An Account of Durational and Distributed Encounters with Corpus CTR

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  • Selena Couture University of Alberta

Abstract

When I was invited to consider archiving and Canadian Theatre Review (CTR) for this issue, I happily agreed, as a performance historian who has both spent time in archives and critiqued the assumptions and power embedded within colonial archives. I admit to a fondness for CTR stemming from my performance in a student production of “This Is for You, Anna” (CTR 43) and the six times CTR has hosted me and some of my collaborators. In recent years, I’ve found CTR to be welcoming—inviting even—and open to creative scholarly writing. As a way of returning the hospitality, I invited the corpus of CTR to cohabitate with me for a few months. I was very interested to see what would happen if we spent some time together while thinking about archives and archiving.

Author Biography

Selena Couture, University of Alberta

Selena Couture is a settler scholar, Associate Professor, and HM Tory Research Chair at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton/ Treaty 6 territory and Métis Region No.4. Her research deconstructs conceptions of settler colonial white possession while foregrounding the maintenance of Indigenous places through performance. Publications include: Against the Current and Into the Light (2020) and On this Patch of Grass (2018). She is a co-director of the Ecologies research cluster with Hemispheric Encounters which delves into legacies of transnational resource extraction and land politics focusing on site-based performance strategies that address politics of land (and agencies of its more-than human inhabitants), as well as spatial politics of occupying public spaces. She serves on the board of directors of Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Solid State Community Society. She is the co-editor of this issue of Performance Matters.

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Published

2026-08-28

How to Cite

Couture, Selena. 2026. “An Account of Durational and Distributed Encounters With Corpus CTR”. Performance Matters 12 (1). Vancouver:152–164. https://www.performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/600.

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2026): Re-Assembling: CTR 199–200

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