2014 Misty Moment was a collaborative performance between Milton and professional actor, Tara Travis that aimed to explore the relationship between cinematic constructions of sentimentality and the embodiment of affect.…
2014 Falling Down: A Ballet for My Bedroom is a video work in which Milton staged and performed the gaudy decadence of an emotional breakdown within her own personal bedroom.…
2014 Chandelier was a collaborative live performance that adopted the choreography of a chorus-line to investigate hyperbolic expressivity and the performativity of materials. Staged within the opulent surroundings of the Vancouver…
2013-2014 Cotton Candy Insulation Keeps You Warm and Cuts Like Glass was a performance and installation work that revolved around inviting a series of participants into the gallery space (during closing hours)…
2012 Two Women, Two Striped Robes, Two-Hundred Lemons, Anemones and Lipstick was a performative response the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore.…
2012 Patron Saints of My Mother’s House is a series of photographic character-portraits depicting Milton’s mother as she masquerades as a series of Catholic Saints within her home of 47 years.…
2012 Elizabeth Taylor Impersonators is a digital print of a series of hand-drawn pastel portraits that investigate questions of authenticity, amatuerism and the immortalizing nature of portraiture. Drawn under the direction…
2011 Rerun is a site specific video performance that took place at what was at the time, the newly renovated Waldorf Hotel in Vancouver. Exploring the contradictory desire for historical re-enactment…
2011 This two-channel video installation, Still: Re-Posing Lady Brute (for the duration of Kate Craig’s ‘Skins’, 60 mins 33 sec), investigates processes of re-enactment by focusing on the relationship between documentation,…
2011 Office Takes is the first installment in the Auditions video series. Throughout Auditions, Milton and a series of participants (composed of amateur and professional actors, the artist’s mother and a…
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