Photo by April Manarang
Tess Martens (she/her) graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Master of Fine Art focusing on performance art in 2018. In her art practice, personal experiences are re-contextualized through performances. Between 2019-2020, she traveled and performed in 4 performance residencies in 4 different countries. She worked closely with Marilyn Arsem, La Pocha Nostra, VestAndPage and Andrigo & Aliprandi. She actively performs in Ontario and Quebec; may it be an official performance for festivals, galleries and artist run centers or performing more underground and relying on self to just create!
PINCH ME!
IS THIS REAL?
2024
PINCH CABARET #27
BUTTON FACTORY,
WATERLOO, ONTARIO
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHI DOAN
Tongue Tied, 2024
Trial Runners,
Ed Video,
Guelph, Ontario
Photography by Maddie Lychek
I'M NOT THE RIGHT FIT,
2023,
LEGS Toronto, OCADU, Toronto, Ontario
Photography by Henry Chan
Ode to Katherine, 2023
Gary Kirkham
Bo Bardos
Video: Miles Rufelds
Ode to Katherine,
2022
Video by
José Andres Mora
KROKA: Sasquatch/Big Foot Burlesque
Photos by John McG
BOOB TUBE, 2022
with Brian Schirk and Jonah Strub
Rights of Passage by
Lou Shepherd
Performed with Kingchella
& Warne Burns
Videography
Lou Shepherd,
Michael Maranda &
Sarah
Sound by Pamela Hart
Costumes by
Marley O'Brien
Makeup by
Hally Levy
When We Speak At the Same Time,
We Speak the Same Language, 2022 by
Lauren Prousky
Photos by Lauren Prousky
Sled Construction: 101
Studio 303 Residency, Montreal, QC
Photos:
Kimora Byol Lemoine
Soapbox Construction:
101, 2021
Holly Timpener & Tess Martens
Video by Caroline St-Laurent, Video Edit & Photos by Richard Mugwaneza
Give Me You Best Slingshot, 2021
with
Milan Kozomora
Photos by
Richard Mugwaneza & Clement Kent
Kitty Cat Got My Tongue, MAI residency, 2021
Photos by Holly Timpener
Brine & Dine, MAI residency, 2021, In Memory of Renee Montminy
Photos by Holly Timpener
Our Lives Are On Hold,
Spill Yer Tea, 2020
with Holly Timpener
Photo by
Milan Kozomora
Ashes to Ashes, Pi*llory, 2020
Photos by Tina Bararian
Colu vs Tess, 2020
with Colu Diaz
Dancing in The Blue Moonlight + Slap It, Twist It, Pull It, Pandora Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Photos by Adriano Agostinacchio
Underneath the Jelly Belly, International Performance Art Week, Venice, Italy, 2020
Photos by Jacques Martens & Fenia Kotsopoulou
Slow Change, Tangente, Montreal, 2019
Photos by
Sandra Lynn Bélanger
Encumbrance, 2020, by Johannes Zits
Johannes Zits,
Enok Ripley,
Holly Timpener &
Tess Martens
Photos by Henry Chan & Aedan Rian Crooke
My Yellow Happy Face Balloons, 2019
Photos by
Sacha Columbia
Who Am I?, Project ID, The Hague, The Netherlands,
2019
Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou & Jacques Martens
