Paul Couillard has been working as an artist, curator, and cultural theorist since 1985. He has created more than 200 solo and collaborative performance works in 23 countries. He was the Performance Art Curator for Fado from 1993 to 2007, and is also a founding co-curator of the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival, both based in Toronto. He is the editor of Canadian Performance Art Legends, a series of combined text and DVD publications on senior Canadian performance artists published through Fado. The first installment, La Dragu: the Living Art of Margaret Dragu was released in 2002, while the second book, Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars was released in 2008.

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