benni macdonald is a Canadian artist, curator, and activist practicing in Montréal,
Quebec. They have exhibited, performed, and organized across Canada and have
been a part of several artist/ curatorial collectives. benni’s artistic
practice, research, and advocacy work uses a collaborative approach in working
for queer and trans liberation and change in mental health/addictions policy
and practice. Recently their installation work, queer coping mechanisms, was
shown at the Canadian Harm Reduction Conference (2018) where they
co-facilitated a workshop for social service workers working with queer and
trans youth who experience challenges due to their drug use and mental health.
benni has a bachelor of communications from Macewan University in Edmonton, and
is now working on a bachelor of fine arts in studio arts at Concordia
University in Montréal.
benni macdonald performance, Summer Institute 2019,
Trackings and Trappings.
Davis Plett is an intermedia artist working on Treaty 1 territory. Their work
has been shown by Nuit Blanche, Cluster Festival, Carol Shields Festival, Young
Lungs Dance Exchange, and Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, with upcoming
work at Art Holm 4 and PTE Festival of New Works. They have held residencies at
CARTAE Open School, VideoPool Media Arts, and Young Lungs Dance Exchange.
Plett’s training spans Pochinko clowning, cultural studies and theatre,
typography, expanded cinema, and multimedia design. They also have worked
extensively in Winnipeg as a sound designer, composer, and audio programmer. In spring of 2019, Plett will
participate in the inaugural English edition of Conversations on Performance at
Festival TransAmériques in
Montreal, and the 8DaysVII choreography gathering in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.
Davis Plett Performance, Summer Institute 2019. Trackings
and Trappings.
Lucas
Regazzi
(b. 1995). Lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Regazzi received his
BFA from Concordia University in 2018. His work has been exhibited in
galleries, auctions and publications internationally including Duplex
(Vancouver, Canada), Calaboose (Montreal, Canada), Detroit Research (Detroit,
USA), the Haunt Journal of Art at the University of California, Irvine (Irvine,
USA), Bad Nudes (Montreal, Canada) and Pazmaker (Mexico City, Mexico).
Lucas Regazzi, install. Summer Institute 2019. Trackings and Trappings.
Mahri White is a
cisgendered queer female artist born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I enjoy
long walks on the frozen river and I approach most formal writing opportunities
satirically, often in an attempt to soften certain notions of professionalism
within academia and the art world. I am currently completing my final semester
in the BFA Honours program at the University of Manitoba, and it is here that I
have become ever critical of our fine art institutions, what they allow for
various queer thought processes and self-exploratory art praxis. My practice is
focused primarily in printmaking, textiles, and sculpture, where the outcome of
one project will often inspire the other across these mediums. In 2016 I
co-directed Gallery 623 in the ArtSpace building, organizing and curating 10
shows by local and national emerging artists.
Mahri White, Install. Summer
Institute 2019. Trackings and Trappings.
Marijana Mandusic is a painter and performance artist whose work is focused on embodying feelings of loneliness, isolation and self-exposure. Creating odd looking characters through her paintings and an awkward, often troubled persona in her performances she hopes to bring out the humor in dejected states of being. Marijana completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (honours) in 2016 and currently lives and works in Winnipeg.
Marijana Mandusic performance, Summer Institute
2019. Trackings and Trappings
Megan Moore is a Montréal-based
media artist. She has exhibited in Canada (2014 Art Souterrain Festival, Espace
Projet, FOFA Gallery, Orillia Museum of Art and History) and Europe (Maison de
la Photographie, Lille, France, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, Ulster
Museum, Belfast, UK.) In 2015, she won the Montréal Emerging Photographer award
and the Photo Diploma Award first prize in Poznan Poland. Megan holds a BFA in
photography from Concordia University, and an MFA in Studio Arts from the
University of Guelph.
Megan Moore, Install. Summer Institute 2019. Trackings and Trappings.
Nicole Shimonek is an interdisciplinary artist from
Winnipeg, Canada. She has an MFA from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in
London, and a BFA from the University of Manitoba. She recently was an Artist
in Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts, and has participated in numerous
residencies and initiatives. Her work has exhibited both nationally and
internationally at Plug In ICA, the Syracuse Museum of Art, the Art the
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gallery 1C03 and Urban Ideas Creative Placemaking
Challenge. Her videos have screened at the Detroit Museum of New Art, Camden
Roundhouse in London, Prairie Scene in Ottawa), Images Festival in Toronto, Studio
303 and the MAI in Montreal, Supermarket Art Fair in Sweden, and WNDX in Winnipeg.
Nicole Shimonek, Install. Summer Institute 2019. Trackings and Trappings.
Sabrina
Sethi is an emerging curator
and writer of Punjabi and Scottish decent. She has recently returned to
academia to pursue her MA in Cultural Studies, in the Curatorial Stream. Since
returning to Winnipeg, Sabrina has been working with Graffiti Art Programming
Inc., first as Gallery Assistant, and subsequently as Gallery Coordinator. She
has also recently participated in a BIPOC writer’s workshop series at Ace. Her
research interests developed based on her own experiences as a mixed race South
Asian/Scottish Canadian, and explores representations of diaspora and cultural
production in the West, how that is consumed, presented, and critiqued, as well
as exploring concepts of belonging and Othering in Western culture.
Sabrina Sethi (left) with Freinds Sarah, and Jean. Summer Institute 2019. Open Studio. Trackings and Trappings.
Sabrina Sethi (left) with Freinds Sarah, and Jean. Summer Institute 2019. Open Studio. Trackings and Trappings.
Sabrina Sethi, Install. Summer Institute 2019. Trackings and Trappings.
Serena Lee’s practice stems from a fascination with polyphony and its radical
potential to map power, perception, and belonging. Since 2010, Serena has been
a part of the feminist collective Read-in, researching political, embodied, and
situated practices of reading through shifting modes and disciplines; and more
recently, Serena has been collaborating with artist Christina Battle as
SHATTERED MOON ALLIANCE, an ongoing sci-world-building project. Practicing
internationally and close to home, recent projects have been realized with
transmediale/Embassy of Canada (Berlin), Hanaholmen Cultural Centre (Helsinki),
Vtape (Toronto), Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga), Whitechapel Gallery (London),
The Research Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Forest City Gallery (London,
ON), Images Festival (Toronto), and Mountain Standard Time (Calgary), among
others. Serena holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, NL) She
is third-generation Chinese-Canadian and was born in Toronto.
Serena Lee, Performance. Summer Institute 2019. Trackings and Trappings.
Suzie Smith is an artist who works with printmaking and design that expands into
sculpture, installation and video. Often her work incorporates acts of
deconstruction and transformation and looks back at the process of making
itself. She has shown her work across Canada in a number of solo exhibitions
and has been included in group exhibitions in Canada, the US and Europe. In
addition to her own practice, she is a founding member of Parameter Press, a
quarterly risograph art publication delivered by mail.
Suzie Smith Install. Summer Institute 2019. Trackings and Trappings.
Toby Gillies is a third-generation visual artist based in Winnipeg. He holds a BFA from the University of Manitoba. Toby’s practice is rooted in experiments in drawing and collage, with frequent forays into digital animation, ceramic, sculpture, public art and social practice. His intuitive approach to art making lends itself nicely to proliferation and collaboration, with seemingly no end to his playful exploration. For nearly a decade, he has been facilitating art experiences in the community, where he serves as Studio Manager of Art City and Artist in Residence at Misericordia Health Centre. He has said that his favourite days are spent making art with older adults in the morning, making art with children in the afternoon, and then working on creative projects of his own in the evening.
Toby Gillies, Install. Summer Institute 2019. Trackings and Trappings.
Tracy Peters is a Winnipeg-based multidisciplinary artist who examines relationships
between organic and human-built environments. She has received grants from the
Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts
Council. Peters has attended residencies that include a partnership between
Void Gallery and the Social Studios and Gallery in Derry, Northern Ireland, the
Deep Bay Residency program in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, and the
ArtCenter/South Florida-MAWA artist exchange program in Miami, Florida. In
2018, Peters participated in the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in
Mount Forest, Ontario. Her work has exhibited across Canada, in Europe, and
Australia.
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