FMC is pleased to present the 16th Annual Members Screening. This screening welcomes work by new and returning members, and showcases a selection of Hamilton’s diverse media artwork.
Thank you for tuning into the Watch Party on Monday December 13th!
Featuring works by:
Aaron Murphy, Adrienne Crossman Alex Jacobs-Blum, Andrés Miramontes, Angela Josephine, Bawaadan Collective, Chris Myhr, Claire Scherzinger, Derek B. Jenkins, Eli Nolet, Ingrid Mayrhofer, Jessica Rodríguez, Khaleel Gandhi, Lydia Santia, Mark Prier, Mikaela Demers, Natalie Hunter, Olivia Fasulo, Rebecca Casalino, Ryan Ferguson, Sandra Lim, Shane Pennels, Susan Robinson, Teras Hemon, and Will Gillespie
Screening Program:
Shane Pennels
Huey
Since time immemorial, man has sought to immortalize his memory using the power and beauty of the written word. This is one of those attempts. Remember it fondly. (Twitter: @shanepennells; IG: shanepennells)
Sandra Lim
Rocking Horse
Sandra Lim currently lectures on Politics and Film at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She holds a PhD in Art and Design for the Moving Image, with a focus on practice based research and the moving image. Her work is informed by British avant-garde and experimental cinema traditions, and is characterized as being performative, musical, and grounded in autoethnographic and archival practice. https://sandralim.ca/
Aaron Murphy
Protective Relays
Aaron Murphy is a lens-based artist working with montage and landscape. His artistic practice involves remediation and word-image experiments with original and found photographs, texts, and audio recordings, as well as research focusing on numinosity, poetry, and materiality. In 2015, he completed his PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. www.aaronmurphy.ca
Khaleel Gandhi
The Women
Khaleel Gandhi is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in film, theatre production and mixed media. He is a recent graduate of distinction from McMaster University, holding an Honours B.A. in Theatre, Film and Multimedia Studies. His area of interest lies in the intersections of the stage and screen through mixed media installations and projects. http://www.khaleelgandhi.com
Alex Jacobs-Blum
Onak:dot
Alex Jacobs-Blum (Lower Cayuga of Six Nations/ German), photo-based artist and curator living in Ohròn:wakon (Hamilton, ON). Alex’s practice centres Indigeneity, reclamation, resilience and intergenerational love and healing while challenging colonial structures. Nationally Alex’s work has been exhibited at the University of Ottawa, the Woodland Cultural Centre, and Critical Distance Centre for Curators. Alex holds a Bachelor of Photography from Sheridan College (2015). @alexjacobsblum
Angela Josephine
Concrete Walls
Angela Josephine is a modern fusion dancer living in Hamilton, Ontario. She is known for her expressive and evocative work that combines her 8 years of training in raqs sharqi and fusion bellydance with experimental movement concepts. In 2019 she was awarded the Hamilton Arts Award for Emerging Artist in the Performing Arts category. Most recently, she was honored to be a part of the [un]wrap: Global Citizenship in Motion Show hosted by CU Boulder. You can study with Angela at Mahasti the Creative Emporium where she teaches fusion bellydance workshops.
Bawaadan Collective
R.E.M Burn
The Bawaadan Collective is an Indigenous Collective made up of a diverse and highly skilled membership of artists and collaborators, each focused on narrative change and capacity-building in our individual right. Our members have professional and educational backgrounds ranging from community development work; youth advocacy, amplification, and engagement; project management; non-profit sector experience; early childhood education; Indigenous language revitalization initiatives; Indigenous governance; Indigenous post-secondary education; social justice education; policy development; advancement of Indigenous-led educational programming; to creative arts practices, including film and costume production, mural installations, and youth arts projects.
Eli Nolet
I’M NOT DANCING
Eli Nolet is a queer interdisciplinary artist from the occupied territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas (otherwise known as hamilton, ontario). Currently in their third year of studies at McMaster University towards a B.F.A. in Studio Art, Eli’s artistic practice explores identity and selfhood through performative activations of static image and text work. Across their practice, Eli is interested in recovering and tracing the many layered histories of queer culture, and questioning the binaries of visible/invisible, normative/transgressive. Their work is ever evolving as they explore various mediums and methods of creation.
Derek B. Jenkins
Foggy Joggy
Derek Jenkins (Canada/United States) is a motion picture photographer based in Hamilton, ON. His practice is handmade, personal, and documentary, with an interest in labour, ecology, and technology—specifically the reciprocal relationships between tools, materials, and ways of knowing. His films have screened widely, most recently at Fracto Film Encounter, Antimatter [media art], DocLisboa, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, the 8fest, and ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. His installations include a sound work, “The E6 Process” (2018), at Factory Media Centre as part of HAVN’s Sonic Art Series, and a film loop, “Contents” (2109), in Minding the Archive at Hamilton Artists Inc. In 2020, his film work, “Livestock,” was installed at McMaster Museum of Art as part of the exhibition, Animals Across Discipline, Time and Space. For several years, he worked as a technician at Niagara Custom Lab. He is Executive Director at Hamilton Artists Inc.
Ryan Ferguson
Moments Between Movements
Ryan Ferguson is an artist and curator from Hamilton, ON. Under the name electroluminescent, he has been performing his musical compositions since 1997, at home in Hamilton, also there somewhere else and again in yet another place (11 countries to date). His films have been shown at festivals in Europe, Japan and across the Americas. He has yet to be bested in a standing broad jump competition, is currently living without a cat and trades in the fields of melancholy and nostalgia
Chris Myhr
In-Between (Redux)
Chris Myhr is a media artist based in Hamilton, Ontario whose studio practice engages with photography, the moving image, sound, and media installation. His most recent projects seek intersections between art, science, philosophy, and ecology. Since 2012, Myhr has been developing an extensive body of work titled “Point-Line-Intersection” that examines our complex interconnections with the Earth’s hydrosphere. The works in “Point-Line-Intersection” revolve around themes of complex interconnectivity, and explore the paradoxical tension between water as life, vitality and industry, as well as a source of immense and unpredictable destructive power. http://www.chrismyhr.com
Mark Prier
A selection of edible and poisonous white-flowering plants from eastern North America
Mark Prier’s artwork examines the interaction between culture and ecology. Working from diverse sources, such as botany, folklore, geology, and history, he rearticulates this examination into sculpture, installation, performance, sound, and video. He has collaborated with environmental conservation workers, cast seed for urban birds, started restoring an acre of farmland to the documented pre-colonial forest, and created large-scale sculptures reimagining suburban fence posts.
His exhibitions include shows in Canada, Mexico, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Andres Miramontes
Catharsis > Ataxia
Andres (he/him) is a Mexican Hamilton based artist that works with mix media and art installations. Previous works include music videos of Thanya Iyer, Sarah Good and The Bads, Martin Verral and Zena the band.
Will Gillespie
One or the Other
Will Gillespie is an award-winning Singer-Songwriter, Musician and Playwright living and working in Hamilton, Ontario. A co-founder of Chasing Shadows Productions, he wrote and directed the musicals “Swinging’ in St. John’s”, “Diamond in the Rough” and “Martians & Martinis”.
Rebecca Casalino
girls can’t climb ladder/girls can’t pour beer
Rebecca Casalino is an artist, writer and curator based in Ohròn:wakon (Hamilton, ON). She is a queer Italian-Canadian settler, maintaining her practice through deeply personal collaborations in her community and sheer willpower. Working in artists’ multiples, video, sculpture, performance and drawing Casalino channels her lived experience through her quirky, often deadpan, humour.
Ingrid Mayrhofer
Kill Eat Serve (repeat)
Ingrid Mayrhofer (BFA, MA, York University) is a visual artist, curator, educator and community arts practitioner. In addition to printmaking and photography, she works with installation, site-specific intervention and video. Multimedia artist Lynn Hutchinson Lee, from Toronto, Canada, has exhibited across Canada, and abroad. Her spoken word sound installation work was part of “Call the Witness,” Second Roma Pavilion, Venice Biennale, in 2011.
Mikaela Demers
spacepod experiment
i believe in the power of fiction and imagination. in this world i work to embrace fantasy. i believe in the dark places of our minds, bodies, and hearts. i aim to sit in and move through these spaces. originally from manitoulin island, now based in hamilton, ontario. interested in working collaboratively, multidisciplinary work, and doing work site-specifically + outside of major art centers. http://www.freewaterforartists.com/
Adrienne Crossman
Queer Still Life
Adrienne Crossman (they/them) is a queer and non-binary white settler artist, educator and curator currently residing on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples in so called Hamilton, Ontario. Their practice investigates the ways in which media and popular culture representations both mirror and influence contemporary society, specifically in relation to how they shape the ways we see the world and how we see ourselves. Through their work, Crossman explores the question of what queerness feels like.
Jessica Rodriguez
Céu De Boca + Ronín
Visual composer, designer and researcher. She has developed performances, educational projects and research papers. Her practical work has focused in the collaboration with composers to produce audiovisual projects; as well as research about the role of sound that can be expanded in other disciplines. Iracema de Andrade is a versatile performer committed to the artistic expressions of her time. Known for her work on repertoires that make use of electroacoustic, visual, interdisciplinary, and improvisational elements, De Andrade has created a significant number of pieces for her instrument throughout her career.
Lydia Santia
Fountain Prototype #1
Lydia Santia is an interdisciplinary artist living in Hamilton, Ontario.
Natalie Hunter
To Breathe The Sky
Natalie Hunter is from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She works between photography, installation, and sculpture, and is mostly known for her multilayered and experiential photo-based installations on transparent film. With a fascination for both image making and working with materials by hand, she explores ephemeral and immaterial concepts like time, light, memory, space, temporality, perception, and the senses, through material, image, and form. In both image making, sculpture, and their installation, light is fundamental to her process.
Olivia Fasulo
How to Impeach a President (excerpt)
Olivia Fasulo is a writer and director based in Hamilton, Ontario. A McMaster graduate, she founded Referendum Productions, a female-led production company that focuses on equality in story-telling and pushing new boundaries. “How to Impeach a President” is her directorial debut in film and was an official selection in the 2020 Hamilton Film Festival.
Susan Robinson
Let the Money Keep You Warm
Susan Robinson is a multi-media artist living and working in Hamilton. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, she does painting, illustration, photography, videos, sculpture, puppet-making and theatre. She is the co-creator and producer of Chasing Shadows Productions, an award-winning theatre company.
Claire Scherzinger
Anyder
Claire Scherzinger is a Canadian transplant originally from Toronto and currently living in Washington State. She has a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design (2013) and an MFA from the University of Victoria (2019). Her work has appeared in exhibitions across Canada and internationally in the US and UK. She is the recipient of a Canada Council travel grant and was a purchase prize winner of the Royal Bank of Canada-funded Painting Competition, as well as a finalist for the Equitable Bank Emerging Digital Artist Award. Her work can be found in both corporate collections. www.clairescherzinger.com
Teras Hemon
Community Canoe
Taras Hemon (he/him) is a Hamilton based videographer and filmmaker. Hemon works primarily in documentary film, creating work that centers social justice causes and pushes for systematic change. Hemon recently completed an MFA in Documentary Media at X University, where he finished a short film titled “Thanks for Nothing,” which follows the experiences of a tenant facing eviction threats and displacement due to transit-related gentrification. www.cempreproductions.ca
After the screening video works will be screened in Farside Hamilton’s Street-level window located at 288 James Street North from December 15, 2021 – January 10, 2022.
Thank you to our presentation partner Farside Hamilton!
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