For the past 20 years, the film and video work of Canadian artist Deirdre Logue has focused on the self as subject. Using ‘performance for the camera’ as a primary mode of production, her compelling self-portraits investigate what it means to be a queer body in the age of anxiety.

Logue has been prolific and steadfast in her engagement with the moving image and has subsequently produced upwards of 60 short films and videos as well as some of this country’s most celebrated video art installations including Enlightened Nonsense (1997-2000), ten hand- processed performance-based works about childhood worries; Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes (2003-2007), twelve works that are reflections on aging, breaking down and reparation; and her commissioned project, Id’s Its (2012), an ambitious suite of thirteen installations exploring the richness of our malfunctions and the power of the abject. Diving deep into the unconscious, Logue’s recorded performances are a tangle of fragmentation, doubt, perversion, duration, symbiosis, sexuality, and psychic unrest. Uniquely located on the golden mean between excess and deficiency, self-liberation and self-annihilation, her works are at once unruly and uncanny.

Deirdre Logue holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from Kent State University. Solo exhibitions of her lm and video work have taken place at venues such as Open Space, Victoria; Oakville Galleries; the Berlin International Film Festival; Beyond/In Western New York, Buffalo; YYZ, Toronto; and articule, Montreal, with exhibitions at A Space Gallery, Gallery 44, and Tangled Art + Disability (all Toronto) as part of her 2017 Images Festival Spotlight.
Logue has contributed over twenty- ve years to working with artist-run organizations dedicated to media arts exhibition and distribution. She was a founding member of Media City Film Festival, Windsor; the Executive Director of the Images Festival, Toronto; Executive Director of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC); founding member of the Media Arts Network
of Ontario (MANO); and is currently the Development Director at Vtape.
She is a champion of artist rights and has held numerous board positions
with organizations such as Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. Logue has been a member of the Independent Imaging Collective (the Film Farm) with Phil Hoffman since 1999 and directs the Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) with her partner and collaborator, artist Allyson Mitchell.

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