Margaret Dragu
Margaret Dragu works in video, installation, web/analogue book publication, and performance. Spanning relational, durational, interventionist and community-based practices, her performances have been presented in galleries, museums, theatres, nightclubs, libraries, universities and site-specific venues including parks, botanical gardens, and public parade routes across Canada, USA and Europe. An innovator and pioneer in Canadian art, Dragu was the recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts in 2012. Margaret Dragu was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. She lives in East Vancouver, BC where she makes art and continues her 45+ year art practice along with her 45+ year body practice as Personal Trainer/Group Fitness & Yoga Instructor.
Artist Code: 117
Videography
A Dancer, An Actor and a Performance Artist Walk into a Bar
2017, 07:00 minutes, colour, English
Commodification of Touch: Bath Stories
2016, 09:46 minutes, colour, English, Spanish, Serbian, Mandarin
2016, 11:06 minutes, colour, no language
2016, 03:03 minutes, colour, no language
VERB FRAU TV Season 5: The 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art (2016)
2016, 157:00 minutes, colour, English
VERB FRAU TV Season 4 Poland, 5 episodes
2015, 72:00 minutes, colour, English
VERB FRAU TV Season 4 Daily Web, 5 episodes
2015, 13:00 minutes, colour, English
VERB FRAU TV Season 3: LIVE! 4 episodes
2015, 26:00 minutes, colour, English
VERB FRAU TV Season 3 Daily Web, 11 episodes
2015, 27:11 minutes, colour, English
VERB FRAU TV Season 2, 4 episodes
2015, 50:54 minutes, colour, English
Lady Justice Commemorative Art-Aktion
2014, 06:28 minutes, colour, no language
2013, 32:19 minutes, colour, English
VERB FRAU TV Season 1, 14 episodes
2013, 257:35 minutes, colour, English
2013, 13:50 minutes, colour, English
2012, 18:47 minutes, colour, English
2012, 03:00 minutes, colour, English
Lady Justice and the Epic Burden
2012, 05:28 minutes, colour
RISING: Bread Stories Newfoundland
2011, 10:55 minutes, colour, English
Gestures Edith Francisco-Fernando and Margaret
2010, 05:13 minutes, colour, English
Yet Another #$%&*@*! Bed-In (2010 Peace Project)
2010, 04:12 minutes, colour, English
Lady Justice Presents Roadside Memorials and Shrines
2008, 05:19 minutes, colour, English
Lady Justice and the Lover Swan
2007, 05:34 minutes, colour, English
Lady Justice and the Lost Sword
2007, 05:28 minutes, colour, English
2005, 19:30 minutes, colour, Eng, Span, Ger, Canton, Japanese
RISING: nuestra senora del pan at La Centrale Powerhouse in Montreal
2004, 37:25 minutes, colour, English and French
RISING: Bread Stories Edmonton
2004, 11:30 minutes, colour, English
2004, 27:24 minutes, colour, English w Fr. sub
2001, 14:00 minutes, colour, English
2000, 13:00 minutes, colour, English
1996, 20:00 minutes, colour, English
1994, 14:00 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
Brunt: Grunt Gallery in Print, 2008. Vancouver: Visible Arts Society: Grunt Gallery, 2008.
by . Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America, 2006. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.
by . Caught In the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women, 2004. Toronto: YYZ, 2004.