Angles of Consequence

The Angles of Consequence team gather to announce their forthcoming season of site-specific performances with reflected sunlight, a creative form of climate accountability.  Learn about these complex artists and their fascinating investigations into sunlight, leading to live performances in June! 

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Sabina Gámez 

Sabina Gámez is an audiovisual artist currently pursuing her MFA in Intermedia at Concordia University (CA). She holds a Bachelor of Arts, focused on electronic media, with a minor in biology from Universidad de Los Andes (COL, 2018).Her research and artistic practice explore the experience of embodiment and how the body is perceived and recontextualized in digital media and the environment. She creates video collages, video installations, and video performances using different formats and approaches to audiovisual media, including chroma key and Virtual Reality to examine themes of self, self-recognition, and remnants in digital media. She is interested in studying the body and its interactions with external phenomena, creating installations where the subject is transformed, re-contextualized, and its corporeality is explored in relation to the environment.Her most recent research investigates the multi-dimensional role of the sun, examining its geopolitical, social, and environmental implications. She explores alternative practices inspired by the sun, adopting a Symbiocene approach that emphasizes a positive revaluation of our relationship with the world and its influence on human and ecological systems. Her work is informed by Solarpunk theories framing solar energy as a guide to re-evaluate pressing climate and social crises. Her work has been exhibited in Colombia, Mexico, South Korea, and Canada.

Lucy Fandel

Lucy Fandel is a dance artist and cultural mediator in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. She grew up in Concord, MA (USA) and Beaulieu sur Mer (France) before studying dance and sociology at Concordia University. She likes places where water and wind circulate in strong currents. Through choreography, performance, teaching and writing, she explores how to connect to the poetry of movement within ourselves and in the world around us. Lucy has the pleasure of collaborating and dancing with artists including Allison Moore, Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux, Nickle Peace-Williams and the collectives Daughter Product and As They Strike, among others. She is active in her community as an artistic advisor, journalist for The Dance Current, co-founder of Nous Sommes L’Été, an organization supporting the creative development of emerging artists, curator and coordinator of cultural projects in multiple disciplines

Isabella Leone

Isabella Leone is a performance maker, director and theatre designer. She is of settler descent and grew up on Syilx Okanagan territory in British Columbia. She has been based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal for ten years. Her work is guided by collaboration and experimentation, playing at the intersections of dance, puppetry, video, performance art, and installation. Through her practice, she fosters close attention to the worlds she inhabits, while threading together the realms of abstraction and the imaginary into things deemed known. Her work has been presented in OFFTA, Articule, RIPA, and Concordia’s Art Matters Festival and VAV Gallery. She has trained and interned with companies such as Big Dance Theater (NY), Theater Mitu (NY), Porte Parole (QC) and Bread and Puppet Theater (VT). She holds a BFA in Theatre and Development from Concordia University.Leone’s work has received generous support from the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts.  

Oriana Confente

Oriana Confente is a writer and maker-of-things based in Tiohti:áke / Mooniyang / Montréal. Confente completed a Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Communication Design at the University of Waterloo (Canada), where they began developing research-creation projects. They continue to be research-driven while exploring concepts connected to postnatural ecologies and sustainable practices, with particular interest in more-than-human entanglements. Their interdisciplinary work has been exhibited in Canada, Europe, and published in open-access journals. In 2024, Confente earned a Canada Council for the Arts grant.

Bastik

Bastik (b. 1997) began her artistic practice at the young age of 4, as a student of Kay Tiga in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Practicing the “Artistic Rotation” method by roaming freely from ink to paint and clay; blurring the boundaries between mediums quickly became second nature to her. Today relocated in Tiohti:áke / Mooniyang / Montreal, she is a mechanical engineer and multidisciplinary artist exploring themes of connection, identity, as well as Haitian visual cultures of nature through a multitude of mediums.

Mila Figuet

Mila Figuet is a performance artist and cultural worker based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her work bridges activism and art-making, with a focus on developing strategies to raise awareness about gender-based violence and building tools for collective protest and healing.She creates spaces and situations where the body—often the primary site of such violence—plays a central role and multiple voices resonate, interweaving personal experiences with the testimonies of the communities she engages with.She holds a BFA in Intermedia (Video, Performance, and Electronic Arts) from Concordia University. She is also self-taught in archival practices, using them to challenge dominant historical narratives by documenting and making visible stories, experiences, and perspectives that have been under-represented or erased in conventional history. Combining this tool with oral history methods and elements of narrative experimentation, she builds a language halfway between documentary and fiction.She has collaborated with cultural institutions such as Dazibao, Vidéographe, Eastern Bloc, Artch, and La Centrale.

Angles of Consequence is based in LePARC, the Performing Arts Research Cluster in the Milieux Institute at Concordia University, and is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.  

Meghan Moe Beitiks 

Meghan Moe Beitiks (Artistic Director/Principal Investigator) is an artist working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure.  They analyze perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and their own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human.  They were a Fulbright Student Fellow, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. They exhibited her work at the I-Park Environmental Art Biennale, Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery in Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the House of Artists in Moscow, and other locations in California, Chicago, Australia and the UK. They received their BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre (of/and/with/Sustainable Performance Design) at Concordia University.

Christine White

Christine White (Graduate Research Assistant) is completing her master’s degree in Art Education at Concordia University in support of her socially engaged art practice. She has received many awards and fellowships for her work with PedalBox Gallery such as the Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts Award in 2021, the Concordia Undergraduate Research Award in 2022 and was a semifinalist in the 2023 provincial wide university competition, Forces Avenir. In the summer of 2023 Christine received both the Peter N. Thomson Family Field School Award and Quebec Mobility Grant to develop her intermedia based practice at the host institution, CCMAS (Mexican Centre for Music and Sound Art) in Morelia, Michoacán where she developed and performed Home Of Birds/Hogar de las avesan, an acousmatic soundscape accompanied by experimental video disintegration

Zoë Heffring

Zoë Heffring (she/her) (Undergraduate Research Assistant) is in her final year of Scenography at Concordia University. Her work is based in design, music, writing and performance. She is inspired by chance encounters, serendipity, coincidences, conversations, and the palpable, potential energy that exists in everything around us. In 2024 Zoë received the Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts award to work as an assistant designer with the 7 Fingers on their project “Le Géante”. In 2023 she also received the Peter N. Thomson Family Field School Award to attend the Prague Quadrennial in which she contributed to an installation representing Canadian Universities as well as designed a public performance in the space. Beyond her work and studies in the Fine Arts, Zoë has 5 years of experience as a research assistant at McGill University in the Faculty of Law, exploring how through taxation we might find ways to hold major polluters accountable for their impact on communities and the climate.

Alexia Maldonado-Juarez

Alexia Maldonado-Juarez (Undergraduate Research Assistant) is a Mexico-Japanese artist based in Montreal, Tiohtià:ke. She is currently completing a double major in Intermedia: Video, Performance & Electronic Arts and Acting for the Theater in Concordia University. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is based in performance, video arts and painting. Her work is often inspired by her own identity and modern-day social issues. She aspires to, through her love of mixing the unconventional, inspire her own communities. In 2021 she was awarded Best Experimental Film in Dawson’s Arts, Letters and Culture Festival and was nominated again in 2022. She is currently working as a facilitator and a consultant for MBC Production’s Theatre of the Oppressed workshop.

Milena Pereira

Milena Pereira is a circus and dance artist. Currently, she is a PhD student, through a cotutelle arrangement, in both the Humanities Program at Concordia University and the Performing Arts Program at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Her research explores the understanding and practice of virtuosity in contemporary circus and dramaturgy in the performing arts. She has been involved in creating in various spaces and formats, ranging from the traditional stage to public spaces, rural settlements, and video performances.