Sarah Buchanan works in media, politics, and climate change advocacy and is currently the Campaigns Director for Toronto Environmental Alliance. Former host of the Life After Radio podcast, Buchanan has experience in experimental sound, radio, and writing. She is currently based in Toronto, ON.

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2009

Hank Bull is an artist, curator, writer, and organizer based on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in Vancouver, BC. Born in Calgary, Bull grew up in Toronto where he became interested in art and music at an early age. After moving to Vancouver, in 1973, Hank joined Western Front, a then newly formed artist-run centre. Throughout his years of engagement in the local and international arts scenes, Bull has maintained a practice of painting, music, photography, video, sound, sculpture and shadow puppetry.

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2015 2009 2005 2001 1999

Jörn J. Burmester is a performance artist, curator and organizer based in Berlin, Germany. He came to performance art through independent theatre, followed by studies of Applied Theatre at Justus-Liebig Universität in Gießen (Germany) and the City University of New York’s Graduate Centre (USA), graduating with honours in 1995. Still mobile between genres, Burmester’s passion is performance art in all its manifestations. He has a particular interested in the use of text in performance art; relationships between the moving body, colors and spaces; and combining art and criticism. Burmester has devised and shown solo and collaborative pieces, with a variety of individuals and groups, across Europe and internationally. He has also developed and produced numerous group performances including Neo Neo DADA (2016), an extreme cabaret-style group performance featuring 16 performers from all over Europe.

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2017

Jennifer Campbell is an artist with an image-based practice who utilizes her body as a performative object in her work. Campbell has a BFA from the University of Victoria (1998) and an MFA in Photography from Concordia University (2004). She has shown her work across Canada, as well as internationally in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Campbell has taught at Concordia University and The University of Ottawa, and was the Exhibition Coordinator at Dazibao in Montréal from 2004-2007. She currently lives and works in Squamish, BC.

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2009

Jef Carnay is Filipino visual and performance artist. Since the late 1990s, Carnay has exhibited his works in local and international art galleries, museums and alternative spaces; performed at both local and international art events; and curated live art performances/happenings. He is an active member of the core committee of TutoK (artists initiative); a convener of the art event “Bulong” a night of poetry, songs and other performances; and the lead vocalist of the band “earthfishfish."

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2015

Born in Lagos, Portugal, Marcio Carvalho is a visual artist and independent art curator whose work is primarily focused on social practices of remembering and how these influence individual and collective memory of past events. Using installation, photography, video, and performance, Carvalho participates in exhibitions and festivals across Europe, Africa, and North America. He is the founder and art director of the Berlin artist-in-residence program Hotel25 and, together with Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Savvy Contemporary, he is the founder and curator of the Berlin-based performance art program CO-LAB editions. He also produces The Powers of Art, the first international television program showcasing the interstice between performing arts and paranormal activity.

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2013

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2011 2009

Daniel Chávez is a multi-mestiza of Afro/European/Cherokee/Latino (South American) heritage, and a transgender identified, multi-disciplinary artist-scholar-activist-pedagogue. Chávez’s solo performance work focuses on gendered violence in the Americas, queer Latina/o migration, trans politics, and the queer body. They have performed and presented throughout México, as well as Brazil, Greece, the Netherlands, Colombia, and Canada. They joined La Pocha Nostra as a full member in January of 2014.

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2015

Born in Quanzhou, China, Sidi Chen is a diasporic queer artist whose interdisciplinary practice addresses the relational shifts at the intersections of the body, communities, and ecologies. Sidi’s practice engages with embodied experience and models from realms of traditional knowledge and natural sciences. These forms of research act as avenues for relational mediation and attunement for the more-than-human agencies through which Chen searches for catalysts towards queer futures.

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2025

Chuyia Chia is a performance and installation artist whose work often investigates the differing effects of global warming and inflation amongst social classes. Chuyia has participated in international exhibitions, festivals, and events in more than 32 countries including China, Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, France, Belgium, Peru, Argentina, Russia, Canada, USA, Finland, Germany, Mexico, Thailand, Italy, and Cameroon. Each of Chia’s works works is different and unique as she always works site-responsively. Born in Malaysia, Chia now lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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2009

Chipo Chipaziwa is a performance artist whose practice investigates the power dynamic between performer and audience. She currently resides in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. She received her BA in Visual Arts at the University of British Columbia in 2019, and has recently performed at Art Metropole (Toronto, 2025); Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg, 2025); and Western Front (Vancouver, 2024). Chipaziwa’s first artist book, My Mother My Home, was published by Archive Books in November 2024.

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2021

Dave Chokroun is a composer and improvising musician. He has been a featured performer at Open Space (Victoria), Western Front (Vancouver), Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Calgary, and in the Vancouver Jazz Festival. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria and an MFA from Simon Fraser University. Chokroun pas performed with many bands including French for Sled Dogs, Robots on Fire, and the Sorrow and the Pity. He was also co-director of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Musical Research.

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2011

A member of the Hunkpapa Lakota Nation, Dana Claxton is a critically acclaimed filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. The recipient of numerous awards, Claxton investigates Indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual in her work. Claxton’s work has been shown extensively both nationally and internationally, and is held in a numerous collections across North America.

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2011 1999

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2009

Shannon Cochrane is a performance artist based in Toronto, ON. Cochrane is a founding member of 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art and is the Artistic Director of Fado Performance Art Centre. She has performed in a variety of venues across Canada and in over 20 countries internationally. Often using repetition and humour, Shannon’s works is largely concerned with performing the tension between process and strategy, context and perception.

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2009 2007

Loïc Connanski is a video and performance artist whose work is hard to place. Often working derisively, Connanski’s uses auto-filming techniques and takes an approach of direct uncensored opinionation. Speaking on his work, he has said: "Whenever I watch my tapes, I am satisfied with myself, not proud, just happy. I am accused of being pretentious, but when I look around me, I find it quite justified. I am a funny lucid." 
For 10 years, Connanski kept a video diary of his depravity, his distaste for political doubts about the human race, his anguish at being nothing, and his contempt for the media. Connanski lives and works in Paris, France.

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2009

Priscilla Costa is an internationally trained Bouffon artist. Costa has been practicing clowning for nearly two decades, having studied Bouffon with Massimo Agostinelli, comedy acting with Gina Bastone, and ‘babyclown’ with David MacMurray Smith. Mostly interested in improvisation, raunch culture, and the playful spirit, Costa teaches Bouffon and clowning in Vancouver, BC, where she resides.

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2007

Paul Couillard has been working as a queer artist, curator, and performance art scholar since 1985. He has created well over 300 performance works in 26 countries, often with his husband and collaborator, Ed Johnson. Paul was the Performance Art Curator for FADO (Toronto) from 1993 until 2007, and is a founding co-curator of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. His main areas of interest include site-responsiveness, building community and addressing trauma through explorations of our bodies as shared vessels of sensation, experience, knowledge and spirit. He is the editor of the monograph series Canadian Performance Art Legends, and has been a lecturer at McMaster University and the University of Toronto Scarborough.

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2021 2009 2007

Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural critic born in the UK with South Asian/British roots. His performative, usually ephemeral, artworks have been presented across Canada, in India, Europe and the USA. For over 30 years, he has also worked as an arts consultant for artists, arts organizations and institutions, as well as government agencies in Canada and abroad. In 1989-91, Chris was a consultant to the Canada Council on issues of cultural/racial equity. His work launched the formation of two critical offices – the Aboriginal Arts Office and the Equity Office that have subsequently led the way in transforming the Council from a mostly Eurocentric arts agency to one in which multiple art traditions and practices are funded. He is currently the Co-Director of Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires (Vancouver Island).

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2021

Mideo M. Cruz is a cross-disciplinary artist and organizer, based in Manila, Philippines, and Southeast Asia. His performance, media, and visual works often centre strong allegorical images of the social and class hierarchies. Mideo is a recipient of three most prestigious awards for young artists in the Philippines: the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2003), the Sungduan Grant (2003), and the Ateneo Art Award (2006). Since 1996, Cruz’s work has been exhibited widely across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

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2007

Patrick Cruz is an artist, educator, and albularyo from Quezon City, Philippines, based in Toronto, ON. In his work, Cruz considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies. Cruz employs meditation, divination and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the relational manifestations of clown philosophy, magic and the occult in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.

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2023

The Cruz Brothers are Francis Cruz and Patrick Cruz. Their collaborations consistently dealt with identity, displacement, hierarchy and mediations of the spectacle. Their work has been exhibited around Vancouver, BC, including at VIVO Media Arts Centre, Brow Gallery, and 221a Artist Run Centre.

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2011 2009

Pedro Guillèn Cuevas is an multidisciplinary artist from Veracruz, Mexico, who works in the mediums of painting, drawing, and performance art. Also known as Tecuani Chen, Cuevas’ performance art work is inspired by the shamanic traditions of Mexico. Working within the ritualistic realms of performance art, Cuevas employs the idea of moving energy in order to promote change and healing, often making objects of spiritual power as art works. He has created performances since 1994, and has exhibited in Mexico, Cuba and Canada. Cuevas carried out his schooling in Mexico and holds an MFA from the University of Carmen, Campeche, and has a BFA in painting and sculpture from University of Veracruz.

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2011

Theo Jean Cuthand’s (Plains Cree, Scottish) work often deals with issues related to Queer identity, Indigeneity, madness, Indigiqueer/Two-Spirit love and sexuality. At times his work grapples with larger issues of imminent climate change and its effects on multiply oppressed people and communities.

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2019 1999

Randy Lee Cutler is an artist, educator and writer based in Vancouver, BC. Her practice investigates the emergence of new cultural forms through an exploration of the intersections of gender, art, mysticism, science, and technology. Often working with themes of geopolitics and hospitality, Randy’s practice takes the form of walks, performance, collage, printed matter, video, and creative/critical writing. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally. She holds a PhD. in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art, London, England (1995), and works as both a Professor in the Audain Faculty of Art and as the Associate Dean for the MFA program at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

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2007

Based in Vancouver, BC, since 2007, Luciana D’Anunciacao is a Brazilian artist whose practice draws upon performance, dance, video, and installation. Giving precedence to the senses, her work examines how the world is filtered through her subjectivity and into her body. Her performances operate outside of the intellect, drawing the audience into an experience that is both personal and emotional. D’Anunciacao holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University, and has performed and exhibited in Canada, Brazil, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Poland.

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2013

Dani d’Emilia is an Italo-Brazilian performance artist and pedagogue working internationally across performance, theatre, and visual art projects. Dani is a co-founder of the immersive theatre company Living Structures (London, UK) and the multidisciplinary arts space Roundabout.lx (Lisbon, PT). Dani’s performance work focuses on searching for embodied practices of resistance and decolonisation; exploring physicality and identity as a constant process of becoming; and combining artistic strategies with discourses stemming from transfeminism, queer theory, decolonial critique and social movements. Dani began collaborating with La Pocha Nostra in 2008 and joined the troupe as a core member in 2011.

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2015

Born in Wakefield, England, Glyn Davies-Marshall is a performance and sculpture artist. Interested in scale and environment building, Glyn often develops full installations to situate his multi-modal performance works, exemplified in his long standing series Somewhere Between Wakefield and Wichita. Artist André Stitt has expressed that “Glyn Davies-Marshall is one of the great undiscovered voices of British performance art. An artist who combines a unique understanding of process combined with the manipulation of objects and materials to create strange and secretive juxtapositions of reality. His work resonates with humour and gut wrenching pathos.” Davies-Marshall has shown his work across the United Kingdom and internationally, including in Germany, Russia, and Canada. He works as a Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts and Stafford College.

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2007

Raven Davis is an Anishinaabe, multidisciplinary artist, curator, and human rights activist, from the Anishinaabek Nation, Treaty Four in Manitoba. Working in performance and media, Raven’s work address the loss of cultural knowledge and understanding around gender identity and disability.

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2019

Femke van Delft is an award-winning visual and performance artist who is based in Vancouver, BC. She has shown her work nationally in galleries in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, and internationally in San Francisco and Ireland. Van Delft has a B.Sc from the University of Alberta and a BA in English Literature from the University of Lethbridge. She also works as a professional photographer.

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2011