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 the intersections of physical and virtual experience through themes of spirituality, identity, and perception. She is also the incoming director of interplay_2026, an acclaimed festival dedicated to 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. 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).
Her project Inner Sublimity, co-led with Sammy Chien, employs real-time motion capture and somatic movement to explore healing through the interplay of Eastern and Western worldviews. 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 invites audiences into an immersive experience that reimagines ritual, technology, and the spiritual in contemporary art.
Caroline’s recent community engagements include an Artist Talk with SFU, where she has returned multiple times in recent years, and contributions to Canada’s National Ballet School’s LEAD Program (Leadership, Empowerment, Action, Dance). She also participated in the New Works XR Interfacing with Experts panel in Vancouver, BC, joining Freya Björg Olafson, prOphecy sun, and Nancy Lee for a conversation hosted as part of the Short Circuit Series. As Guest Curator for the 12th edition of Shooting Gallery Performance Series (Vancouver/Online), she programmed artists working at the intersection of performance and technology. She maintains an ongoing teaching relationship with Kun Shan University in Tainan, Taiwan, where she has delivered multiple guest lectures for third-year architecture students focused on embodied spatial understanding and New Media practices.
Through her artistic and curatorial work, Caroline creates complex and nuanced experiences that merge new technologies with contemporary interdisciplinary practice. Her projects delve into layered themes, pushing the boundaries of dance and new media in ways that invite audiences to engage with art, technology, and spirituality in fresh and transformative ways.
Caroline MacCaull is an interdisciplinary artist, producer, and curator working at the intersection of movement, media, and technology. She is honoured to steward the next chapter of interplay_, a live online performance festival dedicated to experimental and collaborative creation. 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. Caroline is Co-Artistic Director of Chimerik 似不像, an award-winning and internationally recognized arts organization committed to advancing performance and technology. Her recent work has been presented at Venice Art Night (Collateral Event of the Venice Biennale 2024), Ballo Pubblico Festival (Italy), LAIKS DEJOT (Latvia), PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She is very honoured to be a recipient of the 2023/2024 Chrystal Dance Prize.
Photographed by Dayna Szyndrowski, during Leña Artist Residency, Galiano Island 2021/09/24