Tag: Pam Patterson

Curated by Paul Couillard

Cellu(h)er Resistance: The Body with/out Organs? is an epic 5-day performance-as-installation process piece by Toronto artist, educator and cancer survivor, Pam Patterson. The work combines sound, drawing, action, video and collaborative writing examining the artist’s body, the body with disease and the body without organs. 

“After decades of dis-ease and illness, the pain of poverty, dis-ability and being reconfigured by surgery my hands now make another body for my body. . . there are sounds, images, becomings. . . it is accomplished the moment I undertake it. It isn’t the case that the body/I like(s) pain per se; rather, the body/I like(s) being a Body without Organs, and the pain is the price the body/I is/am willing to pay for that.” ~Pam Patterson

Co-presented with XPACE Cultural Centre

Opening Performance
February 27, 2008 @ 8:00pm
58 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

Performance-as-Installation
Open daily from 12:00pm–6:00pm
58 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

Final Performance Action
March 2, 2008 @ 6:00pm
58 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

Canada

www.pampatterson.ca

Pam Patterson (Ph.D., OISE, University of Toronto, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning) has, for 25 years, been active in both the art and movement communities. Her research has focused on embodiment in art practice, the “body” in art and feminist art education with publications in journals such as: Studies in Art Education, Resources for Feminist Research, Matriart, FUSE, Parachute, and presentations in conferences such as: the Feminism and Art Conference (Toronto), History of Art Education Symposium (Penn State), and Moving Bodies, Embodying Movement: Exploring the Rhetoric of the Body (State University of New York, Brockport). She has taught in movement and the arts for various institutions in Toronto and is currently on staff at the Toronto School of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario. As a performance and visual artist she has exhibited and performed across Canada and the USA.