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Christof Migone
Christof Migone is an artist, teacher, curator, and writer. He often works with language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity, and endurance. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007. He currently lives in Toronto and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University in London, Ontario.
He co-edited the books Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001) and Volumes (Blackwood Gallery, 2015). His writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, Esse, Inter, Performance Research, etc.
He has released nine solo audio cds on various labels (Avatar, ND, Alien 8, Locust, Oral). He has curated a number of exhibitions and events: Touch that Dial (1990), Radio Contortions (1991), Rappel (1994), Double Site (1998), stuttermouthface (2002), Disquiet (2005), START (2007), STOP.(2008), and Should I Stay or Should I Go (Nuit Blanche 2010), You- (2020, and numerous others for the Blackwood Gallery between 2008 and 2013.
He has performed at 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto), Beyond Music Sound Festival (Los Angeles), kaaistudios (Brussels), South London Gallery (London), Nouvelles Scènes (Dijon), On the Air (Innsbruck), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Experimental Intermedia (NYC), Images Festival (Toronto), Send+Receive (Winnipeg), Kill Your Timid Notion (Dundee), Liquid Architecture (Melbourne), Mutek (Montreal), Victoriaville Festival, Whitney Museum (NYC), LUFF (Lausanne), Cave 12 (Geneva), Ftarri (Tokyo), Bordeline Festival (Athens), ArKO (Seoul), Irtijal (Beirut), etc. He has collaborated with Marla Hlady, Lynda Gaudreau, Martin Tétreault, Tammy Forsythe, Alexandre St-Onge (UNDO), Michel F. Côté, Gregory Whitehead, Set Fire To Flames, and Fly Pan Am. He is a founding member of Avatar (Québec City).
