In the context of Concordia University's ARTH 398S, here's a rough outline of my artist (lol) bio:
BIO
Jordan
Arseneault is active in Montréal’s non-commercial independent
queer performance scene. Co-producing Radical Queer Semaine’s
STALLE performance revue in March 2010-2012, and the much-acclaimed
Cabaret Faux Pas at Café Cleopatra for Pervers/cité in August 2010
with Laura Boo MacDonald, Jordan has been actively performing in the
domestic Cabaret Faux Pas since 2009 with “Resist Conscription,”
a piece which was later performed in Cambridge, Mass. at Aliza
Shapiro’s Traniwreck (truthserum productions). He was invited to
present his piece “First World Problems” in a curated show for
Studio 303’s Cabaret SPARK, and has hosted and programmed the sex
worker solidarity show “Dénonçons la violence” for Chez
Stella on Dec. 17Th, 2010, and has had the pleasure of
hosting 3 Meow Mix cabarets in his Peaches Lepage persona. How to
Build a Fire Queer Sans Fin Convergence (Jan 2011), a
community-oriented performance project presented in collaboration
with Damien Luxe, Silas Howard, and Laura MacDonald, was his most
recent undertaking (more info at www.thedutymyth.blogspot.com
). In 2012, he was the moderator for the Concordia HIV/AIDS lecture
given by researcher Barry Adam, and gave a workshop to students in
Art-x on anti-institutional art practice.
Often performing under the stage names
Aïda Cökenbalz, Peaches Lepage, or Tooloose LeTrick, for various
benefit shows and cabarets (Faggity Ass Fridays, Up Yours!, 2boys.tv,
and Glam Gam Productions), he is a collaboration addict, replacing
his other addictions with that of performance starting with 2008's
Girl Gang Thank-You Card (with video collaboration by Jessica
MacCormack). In 2011-2012, he was part of a collective piece entitled
Tightrope, wherein he joined
Montréal performance artists 2boy.tv
for shows at Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times, and for the Triennale of
the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. He spends his time
as an editor, translator, facilitator, organizer and MC in Montréal.
