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Chipo Chipaziwa (b. 1997) is a performance artist whose practice investigates the power dynamic between performer and audience. She has received her BA in Visual Arts at the University of British Columbia in 2019. Chipaziwa has performed at Western Front (2024); The Polygon Gallery (2023); and The Surrey Art Gallery (2022). Chipaziwa is a recipient of Canada Council for the Arts’s Concept to Realization Grant (2024); The BC Art Council’s Early Career Development Grant (2023, 2022); Canada Council for the Arts’s Research and Creation Grant (2023); the City of Vancouver’s Communities and Artists Shifting Culture Grant (2023); and the City of Vancouver’s Cultural Learning and Sharing Grant (2022). Chipaziwa’s first artist book, titled My Mother My Home, was published by Archive Books in November 2024.

Catherine Lalonde Massecar has been working in the field of interdisciplinary arts for some fifteen years, as an artist-researcher and instigator of projects involving material and immaterial forms in the real world. Her proposals oscillate between collaborative artist/community creations in Montreal's Centre-Sud district (where she founded Péristyle Nomade) and experimental and infiltration projects in multiform locations (solo and with Duo Massecar-d'Orion). She holds a Master's degree in theater from UQAM, with a thesis on artistic infiltration and the fragmentation of dramaturgy in urban territory (2011). She is currently completing a doctorate in arts studies and practice (2024), focusing on the Opéra-Manœuvre to explore the paradoxical and unpredictable encounter between artistic maneuvering and the concept of opera, in order to amplify the relationship to the world. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)