Born in Montréal in 1970,
Marc Couroux has
been acclaimed as one of the leading artists of his
generation. His work has been centered on the reinvention and
renewal of the audience-performer dialectic, challenging the
received and seldom questioned notion of the performer’s
physical presence within the sociopolitical confines of the
public event. He believes that public performance is already
an inherently political act from which follows a striking
series of works committed to reclaiming a critical function
for art in society. His work as a whole is concerned with
exploring the potential of art as a motor for social
investigation, in which the properties of the work itself,
employing the perceptual and cultural prejudices of the
viewer as prime material, enables the creation of a
subversive art.