Margaret Dragu – Verb Frau TV: Desktop Performances – Day2/3
For a review of Margaret Dragu’s three-day Verb Frau TV: Desktop Performances, read Margaret Dragu: LIVE Biennale 2017 documentation documentation
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The following is the contents of this artist’s event page post, with bio/artist statement, as originally posted in the lead up to and during LIVE Biennale 2017:
Margaret Dragu (Canada)
Friday, October 6@ VIVO Media Arts Centre
VERB FRAU TV: Season 6 LIVE! Desktop Performances
= verb woman television = DIY TV = margaret dragu = making/talking performance = daily practice
Create a 1 – 3 minute performance for a desktop space the size of an 8 1/2″ X 11″ piece of paper.
Join VERB FRAU and perform your short performance in a tiny space for one of her live-stream & low-fi daily half-hour broadcasts. Desktop Performances first appeared at 7a11*d Festival 2016.
Check out VERB FRAU TV Season 5 episode 6: all day desktop performances on VIVO Channel http://www.vivomediaarts.com/verb-frau-tv-season-5-episode-6-with-all-day-all-desktop-performances/ and then create your own performance and get incredibly famous on VERB FRAU TV.
Margaret Dragu‘s 45+year oeuvre includes video, installation, web/analogue publication, and performance. Spanning relational, durational, interventionist and community-based practices, her work has been presented in galleries, museums, theatres, nightclubs, libraries, universities and site-specific venues including parks, botanical gardens, churches, subway stations, and public parade routes across Canada, USA and Europe. An innovator and pioneer in Canadian art, Dragu was the first artist in FADO Performance Art Centre’s “Canadian Performance Art Legends Series” in 2000. Dragu was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2012.
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