Caroline MacCaull is a queer Mad Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist and Co-Artistic Director of Chimerik 似不像, a nonprofit arts organization known for its innovative new media and performance work. With a unique focus on combining movement, performance art, and interactive technologies, Caroline’s practice explores intersections of the physical and virtual, often through themes of spirituality, identity, and perception. She is also the incoming director of interplay_2026, an acclaimed festival for live-online, collaborative, and multidisciplinary performance. Holding a BFA from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, her work has been widely presented, some selected credits include: Shooting Gallery Performance Series, interplay_, the Dance Centre, New Works, FOUND Festival (Edmonton), and internationally at K.Format/documenta 15 (Germany), Festival International de Danse Animée (Réunion), Ballo Pubblico Festival (Poggibonsi, Italy), Drink and Draw (Berlin), International Contemporary Dance Festival “LAIKS DEJOT” (Riga, Latvia), Dance on Fluid (Taiwan), London Fashion Week (UK), and Venice Art Night, a Collateral Event of the Venice Biennale Arte 2024 (Venice, Italy), among others.
Her project Inner Sublimity, co-led with Sammy Chien, employs real-time motion capture and somatic movement to explore themes of healing through the interplay of Eastern and Western perspectives. This innovative work received Dance Victoria’s 2023/24 Chrystal Dance Prize and was co-presented by PuSh Festival and the Vancouver Art Gallery in February 2025. The project offers audiences an immersive experience that redefines art, ritual, and technology, inviting fresh engagement with the intersection of spiritual and digital realms.
Caroline’s recent community engagements include an Artist Talk with SFU, Canada’s National Ballet School’s LEAD Program (Leadership, Empowerment, Action, Dance), participation in the New Works XR Interfacing with Experts Panel in Vancouver, BC, where she joined Freya Björg Olafson, prOphecy sun, and Nancy Lee for a panel discussion as part of the Short Circuit Series for XR community exploration. She also served as Guest Curator for Shooting Gallery Performance Series #12 in Vancouver/Online, curating works that intersect performance and technology. This past November, Caroline was a Guest Teacher at Kun Shan University in Tainan, Taiwan, leading a series of workshops to teach third-year architecture university students about embodied spatial understanding.
Through her artistic and curatorial work, Caroline creates complex and nuanced work that merges new technologies with contemporary interdisciplinary practices. Her projects delve into layered themes, pushing the boundaries of dance and new media arts in ways that invite audiences to engage with art, technology, and spirituality in fresh and thought-provoking ways.
Caroline MacCaull (she/they) is a queer interdisciplinary artist based on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, colonially known as “Vancouver, BC, Canada”. Her artistic practice focuses on the blending of movement, performance art, and technology, as a way to explore the intersection and in-between space of art forms. Her work often explores themes on spirituality, reality, perception and dynamic intersections that can exist between virtual and physical realms. She is very honoured to be a recipient of the 2023/2024 Chrystal Dance Prize. Caroline is the Co-Artistic Director of Chimerik 似不像, a multi-award-winning interdisciplinary organization consisting of artists from underrepresented groups from various age groups, backgrounds, levels of experience, and disciplines.
photos by: Emilie Grace photography
photos by: Emilie Grace photography
photos by: Emilie Grace photography
Photographed by Dayna Szyndrowski, during Leña Artist Residency, Galiano Island 2021/09/24