Vanessa Brazeau is a Canadian artist living in Berlin, graduate of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies. Vanessa’s artistic practice implements social and political themes into athletic frameworks in order to critique neoliberal mentalities of the body, competition, productivity, and labour. She sees the body as a tool for education, empowerment and stimulation of the mind and offers this perspective to others through high-performance performances that encourage participation, activation, and resistance. Vanessa initiated #TeleToboganing as a long-distance contribution to the Layer Up Winter Art Crawl and as a performative tele-event in #theColderOLYMPIX series by ccSPORT. Vanessa is founder of www.ArtSpin.Berlin and collaborator in ccSPORT. For more info: www.vanessabrazeau.com