Video Catalogue
This work was produced through The European Cultural Centre’s performance art workshops. During the summer intensive, I was given the opportunity to respond to Maya Deren’s film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). While studying the film, I was drawn to the use of doubling and reflection Deren achieved through camera… ⊕
2019, 25:29 minutes, colour
tapecode 2122.00
Getting Out of Bed (2019) revolves around one object, an IKEA mattress, where an action creates different planes of experience. In this work, I cut myself out from within said mattress. Once I fully appear, I remove the mattress from the bedroom, extract its interior parts, then finally remove the mattress' insides from… ⊕
This video is an extraction from the forthcoming series Three Weeks in Quarantine (2020). The four videos in that suite are made from a collection of fragmented images. The recorded moments are the tracing of a bodily habit through space, during the first lockdown in Ontario at the beginning of the COVID-19… ⊕
2019, 09:06 minutes, colour
tapecode 2122.01
In the video, I sit in/through/on the chair in question. My recorded movements are slowed down, and three perspectives of the chair are presented, with and without the sitter. The space is neutral yet institutional. When the humorous moment passes and its absurdity accepted, the stillness resonates. How much of the action can… ⊕
The Heart Is An Organ That Pumps Blood is a single-channel video. It uses two recordings; on the left, the viewer sees an extreme close-up of my face and chest, and the right presents a medium shot. The videos were recorded when I was in different emotional states. I appear to be crying in the left video, while in the right… ⊕