Sarah Wendt and Pascal Dufaux share an art practice that takes form in sculpture, media art, installation and dance. Their first work “Strange mood and dissonant feelings”, in 2017, is a video-installation performance that explores the memory and perception of a dancing body in front of a live archive of its gestures. It was presented at Mois Multi in Quebec City, Flotilla in Charlottetown, P.E.I. and in Montreal, at OFFTA and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
In 2018, they developed “The mountain moves while my fingernails grow”, a speculative fable about the relationship between ephemeral human temporality and the depths of geological time. This material became a solo exhibition at Axenéo7 in 2019 and at The Rooms, the Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2022, and a filmic choreographic work produced at Tangente Danse in 2021 and presented in several contexts, including at Take Me Somewhere festival, Glasgow, UK.
Hétérotopias, a work for two dancers, live sound and moving sculpture, was presented in multiple contexts including on Mount Royal for OFFTA, and at the Festival Furies in Marsoui, QC, in 2022.
Their work “Ectoplasmic Studies” was shown at the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides in 2021 and was then developed as a solo show at l’Écart in Rouyn-Noranda in 2023.
Recently, they were invited as co-researchers to explore tactility and accessibility in the performing arts in collaboration with the ongoing project [in]operabilities, at Theatre Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany.
They live and work in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal.