Modelling Rest, Cuing Recovery: Reimagining Performance Art and Pedagogy for a Post-COVID Context

Join us for Victoria Stanton’s PhD defense, a performance event guided by the inventiveness of Research-Creation. Stanton’s doctoral dissertation investigates the pedagogical (and revolutionary) role of rest, slowness, idleness, and refusal within contemporary artists’ works, specifically those working in time-based processes. In parallel it also considers the social justice implications of integrating rest in the post-secondary studio art classroom.

Providing an expanded lens through which to challenge the pervasiveness of toxic productivity and disrupt conventional understandings of how/where research happens and what comprises knowledge/ways of knowing, Stanton offers up the oral defense as a performative encounter with scholarly research.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca  

To read Stanton's complete abstract please see the PhD Oral Exam page.

Victoria Stanton

Victoria Stanton is an undisciplined performance artist whose infiltrating, relational, and performative works have been shown internationally. She is a published author, arts educator, and occasional curator. Her doctoral research-creation examining rest, idleness, slowness, refusal, dialogue, and the in-between in artistic processes received financial support through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).