Contributor

Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan is a curator and doctoral candidate in Performance Studies at York University. Her work as a scholar and curator broadly examines contemporary performance projects that respond to issues surrounding borderlands, space, disposability, and disappearance throughout the Hemispheric Americas. Her research and teaching live at the intersection of critical cultural studies and performance theory and she engages with embodied and creative pedagogies as practices of transformation and progressive change. Shalon recently curated an online exhibition at Vtape in Toronto entitled love as rupturous as I know it to be and was Curator-in-Residence at the Curatorial Lab @ Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology (2019-2020) where she is also a Research Associate. She has worked with Toronto’s 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art as well as grunt gallery in Vancouver and is currently writer-in-residence for the project PUSH.PULL: Intersections of QTBIPOC Cabaret and Performance Art. Other writing has recently appeared in Peripheral Review, Performance Matters, and LabCritica*.