Victoria Stanton is an interdisciplinary performance artist and researcher/curator/educator, who has presented performances and infiltrating/relational actions in innumerable festivals and events, participated in several residencies, as well as exhibited interdisciplinary/performance-based installation work, and screenings of videos & films, in Quebec, Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, Mexico and Cuba.

Her first book Impure, Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice and Oral History of Spoken Word in Montreal (conundrum press, 2001), co-authored with Vincent Tinguely, chronicled a vibrant artistic movement via interviews with over 75 artists, while her second book, The 7th Sense/Le 7e Sens: Practicing Dialogues/ Practicing Workshops/Practicing the Daily Performative/ Practicing Performance Art, co-authored with the TouVA collective draws upon a profound exploration of “the performative” in performance art (SAGAMIE édition d’art, 2017).

Considered a pioneer of transactional practices in Quebec, she has facilitated several workshops, instructing and coaching professional artists at various levels of their careers, BFA and MFA students as well as educators from various disciplines, developing a unique pedagogy that combines theory and praxis via the exploration of the performative encounter, architecture and the body, human geography, infiltrating collective art actions, as well as the micro-event – elements that have become fundamental to her teaching practice.

In 2017-18 Stanton was a P. Lantz Artist-in-Residence in the Faculty of Education at McGill University and in 2018 was a recipient of the PRIX POWERHOUSE, a biennial recognition award that celebrates women-identified artists who have reached the mid-stage in their career and contribute in a significant and sustained way to the cultural life of Montreal.

In 2020 Stanton began a research-creation PhD in Art Education at Concordia University, exploring “Doing Nothing” as a creative vehicle in artistic process through examining the role of rest/pause/interval in both performance art contexts & everyday spaces like the classroom.