The overlapping threads of Victoria Stanton’s practice – as an artist, researcher and educator – place observation and dialogue at the centre of her undisciplined performative works. Stanton co-authored two books (Impure, Reinventing the Word, conundrum press, 2001, with Vincent Tinguely, and The 7^th Sense/Le 7^e sens, SAGAMIE édition d’art, 2017, with the TouVA collective) and has published a number of articles focusing on the performative as it is revealed in material and time-based practices. She has presented performances/relational actions, exhibitions, and videos in Quebec, Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, Mexico, and Cuba, and in 2018 was a recipient of the Prix Powerhouse, a biennial recognition award for women-identified artists at the mid-stage in their career who have contributed in a significant way to Montréal’s cultural landscape. In 2020 She began a research-creation PhD in Art Education at Concordia University, exploring “Doing Nothing” as a creative vehicle in artistic process through examining the role of rest, pause, slowness, and the interval in both performance art/artworld contexts & everyday spaces like the (art) classroom, and in 2022 was awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to support her research. In the context of the PhD program, Stanton co-founded The Bureau of Noncompetitive Research, a collective of varying geometries that questions the relationship between work and rest, labour and art, pedagogy and slow philosophy.