Megan Arnold (she/they) is a Filipinx-Canadian artist residing in Guelph, ON where she works as a sessional instructor at a university and a server at a restaurant. She is a member of the Board of Directors at Ed Video Media Arts Centre, a music show host on 93.3 CFRU, and organizer/host of the experimental works-in-progress open mic event Trial Runners. They have participated in residencies in Ontario, Newfoundland, the UK, and Iceland. Megan obtained a BFA from the University of Western Ontario and an MFA at the University of Guelph. Recently, she has presented work at LIVE Biennale (Vancouver, BC), Chopped Liver Comedy (Toronto, ON), PINCH Cabaret (Waterloo, ON), and Eastern Edge (St. John’s, NF). Their favourite activity used to be karaoke, but now it might be lying down.
Megan Arnold is an artist who wants to make you laugh and cry and cringe. She makes affective performances, videos, pop songs, and drawings that collapse the divisions between humour/pathos, amateurism/mastery, play/labour, and art/entertainment. Megan uses humour as a coping mechanism to deal with anxiety in the face of an impending apocalypse. Much of their practice is rooted in cabaret and bar entertainment, which is the great irony of their life as someone who likes to go to bed at 9pm. Current research interests include performance studies, humour studies, queer theory, dogs, divination, and love.
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