Person wearing a loose white shirt and black pants holds a glass, looking intently at it while crouching indoors among a seated crowd.
Alegria Gobeil, Except the bloodline (2025). VIVA! Art action, Montréal. Documentation Paul Litherland

Alegría Gobeil

Artist

A works with practices deemed self-destructive, unproductive, unliveable, contagious, collective and impossible to survive.

Their undisciplined practice is always shaped by the material, bodily and contextual conditions from which it emerges. Rooted in performance-as-protocol, their work alongside lives rendered unliveable has led them towards a critique of psychopathologising regimes and their modes of capture. More recently, A has been preoccupied with cultivating an eroticism of counter-anamnesis.

Taking the form of exhibitions, performances, spoken readings and printed texts, their work has been presented across live art, visual art and literary contexts in New York, Berlin and Québec. Their two undisciplined stage works, Except the Bloodline and What Is a Head Worth When Crushed Beneath a Light That Never Goes Out, were supported by LA SERRE – arts vivants.

A lives in Tiohtià/Mooniyang/Montreal.