Reading List -- part one

To find these books, check library/bookstores; Amazon/Chapters online; or visit Vancouver Artist-Run-Centres and even the VAG-giftshop. Contact publishers ie. YYZ Artists Outlet (TO), grunt Gallery (Vancouver), FADO (TO). An excellent source for books, magz, videos, household objects and more is ART METROPOLE (TO).

"Caught in the Act (an anthology of performance art by Canadian Women)", edited by Tanya Mars & Johanna Householder; 2004 YYZ Books,Toronto, Ont; ISBN 0-920397-84-0; distributed by ABC Art Books Canada; www.ABCartbookscanada.com

"La Dragu (the Living Art of Margret Dragu)", edited by Paul Couillard; 2002 Fado Performance Inc., Toronto, Ont; ISBN 0-9730883-0-3;distribution info enquire Fado website

"Revelations (Essays on Striptease & Sexuality)", by Margaret Dragu & ASA Harrison, 1988 Nightwood Editions/Harbour Publishing Madeira Park, BC; ISBN 0-88971-117-8

"Bringing it Home (Women Talk about Feminism in their Lives)", edited by Brenda Lea Brown with a foreward by Rosemary Brown; 1996 Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, BC; ISBN 1-55152-034-6

"Mothers Talk Back (Momz Radio)" edited by Margaret Dragu, Sarah Sheard & Susan Swan; 1991 Coach House Press, Toronto, Ont; ISBN 0-88910-420-4

"Live at the End of the Century (Aspects of Performance Art in Vancouver)", edited by Brice Canyon, 2000 Visible Arts Society, Vancouver, BC; ISBN 1-895329-41-8

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Installation & performance collaboration with Pam Hall, St. John's, Newfoundland; photo: Merle Addison

MARGINALIA AKTION 1

Margaret Dragu

365 Day Biennale

PILLOWBOOK (April 2006) NAC Gallery, St. Catharines, Ontario

Allow Me to Introduce Myself

photo: Guy Allen


Margaret Dragu
is celebrating her third decade as a performance artist.
She has presented her work in galleries, museums, theatres, nightclubs, libraries, universities and site-specific venues including parks,botanical gardens, and public parade routes across Canada, the west andeast coast of the United States, and western Europe. Margaret is also
a film and video artist, writer, choreographer, actor, and radio
broadcaster. She is also a fitness instructor and personal trainer at
community centres and hospitals in the city of Richmond, BC, specializing in clients with heart/stroke history, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, COPD, and for the visually impaired as well as clients requiring post-rehab and post-surgery programmes including cancer survivors, hip and knee replacements, etc.

Margaret: I am totally excited about
the Sept Residence at Douglas College!

Like I always say:
MAKING BREAD = MAKING COMMUNITY
= MAKING ART
Come back to this blogg for
times/dates for audience-participation performances, student workshops; look for bread surveys and discussions about Ibsen's "A Dollhouse", community-building, art-making, and bread-making !!! xoxo md