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Selected Work
Chapter iii: Expansion [2020 — now]
“Dumpster Duchess” – Short film / Cinepoetry, Montréal (Canada)
“Triadë : LaRva lamp, Rëd room + Linës” – PHI, Montréal (Canada)
“Postillon Cëleste” – Cabaret dada forever, Festival Phénoména, Montréal (Canada)
“Suairë [Suite]” – Fierté Montréal Parc Olympique, Montréal (Canada)
“Suairë” – Fierté Montréal Village, Montréal (Canada)
“Inter Tërram et Lunam” – PHI Centre, Montréal (Canada)
“Splëën” – PHI Centre, Montréal (Canada)
“Nous sommes tou·te·s des hypocritës” – Festival Art Souterrain, Montréal (Canada)
“Apparition brusque d’une nouvelle espèce” (w/ June Barry) – PHI Centre, Montréal (Canada)
“Duvët” (w/ Nadia GK) – Parking lots, Laval (Canada)
“Tërra Bëstia” – Short Film, Montréal (Canada)
“Queer Bathing” – Parc-Extension, Montréal (Canada)
“Jardin Secrët ii: Matiëre” – Espace Hors Champs, Austin (Canada)
“Local Relic” – St-Joseph Oratory, Montréal (Canada)
“La bête de la terre – Movement Lab” – Angus, Montréal (Canada)
“Reine du matelas” – Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal (Canada)
“Con Sëquins” – Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal (Canada)
“Jardin Secrët” – Espace Hors Champs, Austin (Canada)
“Sommë” – Whatthepop!, Riverside, St-Henri (Canada)
“Mask4Mask” – Lafontaine park, Montréal (Canada)
“Cranë” – Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal (Canada)
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Chapter ii : Transit [2014 — 2019]
“Banana Phone” – Honcho Disko, Melbourne (Australia)
“Muy Serio” – Collective performance (w/ Carlos Maria Romero) – M-A-I, Montréal (Canada)
“I Block Evëry Walkway (I.B.E.W.)” – Papineau construction site, Montréal (Canada)
“Pitt-Pitt Unit” – Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal (Canada)
“Wrappëd” – Private house, Montréal (Canada)
“Lonëboy” – Concrete Cabaret, The Burdock, Toronto (Canada)
“Javël” – Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide (Australia)
“Oraison : espoir d’une réponse céleste” – Short film, Le Réacteur, Montréal (Canada)
“Étoffe” – AGSA Public Space, Adelaide (Australia)
“Fortune Fortune” (w/ Kijâtai-Alexandra Veillette-Cheezo) – Photo Series, Montréal (Canada)
“Pabsmaster & Margarita” – Art Matters Festival, Montréal (Canada)
“Stopwar” (w/ Annie Maheux) – Cabaret Mado, Montréal (Canada)
“Pub(lick)” – Le Réacteur Art Collective, Montréal (Canada)
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Chapter i: Early Work & Explorations [Pre–2013]
Weekly Drag Performances – Le Drugstore, Montréal (Canada)
“Prend ma sauce” (w/ Annie Maheux) – Art Contexte, Montréal (Canada)
“Human Waste” (w/ Jasper-Julia Lim) – Ontario-loft, Montréal (Canada)
“Projet Randa” – Mini series, Co-created w/ Maryline Chery, Montréal (Canada)
“Chimère en 13 tableaux” – Les Défenestrés, LaCenne, Montréal (Canada)
“Bar à salade” – Theatre, KLAP4 Collective, Studio 211, Montréal (Canada)
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Education
Qufu Shaolin Wushu School 曲阜少林武术学校, Martial Art Studies, Qufu (China)
École Supérieure de Théâtre (UQÀM), Dramatic Arts Teaching, Montréal (Canada)
Cégep Saint-Laurent, Drama / Theatre Arts & Stagecraft, Montréal (Canada)
Memberships
Union des artistes (UDA) #116311
Regroupement de pair Arts indépendants de recherche et d’expérimentation (REPAIRE)
IMDB
Raphë
[pronounced ra-fee]
raphe.raphe.raphe@gmail.com
@raphe.ca
Raphë is a queer shapeshifting artist, producer, and visual storyteller, working primarily in the fields of performance, living sculpture, video art, and collective events.
Their practice intertwines buffoonery, flamboyant simulacrum, and the poetry of disaster, shaping and embodying hybrid creatures—liminal figures endowed with their own gestural language emerging through handcrafted costumery.
Presented in marginal spaces—wastelands, abandoned sites, and environments perceived as hostile—as well as within collective gatherings rooted in subcultures, Raphë’s work navigates the tension between the institutional and the informal.
Notable collaborations include the presentation of Nous sommes tou·te·s des hypocritës during the Festival Art Souterrain; Suaïre, unveiled during the Festival Fierté Montréal; multiple collaborations with the Festival Phénoména; a three-year performance collaboration for Nuit Blanche at the PHI Centre; and the video-performance Tërra Bëstia, distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) in Toronto.