Tanya Cubric (b.1991 Montréal) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Balkan-Diaspora currently working and living in Melbourne. As someone who has lived in a number of different countries, her practice is very much entangled around her experience of living under different social and cultural contexts. Through using her previous training in tv and theatre she performs satirical characters and creates improvised performances, video works and installations as a way to interrogate power, shame and the narratives we build about our lives.
As someone who has lived in a number of different countries, her practice is very much entangled around her experience of living under different social and cultural contexts and how they can undermine our sense of self. Due to her previous experience of training in theatre and working in film and TV, she often uses performative scenarios, as well as ready-made materials, video and sound, as a way to interrogate the psychological effects of different power structures on our autobiographical narratives.
By embracing playfulness as a form of resistance. i.e. through a lo-fi ready-made aesthetic, improvised performances and the tools of fantasy, humour and seduction, she re-narrativises cultural stereotypes and seeks to expose what we think we know about ourselves and the other.
