Victoria Mohr-Blakeney is a curator, writer, and choreographer based out of Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Canada.
She is currently Associate Director & Performance Curator at Public Energy Performing Arts.
She is currently Associate Director & Performance Curator at Public Energy Performing Arts.
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2020
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Curating Live Arts: Critical Perspectives, Essays and Conversations on Theory and Practice (Contributor)
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field’s characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms—not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field’s characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms—not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.
2018
Locked in a Way (film)
Minikino Film Week
Oct.6-13, 2018
Bali, Indonesia
Minikino Film Week
Oct.6-13, 2018
Bali, Indonesia
Locked in a Way (US Premiere)
1pm Oct.6, 2018 'Experimental Shorts Program'
Shawna Shea Memorial Film Festival
Uxbridge, MA, United States
1pm Oct.6, 2018 'Experimental Shorts Program'
Shawna Shea Memorial Film Festival
Uxbridge, MA, United States
Show and Tell Poetry Series - Peterborough Showcase
Sept.30th 7pm
The Garnet, Peterborough
Poets: Mohr-Blakeney, Cecchin, Collins
Sorry
Sept.24-26, 2018
Peterborough Square
Artsweek Peterborough
Choreography: Victoria Mohr-Blakeney
Artists: Kate Story, Ryan Kerr & Evangeline Gentle
Sept.24-26, 2018
Peterborough Square
Artsweek Peterborough
Choreography: Victoria Mohr-Blakeney
Artists: Kate Story, Ryan Kerr & Evangeline Gentle
Performance Making & the Archive Conference
March 16-17, 2018
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Research Presentation (Virtual): "No Context: Curatorial Writing, Performance & The Archive"
March 16-17, 2018
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Research Presentation (Virtual): "No Context: Curatorial Writing, Performance & The Archive"
When I Think of Her (Film)
February 15-17, 2018
Small Dance for a Small Space, The Theatre on King, Peterborough, ON
February 15-17, 2018
Small Dance for a Small Space, The Theatre on King, Peterborough, ON
2017
When I Think of Her - Precarious Festival
November 3, 2017
Precarious ArtWORK Festival
Peterborough, ON
November 3, 2017
Precarious ArtWORK Festival
Peterborough, ON
[in]SITES Performance Series
September-October 2017
Peterborough/Nogojiwanong & Curve Lake First Nation
Curated/Presented by: Public Energy, Artspace, Art Gallery of Peterborough, ReFrame Film Festival
September-October 2017
Peterborough/Nogojiwanong & Curve Lake First Nation
Curated/Presented by: Public Energy, Artspace, Art Gallery of Peterborough, ReFrame Film Festival
Intersections in Dance
July 28-August 26, 2017
Artists | Daria Blum, Eva Cooper, Daniele Dennis, jes sachse, Allanah Vokes | Curator | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney
Xpace Gallery, Toronto, Canada
July 28-August 26, 2017
Artists | Daria Blum, Eva Cooper, Daniele Dennis, jes sachse, Allanah Vokes | Curator | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney
Xpace Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Performing Writing Conference
March 10-19, 2017
Massey University. Wellington, New Zealand
Research presentation: "No Context: Curatorial Writing & Contemporary Dance"
March 10-19, 2017
Massey University. Wellington, New Zealand
Research presentation: "No Context: Curatorial Writing & Contemporary Dance"
2016
Bernie Martin - Of Another Place
November 2016
A Certain Place: The Bernie Martin Festival
Artist | Bernie Martin | Curators | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney & Jonathan Lockyer
Evans Contemporary Gallery, Peterborough, Canada
November 2016
A Certain Place: The Bernie Martin Festival
Artist | Bernie Martin | Curators | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney & Jonathan Lockyer
Evans Contemporary Gallery, Peterborough, Canada
Victoria Mohr-Blakeney is now Performance Curator at Public Energy Performing Arts.
She is a recipient of the Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts grant, and will work on curatorial, production, and educational programming at Public Energy.
She is a recipient of the Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts grant, and will work on curatorial, production, and educational programming at Public Energy.
In the fall of 2015 Toronto's Xpace Cultural Centre commissioned Victoria Mohr-Blakeney to write the accompanying curatorial essay for their upcoming Xpace exhibition, States of Being, featuring contemporary artists Yana Verba and Adria Mirabelli. The essay "States of Being: An Act of Wayfinding has been published in Xpace's annual catalogue publication Volume.
"Blinded by Sound, Playing at Life"
The Dance Current
April, 2, 2016
In "Blinded by Sound, Playing at Life" Victoria Mohr-Blakeney reflects on Bill Coleman and Gordon Monahan's newest collaboration, a post-disciplinary performance titled Dollhouse, presented by Public Energy, which premiered in Peterborough on Arpil 2, 2016 at Market Hall.
2015
About Face
Artist | Bridget Moser
Curator | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney
Artspace, Peterborough, November 6, 2015
In About Face, performance and video artist Bridget Moser draws on the intrinsic intelligence of the inanimate world. Photo credit: Yuula Benivolski.
"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikinis - A Conversation With Bridget Moser"
In "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikinis" performance and video artist Bridget Moser and curator Victoria Mohr-Blakeney have a conversation about performance, humour, doubt, and the absurdity of making art.
"Calm Amid the Chaos: An Interview with Lara Kramer on her New Work Tame"
The Dance Current
October, 17, 2015
Victoria Mohr-Blakeney interviews Montreal based choreographer Lara Kramer shortly before the world premiere of her latest dance theatre performance Tame.
The Dance Current
October, 17, 2015
Victoria Mohr-Blakeney interviews Montreal based choreographer Lara Kramer shortly before the world premiere of her latest dance theatre performance Tame.
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"Curating Dance: Writing Embodied Practice"
Multiple Li(v)es of Art/ists & Disciplinary Fuzziness and the Futures of Art Criticism KAPSULA Magazine, Special Issue, September 2015 Volume 3 "Curating Dance: Writing Embodied Practice" explores the complex interaction between writing, performance and the archive. |
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BLINK Artsweek Peteborough
September 18-27, 2015 Artists | Andrew MacDonald, Matthew Hayes, The Graphic History Collective, John Climenhage, Elizabeth Sullivan, Paul Oldham, Tara Azzopardi, Patrick Moore, and Joe Stable, Curators: Victoria Mohr-Blakeney & Elizabeth Fennell BLINK features nine artist installations across downtown Peterborough. |
Move to Stillness
Artist | Angela Blumberg
Curators | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney & Vicki Clough
Harbourfront Centre July 4-5, 2015
Move to Stillness is an immersive installation, which features a series of performances by a Toronto based dance artist Angela Blumberg.
Artist | Angela Blumberg
Curators | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney & Vicki Clough
Harbourfront Centre July 4-5, 2015
Move to Stillness is an immersive installation, which features a series of performances by a Toronto based dance artist Angela Blumberg.
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Curator's Talk: Urban Geographies & Shifting Identities Artists | Linda Elshami, Genevieve Wallen, Miranda Whist Host | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney InspiraTO Festival, Alumnae Theatre, Toronto / May 30th 4:00-5:00pm Three Toronto based contemporary artists discuss their recent artistic work in a series of one on one interviews with curator Victoria Mohr-Blakeney |
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President's Medal for Criticism and Curatorial Practice Victoria Mohr-Blakeney 2015 Recipient GradX Award Ceremony, OCAD University On April 29, 2015, at the OCAD University GradX ceremony Victoria Mohr-Blakeney received the President's Medal for Criticism and Curatorial Practice for her MFA thesis work title "Curatorial Writing & Contemporary Dance". Mohr-Blakeney worked with Cara Spooner & Erin McCurdy (Nomadic Curatorial Collective) to curate No Context by dance artist Amelia Ehrhardt. |
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No Context or Studio Place or Decentralize or We Actually Maybe Right Now Have Everything We Need Artist | Amelia Ehrhardt Curators | Nomadic Curatorial Collective (Cara Spooner, Erin McCurdy, Victoria Mohr-Blakeney) George Brown School of Design & The Citadel March 25 & April 9, 2015 No Context is a new dance work by Amelia Ehrhardt in conversation with archival documents from Toronto's first dance artist-run centre 15 Dance Lab (1974-1980). |
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No Context or Studio Place or Decontextualize or We Actually Maybe Right Now Have Everything We Need Exhibition Catalogue Publisher Nomadic Curatorial Collective Editor Victoria Mohr-Blakeney Design Marta Ryczko/ Printer PaperPusher/Copyright 2015 Nomadic Curatorial Collective ISBN 978-0-9940634-0-3 |
2014
The Duel: Competition at the Heart of Play
Artists | Nathalie Quagliotto, Sarah Febbraro, Geoffrey Pugen, VSVSVS
Curators | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, Rui Amaral, Genevieve Wallen, Vicki Clough,
Erin Saunders, Natasha Peterson, Matt Kyba
First Thursday Series
February 6, 2014
Artists | Nathalie Quagliotto, Sarah Febbraro, Geoffrey Pugen, VSVSVS
Curators | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, Rui Amaral, Genevieve Wallen, Vicki Clough,
Erin Saunders, Natasha Peterson, Matt Kyba
First Thursday Series
February 6, 2014
The Duel: Competition at the Heart of Play, is an evening of installation and performance at the Art Gallery of Ontario. It features performances by Sarah Febbraro and Geoffrey Pugen as well as playful installations by Nathalie Quagliotto. Tape Deck Bros. DJ duo perform in Walker Court followed by Tasha The Amazon and Pick a Piper (featuring Caribou’s Brad Weber). Toronto-based artist collective VSVSVS build and operate an interactive installation titled, How Hard is Your Art, and members of Toronto's creative video-game community speak in a series of Pop Up Talks scheduled throughout the evening.
2013
What Are You Made Of?
Artists | Omar Badrin, Kris Brandhagen, Juan Bonilla, Carole Chaloupka Burton, Linda El Shami, Pilar Fernandez Davila, Siamak Haseli, Ana Jofre, JP King, Anna Kovler, David Constantino Salazar
Curators | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, Rui Amaral, Genevieve Wallen, Vicki Clough, Erin Saunders, Natasha Peterson, Matthew Kyba
OCADU Graduate Gallery
November 8-13, 2013
Artists | Omar Badrin, Kris Brandhagen, Juan Bonilla, Carole Chaloupka Burton, Linda El Shami, Pilar Fernandez Davila, Siamak Haseli, Ana Jofre, JP King, Anna Kovler, David Constantino Salazar
Curators | Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, Rui Amaral, Genevieve Wallen, Vicki Clough, Erin Saunders, Natasha Peterson, Matthew Kyba
OCADU Graduate Gallery
November 8-13, 2013
What Are You Made of? poses questions about how identity is constructed in relationship to objects and environments of daily life, and explores the ways in which human experience is intricately tied to material culture. Featuring the work of select artists from OCAD University’s graduate program in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design, What Are You Made of? offers the opportunity to form new understandings of personal and social identities via our relationship to the material world.