APishKweShiMon is a beautiful birthing story of resilience, as well as the sequel to PLACEnta (2012), a short documentary about finding the appropriate place for a placenta ceremony. The placenta ceremony is a sacred rite, and was performed after each birth of every Cree child many years ago. Sadly, our ceremonies and ways of… ⊕

Ethnic Roots is a parody of film noir and youtube tutorial. Rah's character Oreo performs a femme fatale character that shifts between the past and present. Oreo's racial drag is a playful performance that critiques racial purity and authenticity. “The embrace of the imagination has always specific political… ⊕

I’M FULL OF MYSELF is a period piece located in the televisual era in the year 1992. Life coaching first appeared in the pre-digital, analog period of the late 1980s and early 1990s in response to a rapidly developing technological society and a resulting social anxiety. For this project, I created and performed an… ⊕

End Game is a rumination on dualistic thinking as pitfall of the human condition—metaphorically situated in both personal conflict within the self and interpersonal conflict between groups of people from a socio-political standpoint. In a single-channel video installation, good and evil, us and them, brawn and beauty, and… ⊕

Eighteen years and 57 seconds is a hand-painted, time lapse animated meditation on the life of a Toronto street corner and the moments surrounding the brutal death of a vulnerable youth. Sammy Yatim was a teenager I crisis, shot 9 times by an individual trusted to serve and protect. Although the police officer at the forefront… ⊕

2 2 2 2 2 is a lettrist video poem involving combinations and re-combinations of five frequently used English language two letter words. A sequence of all five words is presented against various coloured backgrounds with the text also utilizing various contrasting colours. Between each tableau there is a pixilated dissolve,… ⊕

Butterfly Monument documents the creation a public memorial dedicated to the late Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree education advocate from Attawapiskat First Nation, Moskekowok territory. Through personal stories shared by Shannen’s immediate family we learn about who Shannen was and what motivated her passionate crusade… ⊕

VERB FRAU TV Season 5: The 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art (2016)VERB FRAU’s daily live web-streaming broadcasts from 7a*11d Festival in October 2016 are now edited and ready for your video-podcast viewing pleasure on VIVO Channel and iTunes.For those not easily bored and who enjoy that real time durational thing, all… ⊕

VERB FRAU Season 4: Poland Episode: Introduction 23:03I confess to an obsession with Polish Performance Art. It is so intense. It is so – Polish! I began with a hypothesis that Polish performance art’s development was strongly influenced by Tadeusz Kantor http://culture.pl/en/artist/tadeusz-kantor and Jerzy… ⊕

VERB FRAU TV Season 4: DAILY WEB episodes 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d Berlin & KrakowVERB FRAU TV Season 4 ep 1 Berlin 1:20Verb Frau reports on 23.09.2015, Berlin | The project "Capturing Dance – Dance Documentation as Artistic Practice" for the first time puts an artistic and therefore new focus on dance… ⊕

VERB FRAU TV Season 3: LIVE! 2015 Performance Festival Vancouver (final) episodes1. VERB FRAU TV Season 3 (Final) ep “Best of Daily LIVE! Views” 4:52Verb Frau asks LIVE! festival artists and public how are they eating, sleeping, what they carry with them while travelling, while offering daily yoga… ⊕

VERB FRAU TV Season 3 Daily Web Episodes 1 -11 LIVE! Biennale Performance Festival 2015 Vancouver, BCDaily VERB FRAU TV postings for LIVE! Biennale Festival artists and public as well as international artists/viewers through LIVE! web site and social platforms. VERB FRAU enquires into the care, feeding, health and other… ⊕

VERB FRAU TV SEASON 2 Episodes 1 - 4Episode 1: Performance and … 17:16International artists each discuss a separate topic of importance to their individual performance art practice at Grüntaler 9 Gallery during Month of Performance Art - Berlin Festival May 2015Episode 2: Performance Switcheroo 7:03Verb Frau and KBB… ⊕

VERB FRAU TELEVISION Season 1 episodes 1 - 141. VERB FRAU TV Episode 1 with Jörn Burmester 27:28Very first in the live broadcast tv series, and Jörn is late and hung over as the night previous was opening of May Month of Performance Art Festival in Berlin. Verb Frau performs live art-aktions, plays her first… ⊕

Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me Paradise) is a science fiction documentary that uses the backdrop of Hong Kong and the various ways in which the Filipina migrant worker occupies Central on Sundays. The film is narrated from the perspective of Paraiso, a ghost played by a drone who speaks of the isolation from being… ⊕

This documentary recounts the life and work of Canadian artist Ava Zarr. Predominantly active in the 1960s, Zarr was a key figure in the rise and development of video and performance art, and her work was a precursor to that of eminent artists such as Carolee Schneemann, Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, and Marina Abramovic.Although… ⊕

Commissioned by Itau Cultural Institute, this video by Kika Nicolela draws inspiration from rituals and celebrations of Candomble (African-Brazilian religion). These rituals involve the possession of the initiated by Orishas (gods); music and dance are essential to induce the trance that allows the god to enter the possessed… ⊕

“Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, small wisdom.” - Chinese Proverb Using the lint balls gathered from family member’s clothing for over a year, this video springs from reflections on the invention of new languages and vocabularies.

“Making a thousand decisions, even the wise will make a mistake.” - Chinese Proverb Using family members’ meals before they arrive the table, this video is one morning’s celebration of the unanswerable.

A sweet coming-of-middle-age sex documentary...From celibate teenage bible thumper to post-teen lesbian, Skyler, now trans masculine and nearing middle age, feels he missed out on something during his youth. Sex. Not the queer kind he's been having throughout his 20's and 30's. Something a bit more.... standard shall we… ⊕

If it was your tit's last day on earth, what would they do?Tit Star Showboy is wrapping up his career as a tit flasher, and is offering one last round of private viewings in his trailer, just days before his top surgery. The queers have all come flocking to see the show, and in their anticipation, a power struggle develops over… ⊕

She has a story to tell, with the chicken as witness. Using black humor, a sharp monologue and displaced feminine stereotypes, THE CHICKEN AND HER dives deeply into the difficult issues such as sexual abuse and violence against women. This film is part of DOLLHOUSE, a multi-disciplinary collaboration project between Manon fait… ⊕

'Biographies' produces a complex narrative that departs from a historical research about a strong female historical character, and mixes it with personal stories from the 5 actresses portraying her. Domitila de Castro do Canto e Melo, the Marquise of Santos, is one of the most famous and controversial historical figures from… ⊕

MEANTIME was shot in the empty space of the old building of the Jewish Museum of Belgium which awaits for its destruction. This building is loaded with a heavy history: first a mansion then school, it was later occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War – who used the cell where the video was shot as a prison. More… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”. Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists’ game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten… ⊕

TIDELANDS focuses on the distinctive people and landscape of Daebu-island, located in South Korea. It shows men and women from its fishing community sharing their memories related to the sea and the islands before the construction of the Sihwa Wall. This wall - the longest tide embankment in Asia – and the homonymous… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among artists from various parts of the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the "Exquisite Corpse". Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists' game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration among artists from all over the world, inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the “Exquisite Corpse”. Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists’ game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse". In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse".In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own… ⊕

In her work Chan explores Internet fetish communities. Her focus is on the tension between mediated sexual fantasies and corporeal desires. She contains her findings in creative gestures, through which she strives for a better understanding of complex motivations and power structures. Young Money is about the interconnected… ⊕

A film score composer is distracted by a haunted video monitor.

Todd washes windows on tall buildings. He describes the procedure and talks about his background in sailing and climbing trees as a kid.

Dragu invited a registered nurse and a series of artists to learn “how to bathe a senior” from viewing a video of the previous bath giver, echoing the process of decay, memory loss (intentional, unintentional, subconscious). This process was also a way of instilling muscle memory about the comfort of being touched… ⊕

Balance Dance is a duet with Michelle Lui, a healthy 24 year old dancer, tied and/or burdened with objects to “equalize” her range of motion and centre of gravity to Dragu’s own 63 year old arthritic body. Lui’s and Dragu’s movement exploration and research of balance tests by kinesiologists was… ⊕

25th Anniversary of L'Ecole Polytechnique, Marker for Change in Thornton Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada; a commemorative art-aktion to protest violence against women and children everywhere

1345 Morningside Avenue, a Scarborough strip mall, has been listed for sale. Two parties are bidding for the property, eager to transform the existing units into a single large-scale business. The bidders are Luong Coyota & Lynxus, a booming car dealership established by business mogul Alvin Luong, and Dizdar Projects, a… ⊕

Toronto socialite Kimberly confronts the underpinnings of her addiction to oxycodone as well as a co-dependent and precarious relationship to her boyfriend Derek. Before leaving on a "business trip", Derek presents Kimberly with an ultimatum: to seek therapy for her troubled life or face the reality of a breakup. This… ⊕