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. 

Transmitting Trio A (1966) with Sara Wookey

Led by Sara Wookey, a group of dance and performance artists learn Yvonne Rainer’s seminal work, Trio A (1966). The starting point for this project is the shared conversation between dance and performance artists around the distinctions between repertoire and reenactment, in particular consideration of how these modes of archiving in live art relate to the increasing interest in presenting performance art and choreography in the museum.

Cleaning and Loving (It) by Margaret Dragu

This performance art-slash-parade is a celebration of small-scale community ritual and of International Cleaning Lady and performance artist Margaret Dragu’s long-standing love affair with cleaning and laundry.

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).

Canadian Performance Art Legends

A celebration of Canada’s senior performance artists through the commissioning of a major new work, followed by a publication. Three icons so far: Margaret Dragu, Tanya Mars, Alain-Martin Richard.

La Dragu: The Living Art of Margaret Dragu 

Published in 2002, this monograph includes articles by Glenn Alteen, Paul Couillard, Andy Fabo, Debbie
O’Rourke and Sarah Sheard; chronology by Brice Canyon; PLUS story & collages by Margaret Dragu.