ALLISON PEACOCK | Expanded Practice and Theories of Nature

Using modes of choreographic practice and dance methodologies to critically engage with local spaces such as urban gardens, forests, and corporate gardens, as well as the corresponding maintenance practices.

PIERRE-MARC OUELLETTE | Corps dialectiques: esthétique de l'ambivalence

A dialectical body thought through a personal ambivalence towards the act of creation and conceptual tools from the fields of interdiciplinarity, aesthetics, art history and philosophy. A creative collaboration with visual artist Manon De Pauw in the use of a luminous device, activating formal play with shadows and a performative approach in choreography.

DANA DUGAN | Circus Body

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Circus body as a site for cultivating productive tensions and dialogues through the concept and practice of critical subjective disobedience.

EMILIE MORIN | Skype as a performative platform

 Dance, performativity, screens, Skype, domestic technologies, arepresentational, intimacy, layers/filters, voice, singularities.

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http://emiliemorin.ca/

DANIELLE GARRISON | Ethered and Tethered: a liminal space

Locating the body suspended between physical and virtual “materialities”: An aerial-hammock installation to imprint, transform, relocate, translate, and re-present movement responses between human and (in)human bodies; producing a geo/local and multitemporal tactility collection of synthetic touches.

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https://daniellegarrison.com/

LUKE SHIROCK | Resonance Machines

Sound Studies, Affect, Relational Art, Voice, Production of Subjectivity, Gender

OLIVIA MCGILCHRIST | Feminist and Post-colonial Virtual Reality

Multimedia artist and educator, engaged in questions about the representation of identity in embodied virtual space. My research-creation doctoral work investigates how VR may trouble how we portray and perform the many versions of ourselves and others, both near and far.

PAULE GILBERT

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Corporeality in relation to space and time, materiality, cycle, thresholds, systems, mapping.

SARA HANLEY |

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Contemporary dance / anthropology / sensorium / liminality

VICTORIA STANTON| Modelling Rest, Cuing Recovery

Performance Art; Pedagogy; Rest; Relational Aesthetics; Participation; Dialogic Practice; Deep Hangouts; Slow Movements; Infiltrating Non-Actions; Doing Nothing; Micro-Event; Liminal Space; Socially Engaged Art; Art-Life; Un-Artist

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https://bankofvictoria.com

https://nothingissacred.ca

APRIL MARY LYNN WHITE | Noodle

A comic self portrait coming to life, from one dimensional to three dimensional. Exploring the awkwardness, tensions, and uncertainties of being in the world.

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https://aprilmarylynn.com/

CHÉLANIE BEAUDIN-QUINTIN | Embodied techno-animism

An investigation in our increasing cohabitation with artificial agents and more precisely our animist behaviours towards those agents and the transformation of corporeality in human-machine relationships, through dance and film.

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http://www.chelanie.com/

CHRISTINE CRICRI BELLEROSE | I Dance Land

An Autotheory/Autoethnography of Multiple Somatic Dimensions Experienced in Eco-Performance: Reactivating Somatic Connection to the Land .

HOLLY TIMPENER | Queer Epicenter Transformations

I am investigating internal transformations in durational performance art and its relationship to non-binary and transgender identities. I believe it is within the embodiment of affectual transformation that queer resistance is created through performative action. 

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https://hollytimpener.wixsite.com/hollytimpener

JUANITA MARCHAND | Vocal Timbre and Perception

What assumptions do we make about people based on their voices? Through historically informed exploration of vocal production, scientific research about timbre perception, new music creation, and creative experimentation we can make space for trans, BIPOC, and disabled folx in classical singing.

JOE THIBODEAU | Selfhood and Sensation

I research the sense-of-self as a medium for understanding our connections with nonhumans and the environment.

NIK FORREST | From Experimental to Ecological

Sound as an ecological medium defies normative boundaries between self/ other/ environment as well as oppositional binary categories (inside/outside, natural /unnatural): it suits the social challenges of our current moment, including questions of gender + sexuality.

MAX HUNTER | Queer Performance Undone

Reimagining the idea of (un)gendered bodies in spaces through multidisciplinary performance.

Instagram: @annagramqueerlesque

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TRICIA ENNS | Narratives of Saint-Laurent Metro Station

A Slow Materialized Discovery of the Saint Laurent Metro Station: embodiment, walking, narratives, materiality, intimacy, slow, participatory, audiowalk, playful, papermaking, mapping

XDZUNÚM DANAE TREJO-BOLES | the rod | la vara

A series of variations (physical explorations) between the human body and the rod; rods as measures of space, extensions of the body, weaponry, points of balance, paddles, propulsors, writing tools, etc., but also in the transformations they create in individual(s). What effect do external elements have on our physical and cognitive patterns?

KELLY KEENAN | Dancing with Metaphoric Anatomies

In movement and dance training the models we use to understand our bodies become the foundations of practice profoundly shaping how we think, move with and imagine what a body can do.

christian scott | Play-based Urbanism

My research-creation practice and research encompasses cities, people, place, play, and participatory design. i explore ways in which play and playful design make cities more inclusive, accessible, just, and resilient.

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https://www.christianscott.ca/

ELENA STOODLEY | Blue-eyed soul and sound design

Singing, songwriting and production in the Blue-eyed soul genre: I compose on a loop pedal with a negro spiritual approach, and blend my passion for social justice and black liberation with my art practices.

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https://www.elenastoodley.net/

HUBERT GENDRON-BLAIS | Résonances manifestes: Music, affects & politics

A sound study on how ambient sounds can participate to the consistence of the affective communities, and how some music processes can orient the experimentation of new ways to gather in the event.

KASEY POCIUS

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Gender, environmentalism, space and improvisation through multichannel installation audio/video works & mixed media live performances: as a soloist and a prominent member of the Concordia Laptop Orchestra

MICHAEL WATTS | The Immersed Body

Looking at design and creation of movement through visual/digital art, +  the admiration of the physical body in its performative state to decontextualize the original
form + flirt with masculine identity narratives. Inspired by contemporary dance, circus, bodybuilding, and wrestling.

PETER FARBRIDGE | Theatre Generator of Culturally-Safe Spaces

 An examination of the intercultural approach of the Modern Times Stage Company. Theatre, inclusion, ethnocultural, pluralism, interculturalism, citizenship.

SHEENA BERNETT | Neurodiverse performance and perception, exploring transmodality

Research-creation doctoral work that investigates alternative and experimental approaches to creation and performance practices, with the performing arts as a site and language to facilitate neurodiverse thinking and communication.

QUINLAN GREEN | Performance-Space-Text

Engaging with avant-guard theatre-making techniques and critical race theory, using space-specific text, authentic movement, and various forms of live-art/poetry, to research the semiotics of performance. The aim is towards pragmatic representations of identity politics, via a personal subjectivity which intersects with Black and queer lenses.