Sylvette Babin

Sylvette Babin holds a Masters degree in Open Media from Concordia University, Montreal City, where she lives and works. She has been working in performance since 1997. Sylvette has participated in a number of artistic events in Canada and overseas, notably Live Art Göteborg (2010), Chaos, Belfast (2010), Praxis, Greece (2009), 7a*11d, Toronto (2008), InfrAction 07 and Préavis de désordre urbain, Sète & Marseille (2007), Viva!, Montreal (2006), SOS Tierra, Argentina (2006), International Congress of Performance, Chile (2005), FIX04, Belfast (2004) and Festival Interackje, Poland (2004). Particularly interested in contextual art and site-specific work, her performances and installations propose metaphors related to certain physical emotional states, using strategies and devices that involve the body, absurd situations or visual and sound play.

Also working as a writer, editor and curator, Sylvette has published in numerous journals, catalogues and artists books. She has worked as the director of the magazine esse arts + opinions since 2002. In 2008 she curated the Canadian selection of InfrAction 08 in France and in 2009 she co-curated the international event Orange in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada.