Julie Lassonde

Originally from Montreal, Julie Lassonde is a performance artist in the visual and media arts. Their work mixes art and justice, including subjects such as gender, intimacy, embodiment, socio-legal norms affecting daily life, permission, (im)balance, self-care, discomfort, freedom and state power. Trained in corporeal mime school, she presented solo performances and improvisations across Canada and internationally. They also studied law at McGill University. She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Barreau du Québec. In 2006, they were awarded the Law and Society Graduate Fellowship and an interdisciplinary master’s degree in law and the visual arts at the University of Victoria. She received the Innovative Electronic Theses & Dissertations Award from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations for her thesis, in Sweden, in 2007. Julie co-edited the book Collision: Interarts Practice and Research in 2008. In 2014-2015, they were an artist in residence at Osgoode Hall Law School. In 2022, she presented a work at the 7a*11d festival in Toronto. In 2015-2016, they were Chair of Le Labo in Toronto. Her work has been supported by the Ontario and Canada arts councils.