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2009

Born in Kamakura, Japan, Nile Koetting is an artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Koetting works with a diverse range of media, including text, film, performance, sound, light, scenography and installation. His work is connected through the constant presence of the theme of “sensing” in a constructed sense of time and space. After completing studies in media, sound art, and performance art in Tokyo and Helsinki, Koetting became active in performance, sound and installation, and has shown across Europe, Asia and Canada.

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2017

Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi is an Iranian composer and performer. She writes for hybrid instrumental/electronic ensembles, creates electroacoustic and audiovisual works, builds instruments, and performs electronic music. She explores the unfamiliar-familiar while being motivated by how melodies unfold through time; finding ways to play with various musical thresholds and exploring musical extremes is something that she is currently attracted to. Her work experiments with merging Iranian music with the more contemporary classical music aesthetics. A cross-disciplinary artist, Koochakzadeh-Yazdi has collaborated on projects evolving around dance, film, and theater. She is the co-founder and producer of Fashion x Electronics, a collective focused on creating interdisciplinary works based on fashion and electronic music. Kimia’s work has been showcased by organizations across the globe and her work has been performed internationally at festivals including Ars Electronica, Festival Ecos Urbanos, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Sonic Matter Festival, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Sound and Music Conference, and Modulus Festival, among others. Kimia holds a BFA in Music Composition from Simon Fraser University, and is currently based in San Francisco, USA, where she is a doctoral candidate in Music Composition at Stanford University.

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2025

Zoë Kreye’s interdisciplinary art projects explore transformation, collective experience, and the disembodiment of western culture through immersive installation, performance and tactile sculptures. Combining expansive gestural lines, sensorial materials and somatic ritual processes, Kreye’s work invites viewers into a depth of feeling that signals mutual transformative capacities. Kreye’s work has been long-listed for the Sobey Art Award 2024. Recent exhibitions include: I know about lots of things I’ve never seen. And so do you., Kamloops Art Gallery (2023); Uncommon Language, Vancouver Art Gallery (2021); Art By Post, Southbank Centre London; The School of WE, Graz Austria (2021); and Person/ne, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver (2019).

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2025 2015

Nobuo Kubota is a multimedia artist born in Vancouver, BC. Much of his work is involved with installations, music, and sound. In the early 80’s Kubota was introduced to sound poetry by the legendary Four Horsemen. His vocal work is grounded in sound poetry, free jazz improvisation, and Buddhist chanting. He has been performing as a solo vocalist locally and in Europe for over 30 years. As an extension to his vocal work, he also works with visual sound poetry, exploring the strategy of "intermedia". In 2010, Kubota received a Governor General Award for his contribution to the Visual Arts.

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2011

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2007

Founded in 1993 in Los Angeles by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, La Pocha Nostra is a trans-disciplinary arts organization that provides a support network and forum for artists of various disciplines, generations and ethnic backgrounds. The organization is devoted to erasing the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, artist and spectator. La Pocha Nostra has intensely focused on the notion of collaboration across national borders, race, gender and generations as an act of radical citizen diplomacy and as a means to create “ephemeral communities” of rebel artists. Every year, La Pocha conducts a summer and a winter performance art school in which Pocha’s radical pedagogy (a performance methodology that has been developed during the last 10 years) is shared with a group of radical artists. The site for these pedagogical adventures changes every year.

Participation

2015

Cheyenne Rain LaGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ is a Nehiyaw Isko artist, from Bigstone Cree Nation. Cheyenne graduated from Emily Carr University with her BFA in Visual Arts in 2019, and has received the BMO 1st Art Regional Prize and the Moment Factory Award for her piece Nehiyaw Isko. Her work often explores the interconnection between history and the body. She works interdisciplinary; moving through instillation, video, sound, and performance art.

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2019

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2013

Rodolphe-Yves Lapointe has worked successively as a journalist, actor, screenwriter, international aid worker, translator, communication consultant, university researcher, and curator. Based in Eastern Québec since 2002, he has explored various aspects of "art actuel", such as install-action, sound poetry, geo-poetical action, and performance. The intensive use of the spoken word, nonverbal languages, and the ingenuous manipulation of props is what typically characterizes Lapointe’s performance art work which he calls "textActions". His works have been presented in different artist-run centers and festivals in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Germany, and Poland.

Participation

2011

Léa Le Bricomte is a multimedia artist working in video, photography, sculpture, installation, drawing, concerts, and performance. Born in Montbard, France, Le Bricomte graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2012), and now lives and works in Paris. She is a founding member of Alias Black Market a collective of artists who build images and settings which propose a vision of the body between desire and repulsion; members include Lucie Mercadal, Marie-Laurence Hocrelle, Lei Yang, and Marie Aerts. Much of her work is centered around questions of warfare and military iconography, this includes the use of shells, ammunition, uniforms, medals, weapons.

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Participation

2009

Thanh Le Ngoc and Hai Le Duc (Le Brothers) are identical twin brothers born in the Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, a place that serves as inspiration for much of their work. Known for their painting, performance and video work, Le Brothers have performed and exhibited locally and internationally for nearly 20 years. Their unique approach to history, identity, and the interpretation of the past fosters work that accelerates our understanding of unforgettable events by inviting the viewer to reflect deeply on both culture and custom. Their practice often explores questions around the post-war consciousness of North and South Vietnam.

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2015

Leanne Johnson is an artist, editor, educator, and publisher working under the moniker "leannej." She teaches publishing at Simon Fraser University and works as a text-based artist. Her work has appeared in books, magazines, galleries, and on the web. Over the last two decades Leanne has published a number of books, including Long­Range Forecast Variable (2002), Re­reading the Riot Act (2011), Staying Beauty (2013), Monument (2014), The Conference for Animals (2018) and Invasive Species (2019).

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My Name Is Scot works with text, installation, video, and performance to explore issues of agency, identity, and the environment. His work has been seen in exhibitions, screenings, and performances in Canada, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the United States, and Latin America. His texts have been published in The Capilano Review, danDelion, Front Magazine, Valeveil, and Geist.

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Participation

2013

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2009

Les Fermières Obsédées is a collective formed by Annie Baillargeon and Eugénie Cliche. Their performances are a crossover of several disciplines including dance, theatre, music, and visual arts. They create poetic and abstract images, drawing on concrete social positions as their sources. Their shows often resemble a living tableau; presenting multiple symbolic and metaphorical images which allude to our ever-changing world by critiquing North American mass culture and its lack of intrinsic values. Les Fermières Obsédées present parodically choreographed scores inspired by military attitudes. They employ a visual language that allies the tragic, the burlesque, the rhythmic, and the use of popular symbols. Since 2001, Les Fermières Obsédées have presented their work in various events in Canada, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, and Poland.

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Participation

2009

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2007

Louise Liliefeldt is a prolific and committed performance artist based in Toronto, ON. The hallmarks of Louise’s performances include a powerful visual style; a complex consideration of the personal, social and political issues surrounding identity; and an ongoing passion for the rigours of duration, endurance and physical resistance. Louise is best known for her visceral performance installations often inspired by classic images from popular culture, art history and the collective unconscious. She has a penchant for interdisciplinary and site-specific work, deftly weaving together various media including painting, sculpture, video projections, and sound.

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2017

Born in Singapore, Jason Lim’s repertoire encompasses ceramics, photography, video art, installation, and performance art. He has organized and created various platforms for alternative art practitioners to meet and collaborate. Lim’s performances tend to work as a series of repetitions, where the same action is varied over the course of a performance. Working from these repetitive actions, he explores binaries of stillness and action, fullness and emptiness, silence and sound, life and death. As a performance artist, Lim has been invited to present in over twenty countries, including his 2007 presentation of Just Dharma and Light Weight at the Singapore Pavilion during the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2010, he was invited to be a guest artist in the performance art collective Black Market International for their 25th anniversary tour of Poland, Germany, and Switzerland. As a ceramist, his works have been collected and commissioned by various public museums, art institutions, corporate companies, and private collections, both locally and internationally.

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2013

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Participation

2007

Leanne Lloyd is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates visual, performing, and architectural arts in an embodied research practice that has spanned over a decade.

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2007

Him Lo is a Hong Kong-born artist. His work is a quest to find the form of existence in the city. Using a range of media to express his thoughts and feelings, Lo largely focuses on painting, performance, and book illustration. Him’s performances include Invisible Mark, Running Project, Leave Me Build Me, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Running West Kowloon. He has also published three books, Two swallows (2004), My beloved (2006), and White (2008).

Participation

2011

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2007

Pancho López is a Mexican performance artist interested in everyday life and how it connects with performance. For 11 years he worked at Museo Universitario del Chopo where he organized the Performagia performance art festival. He has presented his work in China, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Spain, and Portugal.

Participation

2011

Irene Loughlin was born in the industrial, working class city of Hamilton, ON, where she spent her formative years and currently resides. She further developed her practice as an artist in Vancouver, BC, particularly in the historic Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, where she contributed to the activist and disability communities through participation in Gallery Gachet, VANDU, and the Carnegie Centre. Loughlin’s performance art works and videos have been presented nationally, including at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the Vancouver Art Gallery, and internationally, including at the Deformes Festival (Santiago, Chile) and the Performance Saga Festival BONE 11 (Bern, Switzerland). Irene performed at LIVE Biennale events for over a decade.

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2011 2005 2003 2001

Racquel de Loyola’s work addresses the issues of women, colonization, identity, migration, displacement, capitalism, and globalization. De Loyola is engaged with the international network New World Disorder and female artists group Kasibulan. She has presented performances in North America, Europe and Asia, including at the Currency Festival of Performance (New York, 2005), the 7th ASIATOPIA (Bangkok, 2005), Asia Meet Asia (Tokyo, 2006), and the Laokoon Art Festival (Germany, 2004).

Participation

2007

Manolo Lugo is a Mexican born artist and educator based in Toronto, ON. Lugo’s practice encompases performance, video, photography, and installation and often centers themes of migrancy, precarity and queerness in advanced capitalism. He has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the University of Toronto’s Art Centre, AGO’s First Thursdays, Sur Gallery (Toronto), TRANSMUTED International Festival of Performance Art (Mexico City), and Visualeyez Performance Art Festival (Edmonton). He received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University (2007) and completed a Masters of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto (2013). He has worked as a faculty in the Visual Studies Department at the University of Toronto and at OCAD University; he is currently the Digital Media Technician in the Studio Arts Program at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, as well as a specialist in Art Documentation.

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2009

Tanya Lukin Linklater originates from the Native Villages of Port Lions and Afognak in the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska. Based in Northern Ontario, Lukin Linklater’s practice encompasses performance art, choreography, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her work often centres themes of Indigenous dance, visual art lineages, weather, structures of sustenance, and embodied inquiry. Lukin Linklater’s work has been shown extensively nationally, including at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2023); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2022); Oakville Galleries (2022); and Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2022), as well an internationally in group exhibitions, including the 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2023); Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (2022); New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2020). Lukin Linklater holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University (2023), a Master’s of Education from the University of Alberta (2003), and a BA from Stanford University (1998). She is the recipient of various art awards and is a published writer; her first book of poetry, Slow Scrape, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism (2020) with a second edition published by Talonbooks (2022).

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2009

James Luna (Puyukitchum/Luiseño) was an internationally renowned performance artist, photographer, and installation artist based on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in North County San Diego, USA. With over 30 years of exhibition and performance experience Luna gave voice to Native American cultural issues, pursued innovative and versatile media within his disciplines, and charted waters for other artists to follow. Between 1975-2015, Luna had had over 41 solo exhibitions, participated in 85 group exhibitions and has performed internationally at venues that include the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and Museum of Contemporary Native Art (Santa Fe, NM). In 2005, Luna was selected as the first Sponsored Artist of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presented at the Venice Biennale’s 51st International Art Exhibition. In 2012, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

Jeneen Frei Njootli is a Vuntut Gwitchin artist living in their homelands, outside of Old Crow, YT. Their practice spans performance, photography, sound, fashion and sculpture, among other things, and often centers culturally intimate materials. They hold an MFA from the University of British Columbia, a BFA from Emily Carr University, and have learned from many mentors and elders throughout their practice.

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2015

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2009

Brian Lye is a filmmaker, artist, and educator based in the West Kootenay region of BC. He is known for his work with early cinema, special effects, and psychogeography. Lye holds an MFA from UBC (2018) and has exhibited films at a number of galleries and film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival.

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2011