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Tanya Mars is a performance and video artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tanya Mars
Born
Tanya Ann Marshall

1948
Monroe, Michigan, United States of America
Known forMultidisciplinary performance, video art
Websitehttp://tanyamars.com


Life

Mars was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1948, and has lived in Canada since 1967.[1] She was educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at Loyola College, Montreal (now incorporated into Concordia University).[2]

Mars currently teaches in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media in the University of Toronto Scarborough.[3]

Work

Mars was a founder and director of Powerhouse Gallery (La Centrale) in Montreal, one of Canada's first feminist art collectives. She went on to edit Parallelogramme, an arts journal.[3][4]

During the 1970s and 1980s, Mars was a member and secretary of the Association of National Non-Profit Artist-Run Centres, a national lobby group for artist-run centres (1976-1989).[5] She is a past president and member of FADO, a non-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada.[5]

Tyranny of Bliss took place in 2004 in Toronto which had audiences travel by car to 14 tableaux representing the seven heavenly virtues and seven deadly sins. [6]

With Johanna Householder, Mars co-edited the 2004 anthology Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women.[7]

Mars' performance work received in-depth treatment in a 2008 critical anthology edited by Paul Couillard.[8]

Videography[9][10]

  • The Granny Suites, Part 1: Happy Birthday to You - 2006
  • 7 Deadly Sins/ 7 Deadly Virtues - 2004
  • Hot! - 1998
  • Doom - 1996
  • Bronco's Kiss - 1996
  • Mz. Frankenstein - 1993
  • End of Nature, The - 1991
  • PURE HELL - 1990
  • Pure Sin - 1990
  • Pure Nonsense - 1987
  • Pure Sin - 1986
  • Pure Virtue - 1985
  • 24 Postcards - 1983
  • Picnic In The Drift - 1981

Awards

References

  1. ^ Couillard, edited by Paul (2008). Ironic to iconic : the performance works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc. p. 203. ISBN 0973088311. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ Couillard, edited by Paul (2008). Ironic to iconic : the performance works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc. p. 203. ISBN 0973088311. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ a b "Tanya Mars | Department of Arts, Culture and Media". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ^ "40 Years of La Centrale Programming Series". La Centrale. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  5. ^ a b Mars, Tanya; Householder, Johanna, eds. (2004). Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women. Toronto, ON, Canada: YYZ Books. p. 427. ISBN 0-920397-84-0.
  6. ^ Adams, James (March 26, 2008). "A $200,000 day". Globe and Mail.
  7. ^ Mars, Tanya and Johanna Householder, eds. Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women. Toronto: YYZ Books, 2004
  8. ^ Couillard, Paul, ed. Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc., 2008
  9. ^ "Artist | Vtape". www.vtape.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  10. ^ "Tanya Mars". tanyamars.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  11. ^ Couillard, edited by Paul (2008). Ironic to iconic : the performance works of Tanya Mars. Toronto: Fado Performance Inc. p. 226. ISBN 0973088311. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)


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