Victoria Stanton

Victoria Stanton is a Part-time Professor in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University, specializing in interdisciplinary performance art, curatorial practices, and material-based works. Her role encompasses artist, author, researcher, and educator, with a focus on the intersections between performance, installation, and time-based media.

Her career spans international exhibitions and performances across festivals in Quebec, Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, Mexico, and Cuba. Stanton has curated performance programs for artist-run centers in Montreal and Toronto, collaborating with scholars like Amelia Jones for events tied to McGill University (2015). She is a founding member of the performance art/research collective TouVA, contributing to critical writings on performative practices and co-authoring a seminal book (SAGAMIE édition d’art, 2017) exploring 'the performative' in performance art. Her earlier work includes a collaborative book with Vincent Tinguely (conundrum press, 2001), documenting an artistic movement through interviews.

Stanton’s digitized archive, chronicling these projects, is permanently housed in Concordia University Library’s Special Collections. Her research emphasizes relational aesthetics, material practices, and the documentation of ephemeral art forms.