Mitchell Chalifoux: Pairs

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courtesy of Lorenza Cini.

Mitchell Chalifoux, "Hooks and eyes," 2020

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Pairs is an exploration of new collaborative partnerships, between Mitchell Chalifoux and other performance-based artists.

While exhibiting during a global pandemic, Chalifoux will hold space, and devote time, and labour to experimentation with artists whose capacities for live performance have been upended. Each partnership will negotiate its own working parameters, goals, and artistic exchanges, while Chalifoux seeks how to manifest one another’s dreams and fantasies. Using textiles, performance, and other forms to uplift, the artists will explore worldbuilding, future gazing, and garment creation, with and without performance personas. Over the duration, the space will evolve, wandering between studio, exhibition, performance, and stage. Pairs will culminate in a series of overlapping performance duets.

Mitchell Chalifoux (any pronouns) is an artist based in Edmonton on Treaty 6 territory. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. Their art practice contemplates resourcefulness, hobby forms, decoration, and femininities, frequently using performance and craft media. Working with existing materials in a contradicting scarce and abundant present is core to Mitchell’s methods. Their work has appeared in SNAPline, and in exhibitions across Canada, including Idea Exchange (Cambridge, ON), and Alberta Printmakers (Calgary, AB). Most recently, Mitchell has participated in the Venice International Performance Art Week (Venice, ITA), and in the Zero Gravity Performance Art Workshop (Edmonton, AB). They will be performing in a new movement work by choreographer Peggy Baker and CRIPSiE (Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton) in 2021. While not making art, Mitchell spends their time baking and waiting for summer blooms.