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M:ST 4 Artists
Cindy Baker (Saskatoon)
Personal Appearance – Performing Self
Performance
Presented by The New Gallery and M:ST
Mon Oct 7 - Sun Oct 12
Various locations in Calgary
* To read more about Cindy Baker's performance, visit the M:ST blog!
Schedule of Appearances:
Tues Oct 7: The Nickle Arts Museum
Wed Oct 8: 7-8pm EPCOR CENTRE
Fri Oct 10: 9:30am Adrian Stimson talk, U of C
Fri Oct 10: 7pm The New Gallery
Sat Oct 11: 2pm Eau Claire Market (autograph signing)
Sun Oct 12: 12:30pm Glenbow Museum
Presented as part of the M:ST 4 Alter-Egos, Doppelgangers, and Split Personalities Series
With a professional mascot costume of herself, Baker travels across North America making public appearances as Cindy Baker. The cuddly and approachable mascot costume both amplifies and disguises the characteristics of the person inside and encourages a new kind of mediated interaction between artist and audience. In this project, Baker investigates the way we present public versions of ourselves and the feelings of being sheltered yet vulnerable, plain yet larger-than-life, on display and yet invisible. Watch for Baker's appearances at events throughout the M:ST 4 Festival.
Cindy Baker is an interdisciplinary and performance artist whose practice is influenced by gender culture, queer theory, fat activism and art theory. With a background of working, volunteering, and sitting on the board for several artist-run centres in Western Canada, she has a particular interest in the function of artist-run centres as a breeding ground for deviation. She has exhibited and performed across Canada, and recently made an appearance at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis as part of Artery 24, a 24-hour performance festival.
www.populust.ca/cinde
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
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