Vigil: Field of Crones

Vigil: Field of Crones

Home About Portfolio In Progress PERFORMANCE VIGIL: FIELD OF CRONES  Roles for women, dictated or chosen, are a constant thread through Vida’s work – along with the freeing choice to take on different personas. Invitation as an “Eminence Grise” at the performance...
Sweeping Change

Sweeping Change

Home About Portfolio In Progress PERFORMANCE sweeping change Inserting her presence as a woman artist, Vida enacts several ritualistic actions,  intervening in a formal architectural space that carries a strongly masculine heritage as a college for male students and a...
The Wood Bower

The Wood Bower

Home About Portfolio In Progress PERFORMANCE the wood bower  The wood bower was an offshoot from the video installation Bower, also incorporating aspects of ancient culture. Small basket-like huts in the woods were constructed as a site for meditation and reflection....
Ceremony: Re-Naming

Ceremony: Re-Naming

Home About Portfolio In Progress PERFORMANCE ceremony: re-naming While in residence at The Banff Centre in 1992, and based on feminist readings and family research, the artist decided to officially change her name to Sandra Vida. The re-naming performance took place...
Fixing the Price

Fixing the Price

Home About Portfolio In Progress PERFORMANCE fixing the price A series of three related site-specific solo performances, examining and interrogating sterotypical women’s roles. One used the framework of ballroom dancing with a dance lesson as soundtrack; in another a...