for QUORUM FORUM: we are SCREENING this bill again @ TENNIS COURT 7pm SHARP this SUNDAY JAN.22.  Delicious homemade popcorn will be provided.

CANADIAN VIDEO ARTISTS:  Elisha Lim and Coco Riot / Anthea Black / Heidi Nagtegaal / Brescia Bloodbeard / Michael V. Smith /  Martin Borden / Maya Suess / Lucas Crawford / Jenny Lin / Marie Pierre Grenier / Lamathilde  / Kandis Friesen / Clark Nikolai  / Emlio Rojas / Sh ayo  / Mrs Keith Murray/  Jess Mac

André Azevedo and I are also curating

HAIRCAKE SHOW
a night of performances and art and cake
Saturday February 18th
9pm- 2 am

so you will have something to look forward to because Valentine’s Day can be a weird time of year!  Love is hairy! So come celebrate hair and cake with us in the spacious Tennis Court, a Brooklyn queer collective living project.    If you would like to SUBMIT WORK to this fun experimental event click here.  Deadline February 5!  Just attach your hair/ cake photo image to coralshort@gmail.com.  We are making a giant looping international slideshow that runs all night.

One in four people would turn away the Virgin Mary if she turned up on their doorstep looking for help, according to a survey.

Coral Short, a Montreal artist has arrived in Vancouver to perform SINGLE MOM VIRGIN MARY every Saturday afternoon for the month of December at Georgia and Granville Street.

Short combines high camp theatre, body as sculpture and guerilla street art creating a contemporary art practise seldomly seen on the streets of Vancouver. Short will remain motionless in the blue and white robes of the iconic Jewish maiden, her long flowing brown hair, very pregnant belly and a peaceful expression on her face. She will perform the Virgin Mary’s famous matriarchal gestures surrounded by a flurry of frantic holiday shoppers. After Christmas Day a child will be born through the legendary immaculate conception.

Short wishes to call attention to the status of single mothers who are living at or below the poverty line due to many budget cuts to their social programs. Single mothers are also more apt to suffer from stigmatization, discrimination and abuse/violence.

All donations to the SINGLE MOM VIRGIN MARY statue will be going to the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. This time of year is the time to think of others and show generosity to those in need. Please visit on this site to give donations even if you can’t make it downtown to see this thought provoking performance. A few clicks will make a difference in a single mom’s life today during this holiday season.

The Hammock Residency is supporting Short in this endeavour. This piece is dedicated to all the strong single mothers out there who are full of grace.

photos by:  Katie Stewart, Fenner Rumble and Heidi Nagtegaal.  If you are looking for excellent photographers in Vancouver hit these websites!

THANK YOU: Felix Foxglove, Amy Nugent, Jackie Rumble, Sarah Sharkey Pearce, Jesse Blanchie, Steps, Teresa Sudeyko, Mary Short, André Azevedo, Jillian Deri, and the Hammock Residency for all the different ways you supported this performance.

SALACIOUS:  Silver Door, Montreal October 21

I am experimenting with a new piece called “Present” where I will be doing interactive one on one breathing with audience members.  Also performing on this night are:  performance artists Shayo, Jordan Arsenault, and the ever amazing Johnny Forever

Here is the card I gave to people after they breathed with me:

November ▼ MIX NYC ▼

I will be performing The Insiders with 16 members of my New York queer community.  Here is my page in the MIX catalogue.

My work will be showing during a furries installation at MIX in a piece curated by Melanie Rainbow! Here is a still from that film, Hum(animals)

And also I will be screening my new video work Lesbian Hand Gestures twice on Saturday November 19 which is a new video for Lesbians on Ectasy.  I was able to make this work with the generosity of Bildwechsel, Villa Magdalena and Canada Council for the Arts.  Here is a still from my new video work I made last year in Berlin with help from Mascha Niels and Meagan Castle.

December

I am super excited to be doing the Hammock Residency which is run by the magical Heidi Nagtegaal.  I will be performing a new work entitled SINGLE MOM VIRGIN MARY at the corner of West Georgia and Granville for the last four Saturday afternoons in December.  This piece calls attention to the status of single mothers who are almost all living below the poverty line due to the many budget cuts in their social programs.  Single mothers are also more apt to suffer from stigmatization, discrimination and abuse/ violence.

In December I am also in this beautiful photo show:  Nice to Meet You.  It is by my go-to photographer and web site designer.  If you are interested in any photo work in Montréal or website work anywhere contact her! Tif Flowers -she is a delight to work with.

January and February 

I start my artist residency at Tennis Court in Brooklyn working on new video and performance work.  I am pleased to be supported by Petit Versailles/ Material for the Arts.

I had the pleasure of working with 6 lovely new unicorns: Wesley Flash, Gaël Krajzman Johns, Lyndon Cudlitz, Ashley, Krys Richardson and the unicorn trainer Anne Grip.  Thank you to Sarah Fuchs to providing me with the excellent musical selections.

Also earlier in the summer I had the honour of carrying L.J. Robert‘s work on the dyke march in New York on June 25th.  Here is a photo of us carrying this large weaving created on a jacquard loom.  This photo below was tumbled hundreds of times and was in Pop up Museum Of Queer History at the Leslie/Lohman Gallery in New York…

Back in Montreal, I was delighted to present a curation on August 13th  by André Azevedo from the MIX Film Festival in New York entitled Insert Here at Pervers/Cité.

In September right on the equinox weekend I was happily performing City of Sighs,  a performance where I sighed 1,000 times.  This piece was a cover of Alexis O’Hara‘s work and was a part of the VENT Performance Art Festival curating by the talented Ms. Maya Suess. Here are some photos from that cathartic performance thanks to Anne Grip and André Azevedo.

Thank you performers! Courtney, K, Kristen, Kelly, Karl, Emma, Laurence and Paige. Curated by Troy Davis. photos by Osiris Ramos and Tif Flowers

The images from the show that was done of my piece Mole Flanders at the Portland Art Museum.    I wasn’t there but Jen Kovach (who created the piece with me) and Jenstar Brockman carry it off with finesse.  Moles for everyone victorian style!

A big thank you to Helen Reed for bringing this piece back to life!  It has only been done once before in Vancouver, B.C. in 2006 at Signal and Noise at VIVO.

here are some photos from the hamburg performance of moustache factory at westwerk.  i did it femmestache style!  thank you tara robertson and vanessa kwan for this inspiration!

next up MONTREAL!  i am so excited to be returning to my heart city.

i am curating for GIV on the 16th.

<3 radical queer semaine <3

* curating films on tuesday 15th

** performing at the monster ball with the insiders piece above saturday 19th at around 11pm.

***  talking about the films and  performance in Montreal on Queer Corps on CKUT with Jordan Arsenault!

<3 trippy poster below made by Johnston Newfield.

hope to see you at one of these events montrealers! i’ve missed you.   xx

This Saturday, February 19th in Hamburg I am peforming at KABARETT with my Moustache Factory.

I am curating next Wednesday, February 23rd at the GLITZER BAR @ LINKER LADEN, KLEINER SCHÄFERKAMP 46  here in Hamburg hosted by the lovely Christina and Claude of Bildwechsel.  It is the radical queer bar in town.  This program is also travelling to Berlin and Montreal…..

Open Your Golden Gates Have you ever been to San Francisco? Did you leave your heart there? Are you curious about the world’s gay paradise? Coral Short is back to deliver you the Bay Area’s finest queer videomakers’ work. From Oakland back across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, the raw creativity of the world’s gay epicentre is on display. Shining forth from the projector this work will delight, move and astonish you. Ranging from tough to tender, from dreamlike to wild, new queer stars are born. So crawl out of that winter hibernation cave, bundle up, come out, and be entertained by these hot Californians. Bay Area Video Artists: Terry Berlier Lukas Black David Castro Yvette Choy Joey Cupcake Jason Fritz Samara Halperin Loretta Hintz Philip Huang Jody Jock Gregory Kaplowitz Justin Kelly Mev Luna (in still image above) Sadie Lune Ilyse Magy Julian Shendelman Liz Singer Chris Vargas

After Hamburg I move on to Berlin where I am performing Insiders March 8 for International Women’s Day at the QUEERE ANTIPATRIARCHATS-PARTY.  And then I am curating Open Your Golden Gates at the Silver Future with my co-host Mascha Niels from Entzaubert Film Festival.

And then on to Montreal to Radical Queer Semaine!  Curation and performance dates to be announced.

upcoming west coast american gigs

portland art museum (PDX)

Mole Flanders a collaborative performance piece I created with Jen Kovach will be reproduced by Helen Reed as curator for an event on October 15 called Shine a Light at the Portland Art Museum.   This is an interactive piece in which the entire audience chooses bodily locations of moles both hairy and tidy varieties.

Annie Sprinkle’s purple wedding (LA)

The lovely Cindy Baker and Megan Morman have happily roped me into performing at this final wedding of the wedding series October 22- 24.

queer allstars (SF)

This event is curated by the (in)famous international Ingo of London, England fabulous Club Wotever on November 20th at El Rio.  I will be unveiling a new semi-interactive performance piece.