LADY JUSTICE: pillowbook
LADY JUSTICE channels the spirit of Mary Magdalene for a performance about AIDS/HIV, fear and intimacy; VIVA! Performance Festival, Montreal.
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NUESTRA SENORA DEL PAN: rising (Montreal)
Dragu’s month long durational performances celebrated the peasant with daily bread making and public feeding in a high tech urban landscape while exploring notions of generosity, charity and equality. The final evening performance combined bread, flags, prostitution and Leonard Cohen while venturing from the gallery to the romantic rain-slicked streets of Montreal; Mois de la Performance, Powerhouse la Centrale, Montreal.
photos: Sandra Lynn Belanger and Marie-Andree Rho
LADY JUSTICE: sets her sights/cites on Edmonton
The public made appointments to take Lady Justice to sights/cites of justice/injustice for a private ritual performance by Lady J. This culminated in a participatory performance in the gallery at the end of Latitude 53 VISUALEYEZ festival.
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LADY JUSTICE: goes buzz buzz
3-hour durational performance about shared notions of justice, revenge & tolerance thru the lens of the social justice phenomena of celebrity-as-shaman; Hive2 Festivial, Vancouver; with Jeremy Todd as Fernando del Rey and Dragu as Lady Justice.
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VERB WOMAN: the wall is in my head/a dance of forgetting
Dragu’s first solo exhibition included 2 channel video installation, repertoire cinema, and interactive archive/research web stations; curated by Nan Capogna for Richmond Art Gallery,
Exploring conflict and forgetting within public and private contexts, Dragu’s lens focuses on footage from Berlin and Belfast as well as documentation from her 2009-2011 performances of VERB WOMAN: a dance of forgetting(dedicated to her mother who had Alzheimer’s Disease); in context of creating an interactive data base researching chance operation and improvisation.
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VERB WOMAN at 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art Toronto
After a morning yoga class, Dragu created a daily performance art workshop combining gestures, movement, voice, objects and materials to explore a “daily verb aktion” and then posted on Facebook.
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VERB WOMAN: spatial profiling for Mayworks
Video simulcast of live performances by Dragu & Francisco-Fernando Granados who borrowed a Dragu performance gesture from a photo he saw in an art magazine of her 1999 performance EINE KLEIN NACHT RADIO. For four years, Francisco performed Spatial Profiling as a site-specific durational drawing aktion. They two re-untied for a work exploring issues of rupture, displacement, immigration and memory.
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