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Christof Migone

((he/him))

Associate Professor

Visual Arts

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  • Associate Professor
    Visual Arts

BIO

Christof Migone, an artist, curator and writer, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. His work and research delve into language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity and endurance. Migone earned an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007. 

Among his works are co-edited anthologies Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, and Volumes. He has curated numerous exhibitions and events, performed at music festivals worldwide. His installations have been exhibited at the many festivals and galleries.  A monograph on his work, Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montreal presented a mid-career survey of his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD entitled Trou. A book compiling his writings on sound art, Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body was published in 2012 by Errant Bodies Press.

Migone has been the recipient of commissions from the Tate Modern, Dazibao, Kunstradio, Centre for Art Tapes, New Adventures in Sound Art, Radio Canada, New American Radio. He is a founding member of Avatar (Québec City). With Alexandre St-Onge he runs Squint Press. He recently was a recipient of the Glenfiddich Artist Residency with Marla Hlady. He is currently curating a 12-year event titled You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death.