Alexis O'Hara

Alexis O'Hara is a Canadian transdiciplinary performer,[1] born in Ottawa and currently living and working in Montreal.

Since 1997, she has been active in the Montreal cabaret and experimental music scenes. O'Hara ran the Montreal poetry slam for several years before switching her focus to vocal and electronic music and interactive performance projects. Subject to Change and The Sorrow Sponge, two projects in which audience participation and electronic clothing are elements,[2] have toured Canada, the United Kingdom and Belgium. Her live and recorded work concerns itself with language, anthropomorphism, the human brain and heart and social order.

In 2009, she began working on immersive, interactive sound installations. SQUEEEEQUE - The Improbable Igloo,[3] an igloo built entirely from recycled speakerboxes, was presented at numerous media art festivals in Europe and Canada. The work was the first acquisition to Basel's Haus der Elektronische Kunst's media art collection.

Her eclectic live work attracts programmers from a variety of disciplines from Live Art to experimental music to spoken word. Her live engagements include the National Review of Live Art, transmediale, FIMAV, and Festival Voix d'Amériques. She has shared bills with a diverse array of artists including Diamanda Galás, Henri Chopin, Ursula Rucker and TV on the Radio.

She currently has two musical performance projects with the interdisciplinary artist Stephen Lawson, 10,000 Horses, a sister act that shines sonic light on the undervalued triumphs of feminine figures and GuiGi, the world's only drag king/drag queen medley band.

Alexis is the niece of actress/comedian Catherine O'Hara and singer, composer and artist Mary Margaret O'Hara.

Discography

References

  1. ↑ http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/edgy-women-has-reached-the-brink
  2. ↑ http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/collaborating-with-the-accidental-alexis-o%E2%80%99hara-and-the-art-of-improvisation/
  3. ↑ http://canadianart.ca/news/oaag-awards/


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