Chris Dupuis

Chris Dupuis is a Toronto-based artist creating video, performance, and text-based work that has been presented across North America and Europe. Since 2000 he has created a varied body of work in video, performance, installation, theatre, dance, and fiction. His work often explores intimacy between strangers, modes of and impediments to communication, and frequently challenges the relationship between artist and audience. Past artist residencies include The Banff Centre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, The Canadian Stage Company, and Studio 303. For four years he worked as part of the bluemouth inc. performance collective, creating large-scale site-specific works in porn-theatres, school buses, funeral homes, and other strange places, in Toronto, Montreal, and New York. In 2004 he received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production for the company’s five-hour multi-location epic Something About a River. He also works as a freelance arts journalist, contributing regularly to a variety of publications, in addition to editing the online performance criticism magazine Time and Space.

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