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Chritine Kirouac Artist Lecture, SCAD MOA auditorium Thursday,
April 23, 7pm
Christine Kirouac is
an Canadian Interdisciplinary artist with an MFA from Concordia University
Montreal. In 2008 she moved to NC teaching studio and Art History at Wake
Forest University, Winston-Salem State University, Greensboro College and Salem
College For Women. Over the last twenty-five years, she has participated in
multiple residencies at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, the Kunst
& Complex in Rotterdam NED and was short-listed for the renowned
Rijksakademie Residency Program in Amsterdam in 2006. She has received over
thirty grants from supporters including The Canada Council for the Arts, The
National Film Board, The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation and most
recently received a Project Grant from the Winston-Salem & Forsyth Arts
Council in North Carolina for her print-based project Papermen.
Exhibition highlights
and screenings include the Lisbon International Film Festival, Belfast NI
Billboard Project, The Ireland Park Foundation video commission Toronto,
Cinesonica: Festival of Cinema Sound Vancouver, the 4th Cairo International Video
Festival in Egypt and Global House 2011, curated by the Gwang Ju Curatorial
Biennale Program in South Korea. In 2012, Don’t Go Away was short-listed
for New Frontiers Program at Sundance, and in 2014 at Heritage International
Conference and Film Program; Food Diaspora - Speisediaspora Berlin. She
performed her twelve-hour piece Canadian Time for Receiverfest in
Charleston SC 2011, and screened its time-lapse video at the 31st Festival of
Films On Art in Montreal, and at the 5th Exposition L’ Art Video et
Multimedia in Marseille France in 2012. From 2012 to 2014 Kirouac
was Director/Curator for Multiples Chicago Critical Craft & Visual Culture
Fair, New Material Art Fair Miami and Verge Art Fair NYC all based out of
Chicago IL.
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| Photo by Diana Greene |
