Carron Little

she/her/they

Scotland / U.S.

Title: Marigold Marsh (2022)
Photo by Jamie Gannon

Carron Little lives and works in Chicago, USA and is of Scottish heritage. She is the convener of Flow • embody in site, an online public performance symposium created in collabotation with the Out of Site community of artists. Carron organizes Out of Site, a public performance festival that began in 2011. Out of Site has transformed into an international network and platform for public performance art practice.

Carron fuses poetry and performance art practices to create civic engagement projects and participatory public performances with diverse communities. The transformation of public places that have been compromised by systemic violence, institutional racism and sexism informs her long-term commitment to working in public sites as an artist and cultural producer. Carron performs as queen of luxuria, a ‘digital sprite fairy’ who believes in the power of art to transform, empower, and to unite segregated communities.

To date, Carron has presented her performances and artistic work in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland, and Oklahoma in the U.S. and internationally in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, Spain, and Switzerland. Most recently, Carron created a participatory performance project for Ludington, Michigan in Spring 2021 entitled Gie Ben Ilka Gill | To Give In Each Measure. In 2021, she collaborated with Isa Fontbona to produce a public performance on the steps of Girona Cathedral in Spain on July 19, 2021. The piece was inspired by her Spare Rib Revisited poetry collection. She was invited to participate in Intimate Bridges in Athens, Greece by Theater Entropia presenting her work and Out of Site. In October 2021 she was invited to participate in the Research-Creation in Urgent Times Conference curated by Beau Coleman for the Spar2c Research Center at University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada on October 22. And lastly, on January 17, 2022, she was invited to participate in the Lock Unlock Performance Art Project organized by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer - Smith and invited by Beau Coleman.

Carron writes policy on equity, diversity, and inclusion in the arts authoring the 50 | 50 Initiative that was successfully implemented at the College Arts Association in 2020.