Tears of an Icon
2009 Tears of an Icon is a digital collage that explores the fetishization of female sorrow and the camp devotion to expression by combining found photographs of Judy Garland with…
2009 Tears of an Icon is a digital collage that explores the fetishization of female sorrow and the camp devotion to expression by combining found photographs of Judy Garland with…
2007 Tara Travis, a professional actor, was hired to enact three characters based on Elizabeth Milton’s deceased family members. After studying photographs, character biographies and descriptions of physical and vocal…
2007 Hypnothesis was a live performance that took place during Milton’s MFA thesis presentation at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery at UBC, Vancouver. Working with a hypno-therapist for a…
2005 Studio Portrait was a process-driven performance enacted during a group exhibition at UBC’s BC Binning Studios in the Spring of 2006. The act of recreating a childhood portrait of Elizabeth,…
2006 Re-Staging the Vision is a video installation made up of two video projections that performatively respond to one another. Based around the process of re-enacting an apparition of the…
2005 Character Sketches are a series of photographs that explore how fantasies of the self are realized through the act of drawing and painting in youth. In an attempt to animate…
2004-ongoing Vancouver-based artists Jeremy Todd and Elizabeth Milton have been performing as the character duo Jerry Minelli & Liza Lewis since 2004. Hosting events within the artist-run-community of Vancouver and…
2004 Encore is a performer/audience endurance project that makes use of audio manipulation. Milton performed a live lip synch followed by a ten minute vocal finale. The final note of…
2002 The Stand-in Project was an interactive performance based around the process of hiring a professional actress to endure a twenty-four hour performance as Milton. Researched in all aspects of Milton’s…
2001 Shift is a six and a half hour solo performance for the camera broken only by a ten minute coffee break and a thirty minute lunch break. Milton repeats…