Gary Varro

Gary Varro is a curator and visual artist based in Regina, SK. He has exhibited installations across Canada, and has appeared in numerous performance artworks over the last few decades. In 1996, he established Queer City Cinema, an organization which now presents two festivals annually: Performatorium: Festival of Queer Performance, and Queer City Cinema Film Festival. Varro’s work encompasses his interests in queer identities; public/private domains; self humiliation, spectacle and transgression; humour and pathos, endurance; and the creative process itself. Through his installations and performances, he proposes critical relationships with architectural and social spaces. Using a process of intervention, accommodation, manipulation, and modification, Varro draws attention to shifts in meaning brought about by spatial alterations, giving precedence to the perspective of the viewer and their representative role in these spaces. Within these parameters, Varro addresses notions of identity as delineated by difference, territory, and cultural histories.

Participation

2013