Biography  

Livia Daza-Paris is a Venezuelan-Canadian transdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Québec. She has degrees in Community Economic Development and in Digital Technologies and Design Art from Concordia University, as well as an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute (accredited by the University of Plymouth, UK). She is also a certified teacher in the Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT). Her writings appear in journals such as Performance Research, VIS NORDIC and Project Anywhere.

Livia Daza-Paris' practice is multi-pronged, encompassing performance, video, text, installation, participatory processes, and documentary evidence. Her work develops frameworks imbued in attunement methods and felt experiences to investigate nonofficial histories in Cold War-era Venezuela, especially in regards to political disappearance. Her practice-led art research project Poetic Forensics deals with 'the processing and interpreting of primary sources, personal essays, archival materials and poetic testimony to create textual and moving-image counter-narratives to official history' (Daza-Paris). Her work has been featured in the solo exhibitions The Wounded Tree (SBC Gallery, Montréal, 2023) and On the Steps of Antigone: A Proposal by Livia Daza-Paris (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela, 2015). She has also participated in the collective exhibitions Museum of the Art of Today/Department of the Invisible (Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, 2022); Un dos tres por mí y mis compañeras (Optica centre d'art contemporain, Montréal, 2020); Grieving Empire (A Space Gallery, Toronto, 2017); Tracking or Toward the Discovery of our World or Untitled (articule gallery, Montréal, 2016); Transformers: Coiled Potentials (Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, 2012), among others.