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The Insiders
Eastern Edge, Newfoundland 2014
This performance art piece talks to intimacy, community, trust and genderless beauty through ever morphing giant shapes that move beyond the human form into five huge amoeba like entities.
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Nest
Hemispheric Institute Encuentros
Montreal, Quebec, 2014
Nest is an interactive sculpture that is about caring for our community’s cultural producers and activists. I encouraged the cultural workers and activists at Hemispheric Institute Encuentr View fullsize
Plush
l'entreprise culturelle residency
Paris, France, 2013

This work disrupts people's day with some playful intervention. It was an interactive kinetic soft sculpture roaming the streets of Paris France - arms outstretched doling out pleasant hugs View fullsize
Floral Sleep
A plant ASMR performance, bringing nature directly into the gallery. We inviting the audience to unplug and bathe in nature while lying down on a soft floor bed. Plants begin to surround them and in the end they are partially covered wit View fullsize
SINGLE MOM VIRGIN MARY
The Hammock Residency, 2011
Short combines high camp theatre, body as sculpture and guerilla street art creating a contemporary art practise seldomly seen on the streets of Vancouver. Short will remain motionless in the blue an View fullsize
Scream Choir – collaboration with Sarah Wendt, Encuentro, Montréal, Québec 2014
The piece is comprised of a large group of people standing in the formation of a traditional choir. Instead of sung notes, they blast the public. The screamers pour out e View fullsize
The Hole-y Army, New York Dyke March
Ariel Speedwagon & Coral Short brought some community art & trans activism to this year's dyke march. Coral created 100 luscious textile holes and Ariel choreographed them to bring gender revolution into the stree View fullsize
Butterboots (Chelsea School of Art Masters Exhibition, London, 2006)
Short designed the dress and shoes for her dance performance.  The boots were made out of frozen casted butter making Short slip around on the floor while performing.
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Croning 
Eastern Edge, Newfoundland, 2014
This ritualistic  walk speaks to embracing aging and inhabiting one’s position in the community as elder. All my age, energy, wisdom and power lived within each slow intentional step. Crouched and cackling I View fullsize
Chimera
One of three ready made body extension costumes create a brand new transformative walking performance. Larger than life appendages will merge fantasy into reality nodding to ideas of playful excess and hyperbole. The extremely slow moving per View fullsize
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Sink or Swim
MAFA 2006 Chelsea School of Art
Brixton Lido, 2006
People of many genders all wore handmade swimsuits and double D falsies performing femininity through a collaborative synchronized swimming number.
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Stationary
Stationary (Club Wotever, London, 2005)
Grace Period plays a vast array of squeaky old office supplies both acoustic and electric with a looper.  Stationary is a double pun in English.  Stationary meaning office supplies and stationary mea View fullsize
Attila (Various Gigs, Europe, 2003- 2004)
Nosheen Khwaja and Coral Short played a mean kazoo in their power ballad cover band wearing classical musician outfits in contrived conventional male and female binary genders.
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Guardian
OPEN Art Festival, Beijing 2010
10 amateur performers lay together slowly interacting with each other in an ever-evolving group installation. This piece speaks about beauty, androgyny, group intimacy, and trust within my queer community. It View fullsize
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10_HOLE-Y ARMY.jpg View fullsize
IMG_6751.JPG View fullsize
FV1.jpg View fullsize
Coral Short_Floral_Sleep_ Berlin copy.jpg View fullsize
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WWKA.jpg View fullsize
19CoralShort_CryingMachine2011.jpg View fullsize
17075_339650072344_7753972_n.jpg View fullsize
lambeth ladies.jpg View fullsize
Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.11.29 AM.png View fullsize
24CoralShort_Queens2008.jpg View fullsize
14CoralShort_HomeAway2004.jpg View fullsize
21CoralShort_Heartstrings2008.jpg View fullsize
08CoralShort_Fleet(ing)2000.jpg.jpg View fullsize
Screen Shot 2022-03-14 at 10.52.53 AM.png View fullsize
The Insiders
Eastern Edge, Newfoundland 2014
This performance art piece talks to intimacy, community, trust and genderless beauty through ever morphing giant shapes that move beyond the human form into five huge amoeba like entities.
Nest
Hemispheric Institute Encuentros
Montreal, Quebec, 2014
Nest is an interactive sculpture that is about caring for our community’s cultural producers and activists. I encouraged the cultural workers and activists at Hemispheric Institute Encuentr
Plush
l'entreprise culturelle residency
Paris, France, 2013

This work disrupts people's day with some playful intervention. It was an interactive kinetic soft sculpture roaming the streets of Paris France - arms outstretched doling out pleasant hugs
Floral Sleep
A plant ASMR performance, bringing nature directly into the gallery. We inviting the audience to unplug and bathe in nature while lying down on a soft floor bed. Plants begin to surround them and in the end they are partially covered wit
SINGLE MOM VIRGIN MARY
The Hammock Residency, 2011
Short combines high camp theatre, body as sculpture and guerilla street art creating a contemporary art practise seldomly seen on the streets of Vancouver. Short will remain motionless in the blue an
Scream Choir – collaboration with Sarah Wendt, Encuentro, Montréal, Québec 2014
The piece is comprised of a large group of people standing in the formation of a traditional choir. Instead of sung notes, they blast the public. The screamers pour out e
The Hole-y Army, New York Dyke March
Ariel Speedwagon & Coral Short brought some community art & trans activism to this year's dyke march. Coral created 100 luscious textile holes and Ariel choreographed them to bring gender revolution into the stree
Butterboots (Chelsea School of Art Masters Exhibition, London, 2006)
Short designed the dress and shoes for her dance performance.  The boots were made out of frozen casted butter making Short slip around on the floor while performing.
Croning 
Eastern Edge, Newfoundland, 2014
This ritualistic  walk speaks to embracing aging and inhabiting one’s position in the community as elder. All my age, energy, wisdom and power lived within each slow intentional step. Crouched and cackling I
Chimera
One of three ready made body extension costumes create a brand new transformative walking performance. Larger than life appendages will merge fantasy into reality nodding to ideas of playful excess and hyperbole. The extremely slow moving per
Screen Shot 2022-01-30 at 6.25.48 PM.png
Screen Shot 2022-01-30 at 6.20.39 PM.png
Sink or Swim
MAFA 2006 Chelsea School of Art
Brixton Lido, 2006
People of many genders all wore handmade swimsuits and double D falsies performing femininity through a collaborative synchronized swimming number.
Stationary
Stationary (Club Wotever, London, 2005)
Grace Period plays a vast array of squeaky old office supplies both acoustic and electric with a looper.  Stationary is a double pun in English.  Stationary meaning office supplies and stationary mea
Attila (Various Gigs, Europe, 2003- 2004)
Nosheen Khwaja and Coral Short played a mean kazoo in their power ballad cover band wearing classical musician outfits in contrived conventional male and female binary genders.
Guardian
OPEN Art Festival, Beijing 2010
10 amateur performers lay together slowly interacting with each other in an ever-evolving group installation. This piece speaks about beauty, androgyny, group intimacy, and trust within my queer community. It
Screen Shot 2022-01-30 at 6.22.20 PM.png
Screen Shot 2022-01-30 at 6.24.27 PM.png
Screen Shot 2022-01-30 at 6.33.18 PM.png
Screen Shot 2022-01-30 at 6.23.30 PM.png
10_HOLE-Y ARMY.jpg
IMG_6751.JPG
FV1.jpg
Coral Short_Floral_Sleep_ Berlin copy.jpg
Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.09.11 AM.png
1497647_10152352030202345_1065232696_n.png
WWKA.jpg
19CoralShort_CryingMachine2011.jpg
17075_339650072344_7753972_n.jpg
lambeth ladies.jpg
Screen Shot 2015-01-28 at 9.11.29 AM.png
24CoralShort_Queens2008.jpg
14CoralShort_HomeAway2004.jpg
21CoralShort_Heartstrings2008.jpg
08CoralShort_Fleet(ing)2000.jpg.jpg
Screen Shot 2022-03-14 at 10.52.53 AM.png