Alexis O'Hara

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Alexis O'Hara is a Canadian transdisciplinary performer from Ottawa who now lives in Montreal. Since 1997 she has been active in Montreal’s cabaret and experimental music scenes. She ran the Montreal poetry slam for several years before focusing on vocal and electronic music and interactive performance projects. Her works like Subject to Change and The Sorrow Sponge involve audience participation and electronic clothing, and have toured Canada, the United Kingdom, and Belgium. Her art often explores language, anthropomorphism, the brain and heart, and social order. In 2009 she began creating immersive, interactive sound installations. SQUEEEEQUE - SPEAKERDOME, a dome made from recycled speaker boxes, has been shown at media art festivals in Europe and Canada and was the first artwork acquired by Basel’s Haus der Elektronische Kunst. She is a longtime figure in Montreal’s cabaret scene, performing as Guizo LaNuit, a drag king persona she began in 2003. O’Hara frequently collaborates with the Montreal-based duo 2boys.tv, playing a key role in Tightrope (2011–2016).