Pick Up
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50878
Description: TWP Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. A feminist, oedipal, labour look at an immigrant girl's dreams of art and sex in opposition to her parents' wishes/fears/needs; including relationships with men in uniforms, a collapsing circus-style swing designed by Jim Plaxton and an enormous drop down 2 dimensional telephone by same day.
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Date Made: 1976
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Work by Margaret Dragu
Pick Up
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50877
Description: TWP Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. A feminist, oedipal, labour look at an immigrant girl's dreams of art and sex in opposition to her parents' wishes/fears/needs; including relationships with men in uniforms, a collapsing circus-style swing designed by Jim Plaxton and an enormous drop down 2 dimensional telephone by same day.
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Date Made: 1976
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pick Up
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50878
Description: TWP Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. A feminist, oedipal, labour look at an immigrant girl's dreams of art and sex in opposition to her parents' wishes/fears/needs; including relationships with men in uniforms, a collapsing circus-style swing designed by Jim Plaxton and an enormous drop down 2 dimensional telephone by same day.
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Date Made: 1976
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Si Vite Si Vite Fondues les Neiges D’Antans
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50879
Description: Cinema Lumiere, Toronto, Ontario. Photographer: Pasqualino Semirama. A yesterday, today and tomorrow piece with a full band and a large cast and a set full of mirrors, shadows, silhouettes including a romantic duet on stilts.
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Date Made: 1976
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Back Up
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50880
Description: video collaboration with Kate Craig; Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Date Made: 1978
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33 1/3 Double Live
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50881
Description: collaboration with Enrico Campana & Terry Crack; Factory Theatre Lab, Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Barbara E. Wilde. A longer run of two popular performances with new performers, set, etc.
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Date Made: 1979
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Steel and the Flesh (video by Eric Metcalfe)
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50882
Description: video performer for Eric. Photo: Kate Craig
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Date Made: 1980
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Unfit for Paradise
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50883
Description: Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Ric Amis. Based on book by Susan Swan, a cabaret-style performance about North Americans vacationing in 3rd world countries.
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Date Made: 1983
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
My Wireless is Running
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50884
Description: Collaboration with Colin Campbell; Winchester Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Colin Campbell. Campbell and Dragu explore guilt and implied guilt by using the famous alleged euthanasia pediatric nurses' case from Children's Hospital as a launching point.
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Date Made: 1984
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X’s and O’s in the Dead of Winter
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50887
Description: Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta. With live performance by long distance telephone from Colin Campbell; a feminist look at urban fear and angst - virtual, implied, actual and imagined.
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Date Made: 1985
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
X’s and O’s in the Dead of Winter
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50886
Description: Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta. With live performance by long distance telephone from Colin Campbell; a feminist look at urban fear and angst - virtual, implied, actual and imagined.
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Date Made: 1985
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X’s and O’s in the Dead of Winter
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50889
Description: Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta. With live performance by long distance telephone from Colin Campbell; a feminist look at urban fear and angst - virtual, implied, actual and imagined.
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Date Made: 1985
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
X’s and O’s in the Dead of Winter
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50885
Description: Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta. With live performance by long distance telephone from Colin Campbell; a feminist look at urban fear and angst - virtual, implied, actual and imagined.
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Date Made: 1985
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
X’s and O’s in the Dead of Winter
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50888
Description: Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta. With live performance by long distance telephone from Colin Campbell; a feminist look at urban fear and angst - virtual, implied, actual and imagined.
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Date Made: 1985
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
X’s and O’s for the Canadian Pavilion Expo 86
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50890
Description: Canadian Pavilion, Expo 86, Vancouver, British Columbia. Photo: Guy Allen. A ritual dance/music/flag performance about love and pursuit of love examined through Rembetika music lyrics, mandarin ducks, and Groucho Marx.
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Date Made: 1986
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Bardo Gap
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50891
Description: Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia. Photo: Eric Metcalfe
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Date Made: 1994
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Eine Kleine Nacht Radio
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50892
Description: grunt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Date Made: 1999
Materials: video grab
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Living Art
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50894
Description: Cosmo Mall, Richmond, British Columbia. Silhouettes/tableaux vivants in storefront window for bus/car commuters, public/private exploration through classical English/French music hall imagery.
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Date Made: 2000
Materials: video grab
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Conscious Corpus: Corp Domestique & Corpus Delicious
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50893
Description: Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia. May 2000. Exploration of the body using anatomy, kinetics, physiology, languages and technology; part durational installation and part interactive cabaret; a balance of the medical and the erotic.
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Date Made: 2000
Materials: video grab
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Wall is in My Head
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50895
Description: Elle Corazon, Montreal, Quebec, October 2001. Photo: Marie Jose Tremblay. Site-specific performances utilizing silhouette/shadow, slides, dance, music, text, chance, and found objects to investigate nostalgia of the cold war, tyranny of polarity/binary, 'Das Ost-Gefuhl'- longing for the known/east German feeling via the iconographic lesbian performance by Lotte Lenya in From Russia With Love.
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Date Made: 2001
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Fairy Godmother of Stretch
Artist: Margaret Dragu
Work ID: 50896
Description: Richmond City Hall, Richmond, British Columbia
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Date Made: 2002
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