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Victoria Carrasco is a Chilean-Canadian curator of contemporary art and moving image, born in Montréal. From 2008 to 2025, she held curatorial, managerial, and leadership positions at PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art), where she played a key role in shaping the institution’s visitor experience strategy, developing internal professional growth initiatives, curating exhibitions, and expanding audiences by creating new exhibition formats of time-based media and performances programs.
Her curatorial practice is grounded in research and centers on practices in contemporary art, developed through close collaboration with artists. Her institutional experience reinforces an expertise of exhibition-making and the dynamics between artwork, space, and audience—emphasizing accessibility, engagement, and critical reflection. She remains attuned to the social, cultural, and spatial contexts in which art is produced and experienced, and is committed to its critical and transformative potential that lives on after outside of the art gallery setting.
Carrasco curated REMEMBER, PERFORM, FORGET: Binding Space Through Utopia - with Kerstin Honeit, The Society of Affective Archives, and Rodolfo Andaur in 2023, co-curated with Cheryl Sim, the exhibition Larry Achiampong: Relic Traveller in 2022, the performance Dora García: Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years in 2021, and have worked with international, national and local artists in Montreal and organizations on the presentation of screenings and performances, moderated roundtables, and hosted artist talks and podcasts.
Carrasco holds an MA in Performance Curation from the Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University, a BA in Environmental Design from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and a BFA with a Concentration in Photography from Concordia University. In 2019, she was awarded the Ford Foundation ICPP Leadership Fellowship by Wesleyan University. She is also co-editor of the bi-annual publication TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation and is on the Board of Directors of VIVA! Art Action and Centre des arts actuels SKOL.
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Née à Montréal, Victoria Carrasco est une commissaire canadienne d’origine chilienne. De 2008 à 2025, elle a occupé les postes de commissaire, de gestion et leadership à PHI (anciennement Fondation PHI pour l'art contemporain), où elle a joué un rôle clé dans l'élaboration de la stratégie d'expérience des visiteurs de l'institution, la création d'initiatives de développement professionnel interne, le commissariat d'expositions et l'élargissement des publics par le développement de nouveaux formats d'exposition de programmes de médias temporels et performances.
Sa pratique curatoriale est ancrée dans la recherche et se concentre sur les pratiques de l'art contemporain, développées en étroite collaboration avec des artistes. Son expérience institutionnelle renforce son expertise en réalisation d'expositions et la dynamique entre l'œuvre d'art, l'espace et le public, privilégiant l'accessibilité, l'engagement et la réflexion critique. Elle demeure à l'écoute des contextes sociaux, culturels et spatiaux dans lesquels l'art est produit et expérimenté, et s'attache à son potentiel critique et transformateur qui perdure au-delà du cadre des galeries d'art.
Carrasco a été commissaire de SE SOUVENIR, PERFORMER, OUBLIER: relier l’espace par l’utopie - avec Kerstin Honeit, La Société des archives affectives (Fiona Annis and Véronique La Perrière M) et Rodolfo Andaur en 2023, co-commissaire avec Cheryl Sim de l'exposition Larry Achiampong: L’explorateur de reliques en 2022 et de la performance Dora García: Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years en 2021. Elle a également collaboré avec des artistes et des organismes internationaux, nationaux et locaux à Montréal pour la présentation de projections et de performances, animé des tables rondes et animé des conférences et des balados.
Elle est titulaire d’une maîtrise en commissariat de la performance de l’Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) de l'Université Wesleyan, d’un baccalauréat en design de l’environnement de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) et d’un baccalauréat en beaux-arts avec concentration en photographie de l’Université Concordia. En 2019, l’Université Wesleyan lui a décerné la bourse de Leadership ICPP de la Fondation Ford. Elle est également co-éditrice de la publication semestrielle TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation et siège au conseil d'administration de VIVA! Art Action et du Centre des arts actuels SKOL.
Stretching the Unison
a performance organized by Adam Kinner with Erin Hill, Naomi McCarroll-Butler and Frédérique Roy.
September. 4, 2024, PHI Foundation.
Image: Adam Kinner
Stretching the Unison is a performance organized by Adam Kinner, featuring Erin Hill, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, and Frédérique Roy.
To play together, to feel time and pitch from the same position, to be in unison, is one of the foundations of musical performance. And yet, how together we actually are, in general or in a particular passage, is a matter of perspective, positionality, and context. What may seem to be unison at one moment can appear disjointed at another. Unison in music can be thought of as the feeling of listening to another that is also oneself, with all the misrecognition and disidentification inherent in such a formulation.
Adam Kinner, an artist who works across performance, music, and dance, has invited three artists—Erin Hill, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, and Frédérique Roy—to play music with him that focuses on the question of unison and its limits. While the music proceeds from a desire to be together, to blanket one another in the warmth of each other’s tone, it also readily gives in to the limits of this togetherness and the desire to flee when you hear yourself reflected back. In the resonant space of the PHI Foundation, the artists will stretch the unison until it breaks, or holds them together.
Concept: Adam Kinner
Invitation and curation: Victoria Carrasco
This program was conceived and presented by PHI (formerly known as PHI Foundation).
Biographies
Erin HillErin Hill is a dance artist, writer, and birth support practitioner. Erin’s field of research constellates cyclicality and notions of time, and figures magic as an embodied form of translation where notions of congruence and consent can be fleshed out. Through observational practices, she seeks alternatives to alignments of linearity, building relations with ecological protagonists such as the sun (Sunrise Commitment, 2018) and weather (Deep Gazing, 2020). Erin holds a Master’s from DAS Theatre (formerly DasArts) in Amsterdam, and will begin a PhD in Humanities at Concordia University in autumn 2024. Erin makes home as a settler in Tiotiàh:ke.
Adam KinnerAdam Kinner is an artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, originally from the area around Washington, D.C. He works provisionally and across forms, taking a research-based, improvisatory and collaborative approach, often working with artists from dance and music. His work takes the form of concerts, writings, exhibitions, stage works, and in situ performances. Recent projects have been shown at the Musée d’art de Joliette, the Foreman Art Gallery (Sherbrooke), Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow), PuSH International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides (Saint-Jérôme), the Art Gallery of York University (Toronto), Regart (Lévis), Artexte (Montréal), and Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montréal). With the artist Christopher Willes, he co-created MANUAL in 2022, a one-on-one performance in a public library that toured extensively in the UK, Canada, and Japan. In 2023, an experimental feature-length documentary film he created with director Olivier Godin premiered in Lisbon and then played in Spain and extensively in Québec. As a musician, he has played on countless albums and soundtracks, collaborating with artists like Leif Vollebekk, Suuns, and Tune-Yards, to name but a few. Along with Jacob Wren, he co-directs the orchestra The Air Contains Honey. His writing has been published in FENCE (New York), The Capilano Review (Vancouver) and Cigale (Montreal). Adam holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Naomi McCarroll-ButlerNaomi McCarroll-Butler is a saxophonist, clarinetist, and instrument maker based in Montréal and Toronto. She is interested in the elegance of the overtone series, breathwork in the unique somatic journey of trans and gender-non-conforming people, and the creation of trance environments through drone, repetition, and fluid tuning systems. An active collaborator, Naomi plays with Jeremy Dutcher, The Queer Songbook Orchestra, Pinksnail, Colin Fisher, Liberté-Anne Lymberiou, Germaine Liu, Juliet Palmer, Labyrinth Ensemble, Karen Ng, and many others. Her work as a composer and improviser has been featured by the Canadian Music Centre, POP Montréal, Women From Space Festival, The Music Gallery, and the Guelph Jazz Festival. The Toronto Jazz Festival selected Naomi as the inaugural recipient of the Immersive Artist in Residence program in 2022, commissioning her to write and perform a piece for a 13-piece large ensemble.
Frédérique RoyFrédérique Roy is a musician, composer, and writer. The debut album of her ensemble Lune très belle was released by Wild Silence (France), and her first collection of poems was published by l’Oie de Cravan (Montréal). Her second album, Ovale, came out on Boiled Records (Toronto) in 2023. She collaborates with musicians, choreographers and writers in various settings and has presented work in Mexico, Toronto, Victoriaville (FIMAV), and Montréal (OFFTA, Dazibao, Suoni per Il Popolo, POP Montréal). She plays with Splendide Abysse, The Air Contains Honey orchestra, Stone Bonnets Choir, House of Gold (SOFA Label), Eugénie Jobin, Gabriel Drolet, and others. Frédérique has also been involved in concert programming, zine publishing, and vocal and somatic workshopping. She works in psycho-social accompaniment for Club Ami, a day center offering alternative resources to psychiatrized people.