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Watchings, Tall Tales and Other Works for Now: A survey of recent work and thoughts about the current moment
Lisa Hirmer an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans visual media, social practice, performance, community collaboration and experimental forms of research. Working under the pseudonym DodoLab, she explores the complicated nature of public opinion and the public life of ideas. In her photo-based work she studies the forces that shape and transform human relationships with more-than-human ecologies. She has shown her work across Canada and internationally, with recent exhibitions/projects at: Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax), Doris McCarthy Gallery, Peninsula Arts (U.K.), Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga), CAFKA (Kitchener-Waterloo), Flux Factory (Brooklyn, USA), KIAC (Dawson City), and Third Space (Saint John). She was recently commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario to create a new work in response to the sesquicentennial as part of the Every.Now.Then exhibition. Recent residencies include The Natural and Manufactured at KIAC (Dawson City), the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Hirmer is a graduate of the University of Waterloo School and is currently based in Guelph, Canada.
Image courtesy of the artist.
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