Grace Salez

"Since 2006 I have been engaged in performance art with fellow performance artists in Victoria at various events at Open Space. In 2008, I participated in 3 Street Actions, funded by the City of Victoria and curated by Judith Price. Currently, since September 2010, I has been participating in, Open Action, with John Boehme, Judith Price, and Brenda Petays, a once a month performance action event at various public sites in the greater Victoria area. As a performance artist I am interested in exploring durational unscripted random situations in public or private sites/spaces. My encounters with specific sites trigger memory that intuitively leads to an interaction between site, pedestrian/spectator, and myself. My intention is to create for pedestrian/spectator and myself a time for contemplative and/or conflicted random interaction. We travel through space with scripted bodies, scripted voices, scripted assumptions — I see my actions as disruptive elements in scripted spaces that engage the pedestrian/spectator to "re consider" their position to my action/presence." – Grace Salez (2011)

Participation

2011