Dayna McLeod

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Dayna McLeod (born 1972) is a Montreal based performance artist and video artist whose work often includes topics of feminism, queer identity, and sexuality. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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She has a Diploma in Sculpture from the Alberta College of Art and Design and an M.F.A. in Open Media from Concordia University. She is currently competing a Ph.D in Humanities at The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University. [5]

Career

A regular performer at Montreal's Kiss My Cabaret, Meow Mix, Le Boudoir, and Edgy Women Festival, McLeod's work utilizes performance-based, remix and cabaret and practices. [6] [7] [8] [9]

She has performed in ten annual editions of the Edgy Women Festival and her work has been shown internationally. [10] One of her notable works was her "cougar for a year" project, in which she dressed in animal print from June 1, 2012, to June 1, 2013. [11] [12] [13] "Cougar for a year" won La Centrale's 2014 Prix Powerhouse for her radical honesty and courage in the face of normalization in our culture. [14] Dayna has also won numerous other awards, and has received funding for video projects from the Canada Council and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Her body often figures prominently in her performances, such as Uterine Concert Hall an in-situ, sound performance where audience members were invited to listen through her uterus via stethoscope to music and soundscapes played from a speaker inserted into her vagina, [15] [16] [17] and Cougar For a Year in which she wore animal print clothing for an entire year, 24/7 to "[focus] on a public examination of the female body, especially an older woman’s body in a cultural space where this body has somehow become public property ripe for commentary". [18] [19]

McLeod is also a video maker, utilizing performance-based practices where she performs directly for the camera, often combining this technique with remix practices, such as in Ultimate SUB Ultimate DOM: Maria Von Trapp & Mary Poppins and That's Right Diana Barry- You Needed Me. [20] [21]

Works

Performance Art

Videos

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References

  1. ↑ Cowan, T.L. (Spring 2011). "Dayna McLeod's Post-nationalist Beaver and the Cabaret Phenomenology of Putting Out" . TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 25 (25): 230–239. doi:10.3138/topia.25.230 . Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Lavoie, Rébecca (2014). "Queer and Feminist Art Practices in Video Art : Post?-Identity Political Proposals". Recherches féministes. 27 (2): 171–189. doi:10.7202/1027924ar. S2CID   193990246.
  3. ↑ Gingras-Olivier, Marie-Claude (2014). "Se suivre : une volonté artistique et féministe émancipée du mythe pédagogique". Inter: Art Actuel (116): 60–63.
  4. ↑ "Dayna McLeod - Artist — Les Filles électriques". www.festivalphenomena.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
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