The
Department
of
Fine
Arts
would
like
to
invite
you
to
join
us
on
Tuesday
October
25 at
12:30pm
for
our
Artist
Talk Series
featuring
Paul
Couillard.
The
talk
will
be
a
hybrid format
with
the
in-person
talk
in
East
Campus
Hall
1219
also
available
online
at https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/93716320869?pwd=by85Y1FJd2NSYWZ3WS9GVHRXTTVyZz09.
Paul
Couillard
has
been
working
as
a
queer
performance
artist,
curator,
and
performance
art
scholar
for
over
30
years.
He
has
created
more
than
300
solo
and
collaborative
performance
works
in
26
countries,
often
working
with
his
partner
Ed
Johnson.
Their
Duorama
series
explores
notions
of
relationship
from
an
askance
perspective.
Paul's
solo
practice
focuses
on
duration
and
the
effects
of
time,
site-responsiveness,
building
community,
and
addressing
trauma
through
explorations
of
our
bodies
as
shared
vessels
of
sensation,
experience,
knowledge
and
spirit.
He
is
a
cofounder
of
FADO
Performance
Art
Centre
and
the
7a*11d
International
Festival
of
Performance
Art,
both
based
in
Toronto,
and
the
editor
of
the
book
series
Canadian
Performance
Art
Legends.
He
has
been
a
lecturer
at
McMaster
University
and
the
University
of
Toronto
Scarborough,
and
holds
a
doctorate
from
the
York/Ryerson
Joint
Graduate
Program
in
Communication
and
Culture.
Image
credit: Paul
Couillard. Screen
shot
from
the
experience
of
memory
is
the
making
of
experience
(6
hr.
Zoom
performance),
Intergenerational
LGBT
Artist
Residency,
2020
