Colleen Coco Collins

Colleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her practice oscillates temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, frequencies, the ouroboric, the orogenous, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. She lives littorally in rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox.

Colleen Coco Collins [elle/ils] est une artiste interdisciplinaire d’origine irlandaise, française et odawa, qui travaille sur l’écriture de chansons, la performance, la poésie et les arts visuels. Son écriture, sa musique et sa pratique artistique sont centrées sur la temporalité, les présomptions de sensibilité, la subversion, le rythme, le geste, les géographies, les biophonies, les fréquences, l’ouroborique, le péripatéticien, l’amour et le polyglottique. Elle vit dans la région rurale de Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nouvelle-Écosse, au milieu des corbeaux, des coyotes, des quiscales, des abeilles, des bossus, des lichens et des renards.

Coco has been making things for many years. She collaborates as a recording and performing artist with musician Will Kidman, and for bands including Status/Non-Status and Julie Doiron. Coco’s diverse practise extends to libretti and conceptual visual art, and she has co-created with Sheilah and Dani ReStack, Luke Hathaway, Claire Greenshaw and others. Her work has been shown in galleries across Turtle Island (Can & US), the UK and in NZ/Aotearoa. Her published books include the poetry collections Sorry About The Fire and Radicants (with Amanda Fauteux and Miranda Bellamy), and is currently working as Writer-in-Residence at UNB Fredericton.