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Art NOW - Amanda Dawn Christie
12 pm, April 1, 2016
University Recital Hall
Free Admission, Everyone Welcome
Playing Fast and Loose with the Simple Truth:
Fiction as a means to explore experiential rather than factual histories
This presentation explores the use of fabricated scenarios to explore experiential rather than factual knowledge. The presentation also looks at the use of unverified witness accounts as a means to gather lived experiential truths as opposed to fact based historical truths. Works explored in this talk include: The Marshland Radio Plumbing Project, Spectres of Shortwave, Off Route 2, HiFi Normal, and Resurgo.
Amanda Dawn Christie is an interdisciplinary artist working in film, video, performance, photography, and electroacoustic sound design. She has exhibited and performed in art galleries across Canada, and her films have screened internationally from Cannes to Korea to San Francisco and beyond. She was the 2014 Atlantic finalist for the National Media Art prize, and recently had a 10 year retrospective exhibition of her work curated by Mireille Bourgeois, at the Galerie d’art Louise et Reuben Cohen, and was also included in the Marion McCain Biennale of Atlantic Contemporary Art, curated by Corinna Ghaznavi. Since 1997, she has been actively involved with artist run centres, in both volunteer and staff positions: serving on various boards, working as both a technician and later as a director, teaching workshops, publishing articles, and serving on juries across Canada. She completed her MFA at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, before moving to Amsterdam. Upon her return to Canada she worked at the Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery. She later worked as the director of the Galerie Sans Nom and the RE:FLUX festival of music. She now works full time as an artist with the support of a new media creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts NB. Concepts and themes explored in her work focus primarily on the relationship between the human body and analogue technology in a digital age.
Amanda Dawn Christie's visit to the University of Lethbridge also includes a fascinating talk in the Crossing Boundaries Speaker Series called: Digging Wider: Expanding Research Methods through Multidisciplinary Art Practice. This talk takes place at 7 pm on Thursday, March 31 at the Dr. Foster James Penny Building.
Image courtesy of artist.
Contact:
finearts | finearts@uleth.ca