More Cleaning and Loving (It) … Again by Margaret Dragu

Nearly 24 years after the first parade Margaret and Jordan (re)create a new performance and video document. More Cleaning and Loving (It) … Again is (once/again) a reflection on the dirtiness of politics. 

An Interview with Aleesa Cohene

FADO archive resident Jordan King interviews Aleesa Cohene about Vancouver, Los Angeles, Kathy Bates, film-making and things that smell (like perfume and the new FADO Performance Art Centre website).

An Interview with Margaret Dragu

FADO archive resident Jordan King interviews Margaret Dragu about archiving, parades, the domestic, and her 2000 performance Cleaning and Loving It. This interview is one in a series of three interviews by Jordan Beley with select artists about their work at FADO and the archive.

REAL TO REEL

As an immaterial practice, performance art’s relationship to archive has always been a fraught one. Using their own/other documentation from the FADO archive, these five artists activate and challenge the linear narrative of the archive by creating new video works inspired by (or even using) their own documentation material.

Videos by Gustaf Broms (Sweden), Heather Rule (Canada), Margaret Dragu (Canada), MC Coble (USA/Sweden), Simla Civelek (Canada).