Performing Elusive Acts

These bodies of work were done by students at the “Performance by Artists” 2023 Class at OCAD U in the Integrated Media Program. Each creator tackles a sense of capturing acts of resistance and belonging within spaces and ideologies in cultural and political confines. They have embodied not only the tangible self but the politics that comes with the vessel to act, move, stillness, and sound. These diverse narratives evoke the new generational struggles of what it is to exists within gender, race, existence, and kinship, while some tackle cultural flights of displacements, and others reflect on diasporic narratives that transcended duality of experiences. These chosen 17 creators not only tries to push notions of actions, sound, space, and happenings but how the documented act of archival residue becomes the platform for a voyeuristic experience for these elusive acts that maybe harder to pin down tangibly.