GROUPE INTERVENTION VIDEO (GIV)

Working with animation, video, painting, drawing, installation and intervention, my interdisciplinary practice examines the complex position of culture within neoliberal capitalism and critiques modes of social control, while exploring the potential for art to function as a site of resistance. I am specifically interested in how modes of violence are perpetuated collectively through popular narratives, concepts of justice and denial of accountability. My practice has included an ongoing commitment to working with women and youth who are in conflict with the law, through the creation of art projects in prisons as well as at numerous centres that support marginalized people.

Rae Spoon is a Canadian musician and writer, born in Calgary, Alberta to evangelical Christian parents, and now living in Montreal. Their musical style has varied from country to electronic-influenced indie rock and folk punk. After a decade of living as a trans man, Spoon noted a preference for the pronoun “they” in 2012 during an interview with cartoonist Elisha Lim, a fellow advocate for the gender-neutral pronoun. Spoon’s breakthrough album, 2008’s Superioryouareinferior, was a longlisted nominee for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize.They have also published First Spring Grass Fire, a book of short stories about growing up in Alberta. Arsenal Pulp Press released the book in the fall of 2012. The book was a nominee for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards in the Transgender Fiction category, and Spoon was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.