tanaka and Helen Reed: Double Bounce, Toronto/ Portland Art Museum
Danielle Tremblay: la galerie du nouvel-ontario, Sudbury
John Wild: Space Hijackers/Anarchecture Week London
Ian Wojtowicz: The Betweeners, SKOL Gallery, Montreal

(*some of whom I have worked with in groups as well)

collectives I have co/founded

burnout films
BYO Cabaret
Collective Itch
The Throw-ups
Women With Kitchen Appliances

performers:

Heather Acs
Jams Aguila
Alaa Al Fahad
Luna Allison
Julie Alsop
Carlo Maria Ampil*
Jordan Arsenault
Rey Asher
Sh Ayo*
Charlene Bana
Juniper Belshaw
Roberto Bello
Jesse Blanchard*
Joseè Blanchet
Brescia Birdthroat Bloodbeard*
Laura Boo
Marissa Bovert*
Kira Bratton*
Bronno and Hank
Jenstar Brockman
Kat Butler
Marc-André Casavant
Rachel Cassandra
Meagan Castle*
Milo Caven
Ana Chamgoulova
Vincent Chevalier
Felix Chuang
Tinker Coalescing
Logan A. Curley*
Ray Croy
Gaby Cryan
Lyndon Cudlitz
Mellissa Curley
Eli Darling*
Maxime De L’Isle
Ari Del Acruz
Jillian Dheri
Monique Dillon
Troy Davis*
Sunny Doyle
Kelly Escoffery*
Sam Feder
Bernardo Fernandez
Vanessa Fernando
Wesley Flash
Morag Forbes
Johnny Forever*
Lisa-Marie Froese
Sarah Fuchs*
Devo Ghost Taco*
Carly Glanzberg*
Devon Gallegos*
Jeremy Gender
Trine Mee Sook Gleerup
Julie Goolie
Lester Graydon
Lorraine Grieves

Anne Grip
Lauren Gucik
Tobi Haberstroh
K Hanley*
Asher Hartman
E. Hearte
Billy Hébert*
Bernie Howdy
Kate Huh*
Ulla Hvejsel
Tamarack Hodgins
Billy Husband*
Paige Isaac *
Jazz
Gaël Krajzman Johns*
Virginie Jourdain
Leanne Kavanagh
Susan Kennedy
Lauren Kenny
Katia
K-la
Telyn Kusalik
Bruno Laparade*
Noam Lapid
Scout LaPutain
Melissa Lareau
Laurence Laurence*
Lily Laurence
Leah Lazariuk
Oliver Lee
Rebecca Lee
Ricky Lee
Christinia Lemieux
Diana Le Nézet
Handy Levine
Kelly Lianne
Allison Little
Rodrido Llamas
Lorena Lombardi*
Liz Little
Lynne Lu
Damien Luxe*
Jenna Mackay
Kate McKinley
Ilyse Magy
Malena
Mimi Mahovlich
Ed Malappropriate*
Isaac Alexander Malmgren*
Za Mercier*
Julie Matson
Mieke
Courtney Montour
Zenobia Mumford
Mel Mundell
Heidi Nagtegaal
Sydney Neuman
Mascha Niels*
Amy Nugent

Ben Owens*
Corrine Parker
Anna Peake
Marie-Eve Perreault
Anne Petitclerc
Aleks Pichlak
Bruce P.
Penny Pick Up
Mathew Pierrot
Sheila Pizey-Allen*
Jeremy Plotkin
Marianne Plotska*
Zeesy Powers
Melanie Rainbow
Ray Ranger
Terry Ray*
Amanda Ream*
Revel Art Collective
Erin Reid*
Krys Richardson
Coco Riot
Tara Robertson
Nicole Robicheau
Ari Cymbol Rosenbaum
Amanda Ruckus
Marie-Chantal Scholl
Zachary Wager Scholl
Nikki Scott
Morgan Sea*
Kele Self
Yoshiko Shimado
Roberto Silvestri
Adrian Sinclair
Ariel Speedwagon
Spike
Esther Splett*
Renaud St. Amour*
Andrea Sterling*
Maya Suess
Andrea Summers
Tina Tew
Malene Thye-Peterson
An Thorne*
Christine Thorne*
Kika Thorne*
Jacky Vallée
James Velo
Roz Ward
Erin Ward
Wenrui
Anna White
Becca Wild*
Michelle Wouters
Huang Kai Xi
Sophie Yanow
Wang Ying
Ashley Young
Yuula
Zak

* Extra special thanks to my repeat performers! You are my chosen art family and to the thousands of wonderfully adventurous people who have spontaneously participated in my performance art events and films.

editors:

Gwen Haworth, Pete Karkut, Maplo, Travis Reeves, Veronique Soucy, Steadfast, Morgan Sea

my webpeople/ graphic designers:

André Azevedo, Tif Flowers and Neng Wu

photography:

André Azevedo, Becky Bothwick, Ingo Cando, Logan A. Curley, Ruth Clark, Michael Deguzman, Tif Flowers, Lisa Graves, Kate Henderson, Nosh Khwaja, Diana Le Nezét, Kim Maurice, Day Milman, Heidi Nagtegaal, Kristen O’Reilly, Alexis O’Hara, Ben Owens, Ronit Porat, Sara Race, Melanie Radloff, Chris Rochelle, Fenner Rumble, Julian Shendelman, Renaud St. Amour, Katie Stewart, Julie Andrée T, Morgan Sea, Veronique Soucy, Yoko Todo, Erin Ward, Tanja Tiziana

videographers:

André Azevedo, Chantal Allard, Zoe Brown, Ingo Cando, Amy K, Tobi, Anna White, Morgan Sea, Renaud St. Amour, Lynne Trepannier

support teams/ set up/ take down/ costume help:

André Azevedo, Jessie Blanchie, Val Desjardins, Jillian Deri, Audrey Ferrie, Felix Foxglove, Georgie, Lamathilde, Bridget Meagher, Heidi Nagtegaal, Amy Nugent, Ben Owens, Sarah Sharkey Pearce, Leila Pourtavaf, Amanda Ream, Jackie Rumble, Marike Seem, Amber Short, Mary Short,Teresa Sudeyko, Dig Vargas, Brecklyn Walters, Neng Wu

sound mentors:

Lamathilde and Sherry Ostapovitch

make up, hair:

Krystal Griffin, Julie Matson, Amber Short, Tina Stewart

co-curators:

Christina Bildwechsel, Micheal Deguzman, Kate Henderson, Amy K, Lapid, Steadfast, Anna White,

sponsors/ funders:

Material for the Arts/ Petit Versailles, Tennis Court, Carol’s Costume Corner, Canada Council for the Arts, The Kiss Store, Berjou’s Angels, Lace Embrace, and Eva B.

And last but not least thank you to my loving supportive parents Mary and David Short for always believing in me being me.

amazing artist friends

danielle abrams, cindy baker, lollo birgitta, terry berlier, ginger brooks takahashi, susanna cook,
charlotte cooper, shawna dempsey, anna friz, helena goldwater, her jazz noise collective, loretta hintz, anna marie ho, jody jock, soni kum, jj levine, lady lucy, sadie lune, nanna lysholt, daynarama,
allyson mitchell, megan morman, hayley newman , lazlo pearlman, l.j. roberts, textaqueen, chris vargas,
lisa vinebaum, christina zeidler.