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M:ST 3
Camille Turner
MISS CANADIANA: RED WHITE AND BEAUTIFUL TOUR
Dates: October 7 and 8. Continue to check our website for performance times and offsite locations.
Presented by: MST
Nature of Event: performances
Artist's site - http://www.year01.com/camille
In Camille Turner's latest performance works, she portrays Miss Canadiana, a beauty queen on an international Red White and Beautiful Tour. The piece is part of a series of live, site-specific performances in which she uses her body as a site of social investigation. Dressed in tiara, sash and gown, Turner inserts herself into public spaces and records the sometimes surprising public responses.
Like many Canadians, Camille's cultural identity has been defined through the guise of "multiculturalism", as a fetishized display of "diversity" rather than an integral part of the fabric of Canadian culture. In response, she transformed herself into Miss Canadiana, an icon that challenges assumptions about Canadian identity and normative beauty. The public takes part in this project as an integral part of the live events and video/web documentation that blurs the line between "reality" and fiction.
Camille Turner is a Toronto-based media/performance artist and cultural producer. She is a founding member of Year Zero One. She has presented her collaborative projects, community engagements, public performance and digital interventions at venues such as: Dak’art lab 2004, La Biennale de l’art Africain contemporain, Senegal and Skinning our Tools: Designing for Context and Culture at the Banff New Media Institute. Camille has completed several international residencies and is currently artist-in residence at Central Neighbourhood House, a social agency in downtown east Toronto.
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