BR Goldstein is a Toronto-based artist who has made her home in Durham, NC and New York, NY. She received her AOCAD in 2001, and her BFA in 2003, from the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Goldstein uses film, video and performance to create immersive environments that transport the viewer into another state of consciousness. As a plastic, contingent document of reality, video is a signal that can carry the elusive qualities of emotion, memory and the subjective nature of perception. She treats film as a more indexical medium with its own aesthetic qualities, unique in its materiality and corporeality. Her work, however, is not romantic: it has a political edge, expressed through elision and conceptual frameworks.

Her short films and videos have screened at Canadian and International festivals: the Images Festival (Toronto); World Wide Short Film Festival (Toronto); Herland Film Festival (Calgary); the Planet in Focus Festival (Toronto); and the PDX Film Festival (Portland, US). In 2006, her work was included in Atchung! Baby, a program of performance video curated by artists Johanna Householder and Nina Czegledy. The program traveled to Bratislava; Slovakia, Budapest; Hungary, and Cluj; Romania. Her installations have been exhibited at the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest (Kassel), Germany; York Quay Gallery (Toronto); Mercer Union: A Center for Contemporary Art (Toronto); FADO Performance Art Center (Toronto); The Toronto Free Gallery (Toronto); and the Agnes Etherington Art Center (Kingston, ON).

Her writing and an artist’s project have appeared in Fuse Magazine and POV magazine. She was also a member of Toronto’s Pleasure Dome film and video exhibition group. She was the Executive Producer of You Are Here, the first feature film by fellow artist Daniel Cockburn. Writer/curator R.M. Vaughan included her work in a screening/discussion called ML/SL (mid-life/shelf-life) at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto.

Artist Code: 697