Artist information

Shannon Cochrane is a Toronto-based artist and performer. Her performance work has been presented in galleries, at theatre and performance art festival events in Toronto, Montréal, Halifax and Vancouver, and internationally in China, Chilé, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and USA. Shannon is a founding member, co-curator and organizer of the 7a*11 International Festival of Performance Art, is currently the Artistic + Administrative Director of FADO Performance Art Centre, and is a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Total Art Journal, an on-line magazine focusing on performance and live art practices.

7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art: www.7a-11d.ca
FADO Performance Art Centre: www.performanceart.ca
Total Art Journal: www.totalartjournal.com
Performance documentation here: Shannon Cochrane’s photosets on Flickr

Message to Japan

Dear Tōhoku, Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, Shikoku and all people of Japan,
Thank you for trusting the artists in the ‘Field Trip Project’ with your experience and your story.  As items from the 2011 disaster wash up onto the shores of Canada and the USA, you teach us that we are all connected.  The Love Letters Project is inspired by compassion and care for our fellow human beings.  We can all learn from the lotus that grows out of the mud to blossom into a beautiful, jewel-like bloom.
Sending love to you around the world,

Selena Lee

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Selena Lee is passionate about communications, creativity, and exploring well-being. She has worked at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, the Centre of Circlewisdom, and was a guest curator at the Images Festival in 2012. In her spare time, she enjoys being at the beach, trying new foods and doing hot yoga.

Message to Japan

My support is with you. Stay strong. Keep going.

Artist information

Scott Rogers is a Canadian visual artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. He recently completed his MFA at the Glasgow School of Art, and has also attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt as part of Simon Starling’s class. Exhibitions including Scott’s work have taken place at FalseFront (Portland, US), St Paul St Gallery (Auckland, NZ), National Glass Centre (Sunderland, UK, as part of the AV Festival), Liverpool John Moores University (as part of the AND Festival), PM Galerie (Berlin, DE), The Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, CA), The Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton, CA) and the Soap Factory (Minneapolis, US). In 2013 Scott will be the Gordon MFA Graduate Fellow at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

Recently, Scott exhibited the solo exhibition Meanders Into Nonesuch Place, at the Odd Gallery in Dawson City, Yukon. In fall 2012 Scott will be part of a three-person exhibition at the University of Moncton. As a member of the Arbour Lake Sghool he will present a lecture at Institutions by Artists (a conference organized by Fillip Journal in Vancouver in October).