In English
Online on our Facebook Live
articule is pleased to present artists Rah Eleh and Skawennati in conversation on September 26th at 3pm EST. The artists will discuss their digital and performative video works with an emphasis on character development and design. By questioning the inspiration and development of their respective characters, the two artists will highlight several aspects of understanding the implementation of their virtual environments. Passing through the physiognomy of the characters, their gestures, their postures but also their interactions with the public and the barrier of the fourth wall, Rah Eleh and Skawennati lead us to reflect on aesthetics and the medium as a political discourse.
The virtual talk will be in english and will be live-streamed to articule's Facebook page. The conversation will also be available on articule's Facebook and Vimeo after the program.
This ancillary programme coincides with Rah Eleh's solo exhibition SuperNova which will be presented at articule from September 25 to October 25, 2020.
*Please note that the gallery will be closed on September 26th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm for a recording. Regular hours will resume immediately after 4:30 pm.
Rah Eleh is a video, net and performance artist. Rah’s work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally at spaces including: Images Festival (Toronto), Museum London, Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa), Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, Massachusetts), Miami Art Basel, Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem, Netherlands), Pao Festival (Oslo, Norway), Kunst Am Spreeknie (Berlin, Germany), Kunsthaus Graz Museum (Graz, Austria), and Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece). She has been the recipient of numerous awards including: Chalmers Arts Fellowship, finalist for Team Canada in Digital Arts, Conseil Des Arts et Des Lettres Du Quebec Research/Production grant for Digital Arts (2014) and Film (2015), and a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. She has been awarded several residencies including the Koumaria Residency (Greece, 2016), AX Gallery (Berlin 2016), MUU Galleria (Helsinki, 2015), Studio Das Weisse Haus (Vienna, 2014) and the Artslant Georgia Fee Residency (Paris). Rah is represented by Vtape, Canada’s leading artist-run distributor for video art.
Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her work has been widely presented in both group exhibitions and solo shows and is included in public and private collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
Born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, Skawennati holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she resides. She is Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research-creation network of artists and academics who investigate and create Indigenous virtual environments. Their Skins workshops in Aboriginal Storytelling and Experimental Digital Media are aimed at empowering youth. In 2015 they launched IIF, the Initiative for Indigenous Futures.