Programming
Victoria Stanton
Modelling Rest, Cuing Recovery: Reimagining Performance Art and Pedagogy
Join us for Victoria Stanton’s PhD defense, a performance event guided by the inventiveness of Research-Creation.
Performance exercise with Rose de la Riva, Diana Lukic, and Maddison Schmitt; (from the Slow Performance Lab, 2025).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.
The event is presented through the Department of Art Education at Concordia University and co-hosted by DARE-DARE artist-run centre, in Montreal.
How can you participate? Join us in person (4TH SPACE, Concordia, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.) 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.