MARCO PRONOVOST
« Creation is a powerful tool for collaboration. It brings together visions, people and dreams around realities to be changed, to be shaped, in order to apply sustainable development principles. »
Photo credit : Hugo B. Lefort
About me
Marco Pronovost is an artist-mediator whose work is described as social art. As a choreographer, director and researcher in performance art, he explores in particular the relationship with the audience. His works challenge the fourth wall by taking place directly in the audience environment or in atypical spaces.
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In 2018, Marco offers a 12-hour performance entitled Let Me Carry Your Sorrow where people are invited to write one of their concerns on their body with the goal of transforming them into a living work of art. Also a curator, mediator, consultant, teacher, and lecturer, he is one of the few scholars who address issues of cultural mediation and audience engagement as both an artist and a theorist.
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Marco was named one of five Young Canadian Cultural Innovators by the Canada Council for the Arts in 2017. A Fellow of the Global Salzburg Seminar in Austria, he holds a Master's degree in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland. He is the author of books on cultural mediation and the use of art as a tool for social development (éditions L'Harmattan), and co-edited a book on curating live art (Curating Live Arts) published by Berghahn Books.
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Marco draws strength from the interactions between the different aspects of his artistic and professional life, which feed each other to make possible successful and unique projects.