Leena Raudvee is a Toronto based visual and performance artist,
and uncertainty through the lens of disability and aging.
Her drawings investigate the performative embodied within the drawing of a line. They were exhibited in Unpacking Pandemic Pondering online at OCADU and Gallery 1313 and in the Rendezvous with Madness Festival presented by Workman Arts in 2021.
focusing on precariousness
In performance, she has been exploring her disability through examining the relation between her drawing practice and her daily performance, as performance art, of the basic acts of mobility. She performed Teetering on an Edge for Pi*llOry in Toronto in 2019 and her performance-based video, making space, was screened in the Photophobia Festival presented by HAI and Hamilton Art Gallery in 2020. Precarious Gestures, her performance as video, was curated by Critical Design Lab for #CripRitual at the Doris McCarthy Gallery in 2022.
In 2023, Raudvee continued this work in Precarious Lines, an installation at The Arcadia Art Gallery in Toronto. During her residency there she created a performance called Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, 10 large charcoal drawings and, with videographer Alexandra Gelis, several videos documenting the performances of getting up from a chair and the drawings made in response.

Artist Code: 2143