Antonija Livingstone operates at the intersection of performance and plastic arts often in situ.
Formerly as a dancer /choreographer working most extensively with Benoit Lachambre and later with Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods. Self-taught, her outlook is most influenced by nomadism and her family of geologists living and working in itinerant gold mining camps in the Canadian northwest. kinship with the elements. affection for the makeshift. exploration. Her body of work is 20 years of devotion to a series of complex co-authored feminist performance projects: Works conceived and performed together with choreographers and visual artists and guest collaborators from all walks of life. The works have been previously commissioned by and shown in diverse contexts internationally Barbican London. As an associate artist at Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, and Darling Foundry, Montreal 2018. Livingstone elaborates her practice as a curator, and teacher researching Vandalism/Queer Methods/ Studies in Ruins. Motivated by a need for re-enchantment and refuge Livingstone strives to activate inclusive assemblages of kin and things: paradoxical companionships trembling between genres ..sans papiers.