MARGARET DRAGU
Vancouver, BC, Canada
THE LIBRARY PROJECT
Babble(Babel) Hart House, University of Toronto, WIA Projects; Feb 2014
VERB WOMAN TV/Verb Frau Television
Month of Performance Art-Berlin, Germany; May 2013; Belgrade, Serbia; June 2013
Cinevolution, New Media Lab, Cultural Building, Richmond, BC; April 2013
FOMD Lab, Latitude 53Contemporary Visual Culture, Edmonton, Alberta; October 2011
VERB WOMAN (Dance of Forgetting, Kaleidoscopic History, Unravelling Anthemic, etc)
WIA Projects Food=Need Festival, UTSC, Davenport-Perth Community Centre, Toronto, Ontario; October – November 2012
7a*11d Biennale, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, Ontario; October 2012
Performer Stammtisch Flutgraben, Month of Performance, Berlin, Germany; May 2011
Verb Woman and the Adjectives, Catalyst Art Gallery, Belfast, Ireland; May 2011
Institute of Modern & Contemporary Culture/University Westminster, London, Eng; May 2011
Western Front Dance Studio, Vancouver, BC; July 2010
Present Response, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario May 2010
CRAM Gallery, St. Catharines, Ontario, May 2010
Hamilton Artists’ Inc., Hamilton, Ontario; May 2010
Not Sent Letters Project, Sparticus Books, Vancouver, BC; February 2010
LIVE ! Biennale, VIVO, Vancouver, BC; October 2009
Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC; August 2009
Centre A Gallery, Vancouver, BC; July 2009
M. DRAGU’S MUSEUM
Euopean Centre for Culture & Debate GRAD, Belgrade, Serbia; June 2013
Performer Stammtisch, Month of Performance-Berlin, Germany; May 2013
National Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario; November 2012
YOUR KONTINENT Film, Video & New Media Festival, retrospective exhibition & performance, Richmond Cultural Centre, BC; July 2012
Emily Carr, Vancouver, BC, November 2008
Knitting Circle, Video In, Vancouver, BC, October 2006,
Douglas College Theatre, New Westminster, BC, September 2006
Emily Carr School of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC, January 2006
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, October 2004
V Tape, Toronto, Ontario, March 2004
Theatre La Chapelle, Montreal, Quebec, February 2004
MARGINALIA (Installation/Performance with Pam Hall, St. John’s, Nfld)
Studio XX Festival HTMlles, Montreal, Quebec, Nov 2010
Faucet Studio Residency, Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB; October 2008
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Sept – Nov 2008
LIVE! Biennale, grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Nov 2005
LADY JUSTICE
ROSE at Marker for Change Women’s Monument, Vancouver, BC; December 2012
Procession of Performing Circles, Cultural Olympiad, March 2010, Vancouver, BC
2010 Peace Project, Richmond Women’s Centre/Memories Thrift Store, Feb 2010
ROSE: Remember Our Sisters Everywhere, Women’s Monument, 20th Anniversary Montreal Massacre L’Ecole Polytechnique, Vancouver, BC; Dec 2009
Richmond Art Gallery (with Payday Millionaire), Richmond, BC; September 2009
Revista Sin Texto: Dia Internacional del Reloj, South American Web, August 2008
Visualeyez Festival (Gallery Latitude 53), Edmonton, Alberta, July 2008
Hive 2 Festival, Grunt Gallery & Magnetic North, Vancouver, BC, June 2008
Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, November 2007
Louise Bak’s Box Salon, The Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario, February 2007
SEXE!Action/VIVA!Art Action, Bain Ste. Michel, Montreal, Quebec, Oct 2006
NAC (Niagara Artists’ Centre), St. Catharines, Ontario, April 2006
PERFORMOLOGY REMIX – a gestural algorithm (collaboration with Tagny Duff)
Second Life performance, LIVE Biennale, Western Front/Australia, October 2007
Video Simul-cast, Western Front (Vancouver) & Studio XXX (Montreal), Jan 2004
BIKING WOMAN: (No) Refuge from Metaphor
LIVE! Biennale, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, October 2005
RISING (nuestra senora del pan)
Douglas College, New Westminster, BC, September 2006
Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, April-May 2005
Western Front (HOT SLICED), Vancouver, BC, October 2004
Galerie la Centrale (la leveure les levres), Montreal, PQ, Sept – Oct 2004
Latitude 53 (Visualeyez Performance Festival), Edmonton, Alberta, May 2004
WALKING WOMAN
Vancouver Art Gallery, Richmond Art Gallery, Translink Bus, public art sites, Sept 2003
SLITZ
Western Front, Vancouver, BC, January 2003
PIE PERFORMANCES
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, January 2003
grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, January 2003
Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, BC, November 2002
CASTING (group improvisation with Reciprocity/cité)
7a*11d Performance Art Festival, Toronto, Ontario, November 2002
THE WALL IS IN MY HEAD/ le mur est dans ma tete/ICH HABE DIE MAUER IN MEINEM KOPF/lu muro e dentra mi testa
(with ReciproCity/cité) Elle Corazon, Montreal, Quebec, October 2001
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, November 2001
LIVING ART
Cosmo Mall, Richmond, BC, November 2000
CLEANING AND LOVING (IT)
Queen’s Park/V Tape, FADO, Toronto, Ontario, July 2000
CONSCIOUS CORPUS: CORP DOMESTIQUE & CORPUS DELICIOUS
Western Front, Vancouver, BC, May 7-10, 2000
IMPROVISATION FOR X’s & O’s
(with 25 lb. of potatoes) Grunt Gallery/Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Oct.1999
(with guitarist Brian Krocher) Niagara Artists’ Centre, St. Catharines, Ont., June 1999
(with violinist Jim Munro) Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, February 1999
X’S & O’S FOR THE RITES/RIGHTS OF MAY
Richmond Cultural Centre, Richmond, BC, May Day, 1999
EINE KLEINE NACHT RADIO
Niagara Artists’ Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 1999
Artword Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, June 1999
grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, February 1999
(German Tour by Canadian Dept. of Foreign Affairs & International Trade with Hessiche Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Kunst of Germany & Cultural Dept. of Netherlands)
Moltkerei Werkstadt, Koln, Germany
darK.-Halle, Mainz, Germany
c.u.b.a., Munster, Germany
Carl Stipendium, Essen, Germany
Artis, s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, June 1998
OTZENRATH STIPENDIUM
Otzenrath Gallery of Culture & History; Otzenrath, Bonn, Germany; June 1998
A DECONSTRUCTED DOLLHOUSE/une maison de poupees en deconstruction
The @ Gallery, Vancouver, BC, April 1997
(Ontario and Quebec Tour sponsored by the Touring Office of the Canada Council)
Artword Theatre, Toronto, Ontario
Niagara Artists’ Collective, St. Catharines, Ontario
Le Lieu’s rencontre intern. d’art performance et multimedia, Quebec City, PQ, Oct.1996
SECRET KITCHEN
Richmond Public Library/Cultural Building, Richmond, BC; March 1998
Silverton Art Gallery, Silverton, BC, July 1995
Women in View Festival, Station Arts Theatre, Vancouver, BC, January 1995
New Performance Festival, Hornby Island, BC, May 1992
Festival, grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, September 1991
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, August 1990
THE BARDO GAP
Western Front, Vancouver, BC, September 1994
NINE SUITS
(collaboration with Paul Gibbons and Jim Munro)
Silverton Art Gallery, Silverton, BC, July 1995
(collaboration with Jim Munro, Bill Smith, Dana Inglis and David Lee)
Mayworks Arts Festival, Hornby Island, BC, May 1994
SLICED BREAD
(collaboration with Jim Munro, Roy Kiyooka, Bill Smith and Dana Inglis)
Mayworks Arts Festival, Hornby Island, BC, May 1993
EDAM Dance Studio, Western Front, Vancouver, BC, February 1993
SQUARE FOOT REAL/realite au metre carre (collaboration with Jim Munro)
Ontario & Quebec Tour sponsored by the Touring Office of the Canada Council
Niagara Artists’ Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, with guest artist David Prentice
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario
Oboro, Montreal, Quebec; October 1992
X’s & O’s for the Canadian Pavillion
Expo ’86, Vancouver, BC, August 1986
X’s & O’s for Friday the Thirteenth
Western Front, Vancouver, BC, November 1985
X’s & O’s in the Dead of Winter
Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta, January 1984
X’s & O’s on the Shortest Day of the Year
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Dec. 21/83
X’s & O’s on the Longest Day of the Year
Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Artworks in the Garden,
Royal Botanical Garden of Burlington, Ontario, June 21/83
JOY OF MULTIDICIPLINE
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, March 1986
Emily Carr School of Art, Vancouver, BC, November 1985
Artcite Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, December 1984
Niagara Artists’ Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, May 1984
Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, January 1984
Alberta School of Art, Calgary, Alberta, January 1984
Articule, Montreal, Quebec, November 1983
MY WIRELESS IS RUNNING
(collaboration with Colin Campbell)
Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, May-June 1984
I’M ALREADY CHANGING MY MIND
(collaboration with Colin Campbell)
Harbourfront Studio Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, June 1982
FEAR OF BLUE/angst vor blau
(collaboration with Tom Dean)
Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany, January 1983
London Art Gallery, London, Ontario, November 1982
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, October 1982
HER MAGESTY/sa majeste
(collaboration with Tom Dean)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, March 1981
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, February 1981
D.W.I. STRIKE AND PUBLIC PARADE EVENT
Queen’s Park Parade Route, Toronto, Ontario, September 1984
UNFIT FOR PARADISE
Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario, Sept. – Oct. 1983
Western Front, Vancouver, BC, September 1981
THE A.M. SHOW
(collaboration Guy Allen & Arnie Achtman)
Simon Fraser University Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Sept, 1981
Erindale Theatre (University of Toronto), March 1981
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, July 1981 and June 1980
Vehicule, Montreal, Quebec, June 1980
University of Ottawa Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario, May 1980
NO NONSENSE BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOUR
Le Groupe de la Place Royale, Ottawa, Ontario, October 1982
T.V. HERTZ
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, April 1979
(with Enrico Campana) Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Quebec, March 1979
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, March 1979
CANAJAN BURGERS
(collaboration with Enrico Campana) cross-Canada tour sponsored by the Touring Office of the Canada Council; Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; CEAC, Toronto, Ontario; Arton’s, Calgary, Alberta; Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Regina Modern Dance Works, Regina, Saskatchewan; Paula Ross Studio, Vancouver, BC; Espace Tournesol, Edmonton, Alberta, June-August 1977
33 1/3 DOUBLE LIVE: SUNSET STRIPPERS, BEAUTY & THE BEAST
(collaboration with Enrico Campana and Terry Crack)
Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto, Ontario, Jan.-March 1979
TWP Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, September 1979
The Funnel, Toronto, Ontario, March 1978
PICK UP
TWP Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, November 1976
OH TRUE OH REAL OH HELPLESS LOVE
(collaboration with Redlight Theatre)
Bathurst Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, February 1976
QUEEN OF THE SILVER BLADES
(collaboration with Susan Swan and Mary Canary)
Cinema Lumiere, Toronto, Ontario, October 1975
St. Paul’s Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, June 1975
TRY LEATHER
Fifteen Dance Lab, Toronto, Ontario, November 1975
KRESGES & WOOLYWORTHS
Fifteen Dance Lab, Toronto, Ontario, September 1975
CANADIAN FOLK DANCE
A Space, Toronto, Ontario, May 1975
FILM:
I VANT TO BE ALONE
(co-director, co-writer, choreographer & performer) also starring Jackie Burroughs, Robert des Rosiers, & Claudia Moore; Breakthrough Films/TVO/Telefilm/OFDC; half-hour, 1988
CONSERVING KINGDOM (choreographer)
Breakthrough Films/T.V. Ontario/Ontario Hydro production, 1987
MEMORIES OF PARADISE
(co-writer, choreographer, performer)
Breakthrough Films,/T.V. Ontario production, half-hour, 1985
WRITING:
SCRIBE/ANIMATOR/BLOG MISTRESS
Live! Biennale, Vancouver, BC; October 2007
Visualeyez Festival, Latitude 53 Visual Arts Centre, Edmonton, Alberta; May 2006
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
anthology of performance art by Canadian women edited by Tanya Mars & Johanna Householder, published by YYZ Books, Toronto, Ontario 2004
LIVE AT THE END OF THE CENTURY
anthology edited by Bryce Canyon, published by grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC; 1999
THIS PASSION (ESSAYS ON DANCE)
Anthology edited by Carol Anderson, published by Dance Collection Danses Press/es, 1998, Toronto, Ontario
BRINGING IT HOME (ESSAYS ON FEMINISM)
anthology ed.Brenda-Lea Brown, publ. Arsenal Pulp Press, 1996, Vancouver, B.C.
MOTHERS TALK BACK (MOMZ’ RADIO)
with Susan Swan & Sarah Sheard, publ. Coach House Press, 1991, Toronto, Ontario
REVELATIONS (ESSAYS ON STRIPTEASE & SEXUALITY)
with A.S.A. Harrison, publ. Nightwood Editions, 1989, London, Ontario
ELECTRIC STORM TALE
Herotica II Feminist Erotic Theatre Festival, Ruby Slippers Production
Station Streets Arts Centre, Vancouver, B.C., October 1995
Theatre Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, January 1996
PERIODICALS: Front Magazine, Fireweed, Parachute, Kinesis, Dance in Canada, etc.
MOMZ’ RADIO
writer/producer for 4 Part Documentary, broadcast coast-to-coast in Canada;
San Francisco, California; & Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1989-90
Selected VIDEO:
PORTALS
with Moira Simpson, Michael Turner and Emma Hendrix, DWI Production, 2013
VERB WOMAN: a discreet dictionary, DWI-DVD-publication, 2012
LADY JUSTICE AND THE EPIC BURDEN
with Moira Simpson, DWI Production, 2012
RENT DO
with Eileen Kage, Western Front/NFB, 2005
RISING – Bread Stories
Artists’ Labor/DWI Production, 2004
WALKING WOMAN
Collaboration with Lorna Boschman, Big B/DWI Production, 2004
THE LADY OF SHALLOT – A SURVEILLANCE PLAYER
Artists’ Labour Production, 2002
CLEANING AND LOVING (IT) PART ONE & TWO
FADO Production, 1999 and 2000
LIVING ART
DWI/Video In Production, 2001
CORPUS DELICIOUS
Western Front Production, 2000
A DECONSTRUCTED DOLLHOUSE
Video In/Western Front Production, 1996
BARDO GAP
collaboration with Robert Kozinuk, Western Front Production, 1995
YO SOY EINE KLEINE SHOPKEEPER
Video In/Fine Nine Series, 1992
BREATH
Western Front Production, 1985
URBAN SKILLS NUMBER FIVE
Western Front/Same Day Edit co-production, 1979
BACK UP
collaboration with Kate Craig, Western Front Production, 1978
CHOREOGRAPHER FOR THEATRE:
ILLUMINARIES
Public Dreams’ Lantern Festival, Trout Lake, Vancouver, BC, July 93/92/91
MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
co-production by Public Dreams & Grunt Gallery, Burrard Bridge Public Building, Vancouver, BC, 1991
JOE BEEF
musical written by David Fenarrio, produced by Mixed Theatre Company,
Toronto, Ontario, 1986
BAD APPLES
musical by Alan Booth & Simon Malbogat, Mixed Theatre Co., Toronto, Ont., 1984
BASS SAXOPHONE
musical by John Roby & Kate Lushington, Tarragon Back Theatre, Toronto, Ont.,1984
WAITING
musical by Elaine Carol, Mixed Theatre Co., Toronto, Ont. 1983
STRIP
musical by Theatre du P’tit Bonheur, Toronto, Ontario, 1984
AIRPORT DANCE
with Susan Macpherson, Jackie Burroughs & Ricardo Arbruet
YPT Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, 1981
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
for General Idea, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, 1975