Internationally acclaimed, Montreal-born, New York-based artist Miles Greenberg debuts a new durational performance in Walker Court.

In this day-long performance, inspired by first-person fighting video games, Greenberg wields a weapon. His opponent—an imaginary foe—is located directly behind a robot-mounted camera. On a mirrored stage littered with the silicone replicas of the artist himself, he will perform to exhaustion. The piece includes text by Canadian writer Jordan Tannahill. Visitors are encouraged to come and go as they please.
 

Read the RESPAWN Curatorial Statement. 

Join us for Miles Greenberg in Conversation on June 7. 

 
Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada) is a performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive, and site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. Rigorous and ritualistic in its methodology, Greenberg’s universe relies on slowness and the decay of form to heighten the audience’s sensitivities.

Greenberg has worked under the mentorship of Édouard Lock, Robert Wilson, and Marina Abramović, and has been an artist in residence at La Manutention at Palais de Tokyo (2019), and The Watermill Center Residency, NY (2017 & 2018) among others. His exhibition history includes The Southbank Centre, (London), The Louvre (Paris), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), The New Museum (New York), Pace Gallery (New York) and more. Greenberg’s work has also been included in numerous international art surveys, including the Athens Biennial, BoCA Lisbon, the Bangkok Art Biennale, and most recently, La Biennale de Venezia.

This work is co-commissioned and co-presented by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Luminato Festival Toronto.

Programming Partner

Luminato Festival Toronto

Miles Greenberg RESPAWN at the AGO is generously supported by

The Schulich Foundation

Miles Greenberg RESPAWN for Luminato Festival Toronto is generously supported by

Partners in Art

Delta Air Lines

Miles Greenberg RESPAWN production support courtesy of

PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art