2009-02-06T18:28:08Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Jess' newest performance piece is a raw and intimate examination of creativity and mortality in which she offers up the entirety of her collection of artistic ideas. With urgency, vulnerability and humour that marks much of her work, she focuses attention on her own artistic practice and confronts her own temporality. <BR> In development with the support of Harbourfront Centre's HATCH residency programme and the Canada Council for the Arts. Photo Credit: David Hawe 1 false false 1 2010-01-05T20:53:42Z HATCH @ Harbourfront Centre, Toronto The Rhubarb Festival, Toronto The Edgy Women Festival, Montreal 279 2009-02-06T20:43:56Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The artist performs as a functional human mirror ball, exploring physical and psychological vulnerabilities, limitations and boundaries. 2 false false 2 2009-12-10T03:29:46Z The Power Plant Power Ball, Toronto, Canada, The Performance Mix Festival, New York City, and other venues 57 2009-02-09T16:11:21Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A novel interpretation of the traditional circus clown car. 5 false false 3 2009-12-10T03:29:47Z Live performance at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Canada Video screening at 7a*11d Festival, Toronto, Canada, and other venues 8 85 2009-02-18T16:36:50Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z A continuing performance and photographic project assembling groups of friends and strangers to pose together for studio portraits. 6 false true 4 2009-12-10T03:37:16Z The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta Toronto, Canada 93 2009-02-18T16:39:02Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The artist's ear pokes through a gallery wall. She communincates with the audience by writing notes which are projected onto the opposite gallery wall. 7 false false 5 2009-12-10T03:37:16Z The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB 96 2009-02-18T16:40:39Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The artist invites audiences to taste samples of pasteurized human breast milk donated by six lactating new mothers, inviting a dialogue about this challenging and most intimate of motherhood rites. 8 false false 6 2009-12-10T03:37:19Z The Ontario College of Art & Design Professional Gallery Presented by Fado and co-presented by the Ontario College of Art & Design 9 102 2009-02-18T16:43:52Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Audiences of one are invited to have a pencil sharpened by the artist's vagina dentata for a nominal fee. 9 false false 7 2009-12-10T03:37:34Z WARC Gallery, Toronto, Canada Nieuwpoorttheater, Gent, Belgium and other venues 103 2009-02-18T16:45:30Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Reflecting on her move from New York to Toronto, the artist offers an autobiographical account of peculiar obsessions and geographical transitions in this one-hour scripted performance. 10 false false 8 2009-12-10T03:40:51Z Summerworks Festival, Toronto, Canada 106 2009-02-18T16:51:13Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Subversive bookmarks are planted in books on the shelves at megabookstores, educating consumers about the troubling business practices of megastores and encouraging them to patronize independent booksellers. There are four bookmarks in the edition, each one tailored for use in a particular kind of book. 14 false false 9 2009-12-10T03:41:01Z On-going public intervention 120 2009-02-18T16:48:25Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Clothing from the artist’s closet is tagged and then reshelved at stores of original purchase, inviting consumers to take the used items home with them. Each tag in the series addresses the consumer with a personal message. 12 false false 10 2009-12-11T18:28:35Z On-going public intervention Presented by La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, QC 10 114 2009-02-18T16:49:57Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z An interactive web-based project where users can marry the artist, customize their own wedding vows, send e-card wedding announcements and purchase presents for the bride from the artist's online gift registry. 13 false false 11 2009-12-11T18:28:35Z Web-based project Installation presented at 65 Hope Street Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 119 2009-02-18T16:46:46Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The artist is stationed as a full-service washroom attendant in women's public washrooms, on duty to attend to the needs of women using the facilities. Menus are posted inside each stall door, describing the services offered. 11 false false 12 2009-12-11T18:28:35Z The Hysteria Festival, Toronto, Canada The Kitchen, New York City The Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada 109 2009-02-18T16:52:10Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z With strings tied around nipples and faces painted on breasts, the two boobs become puppets, negotiating the complexities of their relationship in a silent movie inspired puppet show. 15 false false 13 2009-12-11T18:28:35Z Studio 303, Montreal, Canada and other venues across the US and Canada 14 265 2009-02-18T16:53:20Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z A modified dry-erase board is used in a process of creating a self-constructed body. The artist draws, erases, edits and re-draws, moving through a spectrum of emotions as she considers the lines and contours of her imagined physique. 16 false false 14 2009-12-11T18:28:35Z The Cleveland Performance Art Festival, OH and other venues in the US and Canada 13 126 2009-02-18T16:56:37Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the persona of The Mad Chef, the artist challenges the confines of role and identity, breaking through internal boundaries in discovery of uncharted territories. Live and video installments have been presented at numerous venues. At the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York, audiences are invited to paint with colored cake frosting, replicating historical masterpieces and sugar-coating arranged still lives. Cakes become canvases, to be critiqued and then eaten. 18 false false 15 2009-12-11T18:29:21Z Cleveland Performance Art Festival, OH The Jack Tilton Galley, New York City, And other venues 136 2009-02-18T16:59:21Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z A meditation on the inescapable web of lesbian community, this one-woman puppet work humorously maps our interconnected lives. 20 false false 16 2009-12-11T18:29:21Z Strange Sisters at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Canada 142 2009-02-18T16:54:37Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spirit of “Le Petomane,” the artist chews bubble gum and then blows a large, pink balloon bubble out of her ass. 17 false false 17 2009-12-11T18:29:21Z Cheap Queers, Toronto, Canada Carnal Carnival, New York City Emporium XX Festival, Gent, Belgium and other venues internationally 129 2009-02-18T16:58:10Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z In response to Ontario’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, the artist travels to New York to exercise her new rights, marrying countless men, women, pets, fire hydrants and street signs. She carried a small portable sound system, which played popular wedding songs. Over fifty ceremonies were conducted at the event. The marriage certificate states the terms of nuptials, which include that “if we bump into each other at a movie ticket line, and one of us is way up near the front of the line, we will allow the other person to sneak into the line right next to us, because that’s what married people do for each other.” 19 false false 18 2009-12-11T18:29:21Z The Kitchen Street Festival, New York City 12 139 2009-02-18T17:01:17Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This performance satirizes the use of cell phones in public spaces and the infiltration of modern technology in urban culture. Toting a giant hot pink cell phone, the artist chatters, gossips and rants her way through the city, humorously depicting this new social custom. For one presentation at the Kitchen Street Festival, the artist portrays a representative of a fictitious cell phone service provider, offering mock service contracts and distributing pink cardboard cell phones. 21 false false 19 2009-12-10T03:33:06Z The Kitchen Street Festival (NYC) and New York City Landmarks 15 147