Didier Morelli
Didier Morelli is our Esse mentor. Didier's mentee will benefit from a one year Premium subscription to Esse: art + opinions.
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Didier is the mentor for you, if you are interested in: art and performance history research, developing your art criticism and writing, curating exhibitions, artmaking and research-creation, praxis and other forms of hybrid, interdisciplinary work.
Didier Morelli is a curator, performance and art historian, cultural critic and visual artist. His Fonds de recherche du Québec—Société et culture (FRQSC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2025), which he held at Concordia University and the CCA, examines how second-wave feminist performances subverted urban functionalism by imagining alternate modes of embodiment in Montreal and Toronto during the 1970s.
Previously the associate editor at Espace art actuel, his writing has also been published in Art Journal, CTR: Canadian Theatre Review, C Magazine, CBC Arts, Esse Arts + Opinions, RACAR, Spirale, and TDR: The Drama Review. Morelli is the curator of the 2026 MANIF, the Quebec City Biennial, which is titled “Briser la glace / Splitting Ice,” as well as "Street Actions: Women Performing on the Streets" at Centre d'art contemporain Optica which runs until June 2026.
