Bio
Elizabeth Milton is a Vancouver-based performance and media artist who utilizes character-play to investigate constructions of identity and affective expression.
Exploring the performative experience of inhabiting fictional personas, Milton adopts characters scripted by the heightened fantasies and garish excesses of popular culture as well as the more intimate landscape of her daily life. Often involving amateur and professional performers, her video and photo-based works aim to critically investigate the possibilities and tensions inherent in collaboration.
Throughout her practice participants have included: family members, actors, hypnotists, psychiatrists, students, musicians and fellow artists. Drawing from acting methods, psychoanalytic theory and comedy, her work explores how strategies of self-transformation may be used to challenge and articulate the distorted sense of reality that consumes our culture of simulation.
Milton holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of British Columbia (2007) and a BFA in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University (2003). She instructs courses in Studio Art at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and Langara College in Vancouver, BC.