Jackie Gallant

Jackie Gallant is a musician, video artist, composer, and performer. She composes, improvises, and performs for dance, video, and film. She began her career as a drummer in several Montreal-based rock bands, later touring nationally and internationally with groups such as La La La Human Steps and Lesbians on Ecstasy. She also plays percussion and creates solo pieces based on samples, primarily using electronic drums. As a sound designer and composer, she has collaborated with filmmaker Roy Cross, video artists Nelson Henricks, Nikki Forrest, Sabrina Ratté, and Dayna McLeod, choreographers Holy Body Tattoo, Eddie Ladd, Martin Bélanger, George Stamos, Julienne Doko, and dancers Sarah Williams and Karen Fennell. She has also worked with actress and director Marie Brassard. In 2015, she created and directed POD~themusical, a pop opera presented at the Phenomena Festival, while continuing her collaborations with Stamos and Fennell. As a sound, performance, and video artist, her work explores and deconstructs pop culture through self-referential humour and subtle subversion.