This will be my third visit to the City of Calgary. My first encounter was when, as a young child, I was driven there from Winnipeg by my Mother and her boyfriend, on a vacation to see my aunt and uncle. My second experience was, as a vagrant hippy teenager, briefly hitch-hiking through town on a road trip to attend a party in Vancouver.
For M:ST, I offer three short vignettes re-creating these memories.
Randy Gledhill (Canada) has a Canadian and International history of artistic recognition spanning over three decades. His canon blurs boundaries to describe a chameleon oeuvre through a plethora of activities including performance, installation, public art commission, video, sculpture, critical writing, curation and cultural activism. His ground breaking collaborative partnerships in Randy & Berenicci enjoy a rare precedent of accolade and influence. He is currently Executive Director and Curator of Vancouver’s LIVE Performance Art Biennale; and is researching new global performance art manifestations, movements, and networks. His current artistic endeavors include periodically performing internationally as ‘Princess Randy’.
