Mila Figuet is a performance artist and cultural worker based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her work bridges activism and art-making, with a focus on developing strategies to raise awareness about gender-based violence and building tools for collective protest and healing.
She creates spaces and situations where the body—often the primary site of such violence—plays a central role and multiple voices resonate, interweaving personal experiences with the testimonies of the communities she engages with.
She holds a BFA in Intermedia (Video, Performance, and Electronic Arts) from Concordia University. She is also self-taught in archival practices, using them to challenge dominant historical narratives by documenting and making visible stories, experiences, and perspectives that have been under-represented or erased in conventional history.
Combining this tool with oral history methods and elements of narrative experimentation, she builds a language halfway between documentary and fiction.
She has collaborated with cultural institutions such as Dazibao, Vidéographe, Eastern Bloc, Artch, and La Centrale.