Profile for Victoria Gray

Victoria Gray makes live work that is located between performance and sculpture; performances that are sculptures and sculptures that are performances.

Using minimal materials, primarily the body, the work explores the politics of movement and ways in which sociocultural factors inscribe and exert control over the body. Through performance actions, the work considers how the body might be antagonistic and resistant to dominant techniques of corporeal inscription, silencing and subordination.

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Victoria has developed work nationally and internationally, including solo performances at: ]Performance S p a c e[ (London), tactileBOSCH (Cardiff), Abandon Normal Devices (Liverpool), Sideshow 2010, British Art Show 7 (Nottingham), Elevator Gallery (London), ArtEvict (London), Chisenhale Dance Studios (London), Axis Arts Centre for Contemporary Art (Manchester). Victoria has developed work on international residencies including Performing Arts Forum (France), Es.Terni Festival, (Italy) and Grace Exhibition Space, (New York).

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Victoria is co-founder of O U I Performance (York) with artist Nathan Walker. O U I Performance, founded in 2010, is a not-for-profit, artist-led organization curating live time-based performance art with a national and international profile.

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Victoria is a Lecturer in Performance within the Faculty of Arts, York St John University, York, UK and in 2011 began a PhD in Fine Art Performance at Chelsea College of Art, London.