VERB WOMAN: a discrete dictionary
18 gerunds = 18 performances for camera + Cold War subtext
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VERB WOMAN: dictionary for a conscious corpus
Process-based, research-driven performance using the body as a source of knowledge. Performed for WIA Babble/Babel Festival, Bikersteth Library, Hart House, University of Toronto.
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VERB WOMAN TV: Edmonton
During the OCCUPY Movement, Dragu created a one woman TV station. She broadcast daily video reportage of the city of Edmonton’s local OCCUPY Protest Camp, international OCCUPY footage, architectural mappings of Edmonton & live performance. Verb Woman TV culminated in a live hybrid performance & video streaming event in the gallery for both live & web audiences.
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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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VERB WOMAN: a kaleidoscopic history
Kaleidoscopic time is the moment you see your daughter’s toddler face simultaneously in her grown up visage. Or as you lift your hands from the dishwater and realize they have become your grandmothers’ hands. Verb Woman plunders verbs from her personal history of art-aktions and Alzheimer’s verbs for a durational performance with Becky Burroughs-One & Ed Johnson; Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario.
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