Past Resident
2017: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Curator

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

Asal Andarzipour

Canada, Iran

Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Behdad Esfahbod

Studio #213

Braxton Garneau

Canada

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Edmonton Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts

Studio #202

Jude Griebel

Canada, United States

Canada Council for the Arts

2016

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Italy, United States

Past Resident
2017: National Endowment for the Arts

Artist

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.

Events & Exhibitions

Ethics, Documentary, and the Internet: Paolo Cirio in conversation with Julia Powles

December 12, 2017, 6:30–8pm

Fall Open Studios 2017

November 10–November 11, 2017

Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary

October 24, 2017–February 16, 2018

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 United States

Aryel René Jackson

United States

Vision Fund

2025

Hanae Utamura

Japan, United States

Every Page Foundation

Studio #201

Akeema-Zane

United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Vision Fund

2025

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Canada

Past Resident
2017: Canada Council for the Arts

Artist

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.

Events & Exhibitions

Fall Open Studios 2017

November 10–November 11, 2017

Salon: Deborah Edmeades and Fuyuka Shindo

October 3, 2017, 6:30–8pm

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.