lo is a performance artist based in Toronto who creates experiments to correlate her embodied research into process, pleasure,  vulnerability, risk, memory, agency, labour, an aesthetics of feeling and the impacts of a social location on identity.  lo finds images through physical improvisations, spoken loops, and material interactions. Her work is raw, amusing, transparent, and often involves creating a feedback loop with the audience.   

 

lo won the FADO Performance Art Centre Live Art Award for her 5-day performance residency at Summerworks 2016 “the root of the river flows darker than clouds”.

 

Most recently lo has created work for: 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art (2014), 25 Hours for 25 Years for DCAC (2014), Month of Performance Art-Berlin (2015), ITINERANT Performance Art Festival NYC (2015), Duration and Dialogue, Katzman Contemporary Gallery  (2016), Words and [  ] a durational conference by School of Making Thinking (2016) and Summerworks Performance Festival (2016). 

 

Upcoming solo performances in Montreal for WIVES (November 2016), in New York at Panoply Lab (November 2016), in Montreal for Victoria Stanton’s “The Sanctimonious Sect of Nothing Is Sacred” series for artist-run centre DARE-DARE (January 2017) and an ensemble composition with No Object at AGO First Thursdays (November 2016).