Conversations with Nina Arsenault

The Tarragon Podcast

Excerpts from conversations between Nina Arsenault and Erin Brubacher. In association with the 2014 Tarragon Theatre and Theatre Smash co-production of The Ugly One by Marius von Mayenburg, translated by Maja Zade, directed by Ashlie Corcoran. Tarragon invites great thinkers and doers to share knowledge and ideas in relation to each play. This track contains moments from conversations between Nina and Erin in January 2014. It's a part of our 2013-14 podcast series: Love Loss Wine and the Gods. www.tarragontheatre.com Produced by Tarragon Theatre Technical producer Andy Trithardt Nina Arsenault is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in live performance, video, and writing. Her autobiographical one woman show The Silicone Diaries chronicled her relationship to the man-made substance silicone exploring the social, psychological and spiritual implications of its injection into her life and body. Many of her artworks have also explored the agonies and ecstasies of her surgical transformations. In 2012, Intellect Books published TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work. This volume, edited by Judith Rudakoff, contains a brilliant analysis of her life and work by 13 international scholars, artists and cultural commentators. http://ninaarsenault.net/ Erin Brubacher is Director of Education for Tarragon. www.erinbrubacher.ca