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Paul Couillard
Paul Couillard has been working as an artist, curator, and organizer since 1985, focusing on performance art with forays into theatre, writing, holography, installation, film and video. He has been the performance art curator for Fado since its inception in 1993, and is also a founding co-curator of the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival. Over the years he has worked as a programmer or director for various artist-run centres, including SAW Gallery, Gallery 101, Canadian Film Makers Distribution Centre, the Photon League of Holographers and A Space. As an artist, he has created well over 100 solo and collaborative performance works on four continents, often working with his partner Ed Johnson. He is also the editor of Fado's CANADIAN PERFORMANCE ART LEGENDS publication series. He is currently editing a book on the work of Tanya Mars that will be published in 2006.