Past Residents
Past Resident2017: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Eli Kerr
Eli Kerr is committed to artistic practices that investigate the unfolding of technological and social modalities. His research currently observes situational and environmental risk as a relation to legacies of modernity.
Eli Kerr (born 1988) is a Canadian curator based in Montréal. With interest in architecture and agency of infrastructures, Kerr co-founded VIE D’ANGE with Daphné Boxer in 2016. Their exhibition program borrows devices from theatre to explore the internalization of economic and historical complexities within a shifting built environment.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Eli Kerr, Unsafe at Any Speed, 2015, installation view at VIE D'ANGE, left to right: Valérie Blass, Michel de Broin, Jon Rafman.
Eli Kerr, Rachel Maclean: The State of Happiness, 2017, installation view at VIE D'ANGE.
Eli Kerr, Jean-François Lauda et Brendan Flanagan, 2016, installation view at VIE D'ANGE.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2017: National Endowment for the Arts
Paolo Cirio
Paolo Cirio engages with legal, economic, and semiotic systems of the information society. His works investigates social fields impacted by the Internet, such as privacy, copyright, democracy, and finance.
Paolo Cirio has exhibited widely throughout the world, including at C/O, Berlin; MIT Museum, Boston; and V&A Museum, London, among others. He was awarded the Golden Nica in the Interactive Art by Ars Electronica in 2014 and was an Eyebeam Fellow in 2012.
Paolo Cirio, Obscurity, 2016, archival inkjet on 350gsm paper, 33 × 41 in. (83.82 × 104.14 cm).
Paolo Cirio, Overexposed, 2015, acrylic and spray paint.
Paolo Cirio, Daily Paywall, 2014, news prints.
Paolo Cirio, Loophole for All, 2013.
Paolo Cirio, Street Ghosts, 2012, inkjet prints.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
Past Resident2017: Canada Council for the Arts
Deborah Edmeades
Deborah Edmeades’s work exists at the intersection of performance, the lens, object-making and drawing. Her performative practice has at times extended outside of an artistic or academic context and into therapeutic and esoteric experiments. Recent interests include the history of western esotericism and its manifestation in contemporary New Age religion.
Deborah Edmeades has shown work at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom; Ars Electronica, Austria; Dixon Place, New York; Artspeak, Vancouver; and The Knitting Factory, New York, among others.
Deborah Edmeades, Monologues: a score, detail, 2017, paint, ink and silver leaf on drafting vellum, 83 × 181/2 in. (210.82 × 46.99 cm).
Deborah Edmeades, Monologues, 2017, performance, 20 min.
Deborah Edmeades, Blinking and Other Involuntary Portals, detail, 2016, rocks, felt, wood, paint, false eyelashes, silver leaf, paper, galvanized wire, polyester resin, magnets, circuitry, solar panels, mount board, 5" video monitors, cameras and teleprompter glass, dimensions variable.
Deborah Edmeades, Artists, Mystics & Suffragettes (A-Z), detail, 2016, paper, paint, and glue, 7.5 x 4.5 x 3 in each.
Deborah Edmeades, This, 2014, video still, 13 min.