Dayna McLeod is a middle-aging queer performance-based artist. Her work often uses humour and capitalizes on exploiting the body’s social and material conditions. She uses autoethnographic methods to examine representation, experience, and embodiment. She is collecting your dreams for a series of digital collages as part of an artist residency for the Sociability of Sleep (contact Dayna to send her your dream!). This project continues work she produced for Restless, a video installation that examined her sleep disturbances that was produced as part of an artist residency and exhibition at the PHI Centre in Montreal. In this work Dayna is interested in the intimacy of surveillance, the repetitive monotony of non-sexual representations of queer coupling, nightmares, sleepwalking, and employing her subconscious self as productive artmaking collaborator, muse, and performer.
Intimate Karaoke, Live at Uterine Concert Hall is an ongoing sound-based, interactive, installation performance where audiences are invited to sing their favourite karaoke song into her uterus while other audience members listen via stethoscope through the flesh of her body. A performance that explores our expectations of the productive value of bodies marked female to the tune of a song you can sing, this performance has been presented at the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, The Darling Foundry and OFFTA in Montreal, Summerworks Theatre Festival in Toronto, and Performatorium, Queer City Cinema’s performance festival in Regina. Dayna’s written work has been published in Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, Ciel Variable, Framework, and NOMOREPOTLUCKS. Dayna was a Cougar for a Year in 2012.
Intimate Karaoke, Live at Uterine Concert Hall is an ongoing sound-based, interactive, installation performance where audiences are invited to sing their favourite karaoke song into her uterus while other audience members listen via stethoscope through the flesh of her body. A performance that explores our expectations of the productive value of bodies marked female to the tune of a song you can sing, this performance has been presented at the Tang Teaching Museum in Saratoga Springs, The Darling Foundry and OFFTA in Montreal, Summerworks Theatre Festival in Toronto, and Performatorium, Queer City Cinema’s performance festival in Regina. Dayna’s written work has been published in Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, Ciel Variable, Framework, and NOMOREPOTLUCKS. Dayna was a Cougar for a Year in 2012.
Links
Portfolio website: https://daynarama.com/
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/daynarama
Uterine Concert Hall: https://www.uterineconcerthall.com/
Cougar for a Year: https://cougarthis.com/
Instagram: @daynarama
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/daynarama
Uterine Concert Hall: https://www.uterineconcerthall.com/
Cougar for a Year: https://cougarthis.com/
Instagram: @daynarama
