the competition. Film Cole has directed a number of experimental short films, including Toilet (1996), Nancy Boy vs Manly Woman (1997), Coyote, Beautiful (2002), and I Think I'm Coming Down With Something (2003). He collaborated with visual artist Michael Caines on The Boys Next Door (2001), Sunflower (2004), and Une Petite Mort (2005). In 2004, a cover story for the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) magazine described his films as "full of beautiful images that also make you giggle". In 2009, Cole was the subject of the Toronto-based queercore band Kids on TV video Still On About Keith Cole, which he also directed and choreographed. Visual and Performance Art Cole is notorious for an incident in December 2004. While hosting a fundraiser at Buddies in Bad Times, the audience appeared to be losing interest in some of the performers — accordingly, during one of his introductions he pulled down his pants and began to urinate on the stage. Although he was publicly criticized by Fife House, the event's beneficiary, he has noted in subsequent interviews that the press attention he gained from the incident actually advanced his career. Cole has made and exhibited work that incorporates both performance and material objects. In 2007, he collaborated with Luis Jacob on A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, an installation based on the work of contemporary dance pioneer Francoise Sullivan and British sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Cole choreographed and performed in the video component of the work, which was first presented at Documenta in Kassell, Germany, and later at Birch Contemporary in Toronto. In 2015, Cole turned his attention to the late Canadian painter Tom Thomson. Partly developed at a Drake Devonshire Residency in March 2015, the Thomson project culminated in #Hashtaggalleryslut, presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2016. The event was curated by Wanda Nanibush and featured found objects and imagined artifacts, video and performance incorporating a tribute to the late artist David Bucan and Cole as Thomson drowning in a canoe full of water. Cole has exhibited performance and other work at Paul Petro Contemporary Art in Toronto, including the solo show Three Bad Words in 2011. Cole also presents regularly with FADO Performance Art Centre. His performance art practice often intersects with pedagogical conventions such as academic presentations and lecture demonstrations. FADO projects, including Vivencia Poética in 2008 and Valley of