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)…
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…
2011 Casting Couch is the second installment in Milton’s Auditions video series. Shifting between therapeutic processes, acting exercises and self-reflexive awareness of being filmed, a series of participants lie upon…
2011 Confessional is the third video installment in the Auditions video series. Milton and a series of participants (composed of amateur and professional actors, the artist’s mother and a practicing psychiatrist)…
2010, 2005 In Collaboration with Tara Travis.The Actor Cries integrates performance, sound and video into an installation that investigates the somatic manifestation of sadness and the authenticity of emotional experience. Central…
2010 In collaboration with Sheila PoznikoffSt. Theresa’s Basement is a multi-channel video work that utilizes documentary structures to trace the private activities of a Catholic women’s group (made up of 20-30…
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…
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…
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