Christine Carson

© Christine Carson, Numb/Hum: A Subterranean Metropolitan Opera, 2000. Photo Paul Couillard.

Canada

Christine Carson is a Toronto-based artist who creates event-based aural and physical environments. Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Christine Carson is a Fine Arts graduate of Concordia University. Her work has been exhibited primarily in Québec and Toronto. An earlier version of Numb/Hum: A Subterranean Metropolitan Opera was presented in Edmonton in 2000 as part of the first VisualEyez Performance Festival.

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Performance
Numb/Hum: A Subterranean Metropolitan Opera by Christine Carson

Toronto subway commuters, used to the familiar sounds of moving crowds, screeching wheels and electronic warning signals, may find themselves encountering something unexpected.

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Series
Public Spaces / Private Places

The series explored the elements that turn neutral ‘space’ into meaningful ‘place’ through performances that examined the degrees of intimacy, connection and interaction that mark the dividing line between public and private.

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FADO Performance Art Centre
445-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5V 3A8

416.822.3219
info@performanceart.ca

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Artist Orange

Just as a performance artist uses their body as their medium, this is a fragrance composed entirely of the orange tree: fruit, leaves, bark, roots, and flowers. Artist Orange performs itself.

Top Notes

neroli, blood orange

Middle Notes

fresh orange juice, petit grain

Base Notes

orange twig, orange seed