Shannon Cochrane

b. 1972, Canada
www.shannoncochrane.com

Shannon Cochrane is a Toronto-based performance artist. Her work has been presented in museums, galleries and festivals across Canada and in twenty countries around the world. Shannon’s practice is mainly concerned with performing the tension between process and strategy, and context and perception. Kinks include problematizing authorship and just about anything that leans on repetition. She’s also a Form Queen who is deeply committed to humour.

Over the last 25 years, Shannon has contributed to the development of a national performance art ecology through curating, programming, producing, fundraising, advocating and supporting performance artists and their work for a variety of artist-run organizations and independent platforms. Shannon is a founding member, co-organizer and co-curator of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art (established in 1997 in Toronto). She has been the Artistic + Administrative Director of FADO Performance Art Centre since 2007.

Artists

Documentation

Performance

Performance
CHARCO Exchange

CHARCO is initiated by LIVE ART EXCHANGE, a process-based research and creation project by Ana Matey and Isabel Leon, which has realized projects with dozens of artists in Spain, Finland and Norway.

Performance
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.
Performance
Silent Dinner

In Silent Dinner, a group of 13 people set up a rudimentary kitchen and then prep, cook and eat a dinner in shared silence, without communicating in their language of origin, in front of the attending audience. The performers are a mix of Deaf, hearing and one CoDA.
Performance
SHUT UP!

SHUT UP is a series of 10 outdoor performances dealing with the themes of incarceration and wrongful imprisonment – literally, the state of being ‘shut up’.
Performance
Get Trained by Shannon Cochrane

The sixth performance in the TIME TIME TIME series.
Performance
Legs, Too

There is no staff, no coordinator, no stage manager, only artists working together. LEGS has legs. LEGS is a manifestation of the social and performing body through the collective network and expanded community.

Writing

Writing
Notes on CHARCO Exchange

Text by Shannon Cochrane on the possibilities and limits of artistic collaboration and communication across language.

Engagements

Series

Series
TIME TIME TIME

TIME TIME TIME is a series of 12 works by different artists, presented in Toronto over the course of a year with each work lasting a minimum of 12 continuous hours.

Books & Ephemera

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5V 3A8

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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