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Dayna_McLeod

Vidéaste et artiste de performance. Née en Alberta et éduquée à Concordia, McLeod est bien connue sur la scène de performance montréalaise grâce à son costume osé de «fille castor». Ses cinq courts-métrages comiques réalisés depuis 1998 – souvent construits autour des monologues de McLeod à l’écran – firent fureur à l’international dans divers festivals queer. Le court-métrage lauréat How to Fake an Orgasm (whether you need to or not) (1999, 9) est la vidéo la plus instructive qui soit, présentant les instructions systématiques et les blagues de McLeod à travers un échange particulièrement kinétique et frappant avec l’objectif. Watching Lesbian Porn (2001, 11) lance des blagues satiriques sur les « problématiques » soulevées dans le domaine des études féministes et incorpore des éléments salaces mais coquins dont des cris, des coups et un assortiment d’accessoires.

Dayna McLeod is a video and performance artist whose work has shown internationally.

She is currently at The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University pursuing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Humanities.

Her dissertation research examines how over- 40 feminist performance artists use the body (their own or bodies-for-hire) within their practices and work in relationship to mass culture and the mainstream backdrop against which their work is always/already positioned.

 

My interests of artistic and theoretical research are in sexual identity construction, gender, feminism, anti-feminist backlash, homophobia, and media representations of sexuality, queer identity, and the female body as public property. I am also interested in copyright/copyleft and their implications on media production and remix/mashup culture. 

Over the course of my career, my art practice has drawn from a school of disciplines that have shaped my current practice and production process. Durational and in-situ performance, spoken word, cabaret and art-house performance, remix, sampling, single channel and multi-channel video, costuming, fibre-arts, craft, sculpture, installation, theatre, graphic design, animation,collage, interactivity, social media engagement, digital design, photography, non-linear narrative and effect motion graphics have all become overlapping production components and processes to my art practice. These disciplines critically and creatively influence my research, critical analysis, writing and teaching.

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