Danny Gaudreault

Danny Gaudreault is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, whose practice revolves around action art. Over the past twenty years, he has presented his performances at various events and festivals in Canada and Finland. Part of his work as an artist and curator is characterized by the occupation of public space. Over the years, he has repeatedly used the same artifacts of life and performance (knives, soiled clothes, lint, hair, etc.) in an effort to juxtapose various references, and above all, to control their meaning in a specific context. It is simultaneously a metaphor for the way he constructs his identity, and a literal part of the process of identity creation-destruction. In intimate works, he uses the expression of his vulnerability as a political gesture. Recently, his research has focused mainly on the fragile archiving of the performative process.