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Corinne Thiessen is a multidisciplinary artist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  She holds an MFA from the University of Lethbridge. Corinne is curious about human social activity, especially pertaining to deviance, social norms, self-regulation and social control. Through kinetic objects, drawing, video and performance, her work explores physical and ideological impediments, repression and “acting out.” Thiessen has presented in group exhibitions and collaborative performances at home and abroad. Her recent site-specific installation, Chronic was on view at the Esker Foundation in spring, 2015. Her collaborative drawing performance and installation Liar, Liar! with Amy Modahl has been exhibited at the Petit Trianon, Stride Gallery, Ortstermin (Berlin), and upcoming at Soo Visual Arts Centre in Minneapolis. She has participated in artist residencies at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin; ReMaking, and Mutopia 7 at the Banff Centre.  She has published in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture as well as (Re)Activating Objects: Social Theory and Material Culture at the University of Western Ontario. Thiessen has taught at the post-secondary level in the Media department at Lethbridge College and in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge.   

Thiessen’s exhibition Factory Logic is on view at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (601 Third Avenue South), until January 31.