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christine stoddard
christine is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice draws on performance art, physical theatre, dance, video installation, clown, spoken word; she has also worked as a dramaturg and performance theorist. christine is currently pursuing doctoral research on the performance of pain at the University of Manchester. She is co-founder of Vancouver-based cross-disciplinary collective Proximity Arts (Lab) (www.proximityarts.com). Recent projects include: eating a mountain of candy in CARVA (HIVE Festival, Vancouver, 2006), singing the role of Norma in The Cry Ptich Carrolls (Vancouver, 2005); witness/caretaker for Juliana Barabas in seamline (Vancouver LIVE Biennial of Performance Art, 2003 & Visualeyez: Festival of Time-Based Art, Edmonton, 2004); performer/dramaturg for The Bacchae: An Electronic Opera (PuSh Festival, Vancouver, 2005); and solo artist for installation/performance the hospital of her becoming (Visualeyez, Edmonton, 2004).
education
PhD 2010 Art History and Visual Studies, University of Manchester
MFA 2002 Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
Cert. 1995 First Year Certificate (Advanced Theatre Studies), Ecole Jacques Lecoq
BA 1994 Combined Honours English & Theatre, University of King’s College (Dalhousie)
grants & awards
2007-2010 SSHRC Doctoral Award
2006- BC Gaming Funds for Proximity Arts (Lab), Province of British Columbia
2005 Project Grant for The Cry Pitch Carrolls, Canada Council for the Arts & The City of Vancouver
2005 Artists-in-Residence with Proximity Lab, Britannia Community Centre
2001 Honourable Mention (Poetry). BC Emerging Writers Competition, Ripple Effect Press
recent performances
2006 CARVA. Live sculpture, with Proximity Arts (Lab). Performed at Hive Theatre Performance Festival
2005 The Cry Pitch Carrolls. ‘Norma’ in new music opera by Ruth Margraff. Produced by Proximity Lab
Happyland! Carnival. Carnival Sideshow to Leaky Heaven’s Bonobo, with Proximity Lab at Vancouver
International Folk Music Festival and on Campbell Ave, outside Russian Hall
The Bacchae (remount). Performer/Dramaturg. Produced by Screaming Weenies. PuSH Festival
2004 Faustian Rodeo . Original cabaret performance with Proximity Lab
the hospital of her becoming. Solo performance/installation. Visualeyez: A Festival of Time-Based Art
2003 seamline. Caretaker/witness for Julianna Barabas. 12-month project. See http://seamline.blogspot.com
2002 bone deep sleep. Performative installation with Vera Lubimova. Visualeyez Festival
selected publications & presentations
“Ruptured Flesh, Gaps in Time: Between Performance and Pain.” Collision: Interarts Practices and Research.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007 (forthcoming).
“Uneasy Masculinity: Anxious Bodies and the Performance of Pain.” (Be)longing: Art and Identity in an Age of
Anxiety. The Verge Art Series Conference. Trinity Western University. Langley, BC, 6 May. 2006.
“Dis-ease: body, art, idea.” Performative presentation. Collision Symposium. University of Victoria. Victoria, BC, 9
Sept. 2005.
"A Dirty Story." & "i quiet." Love Poems for the Media Age. Vancouver: Ripple Effect, 2001. 26-27.
affiliations
The Reading Group (Salford Restoration Office, UK)
Proximity Arts (Lab) Society (www.proximityarts.com)
Screaming Weenie Productions (www.screamingweenie.com)
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