Entries for June 2011

Adad Hannah, was born in 1971 in New York and is a Montreal-based video artist. His work focuses primarily on the intersection between photography, performance and video, usually in the form of video-recorded tableaux vivants. In 2004 he won the Toronto Images Festival Installation/New Media Award and the Bogdanka Poznanovic Award at Videomedeja 8.   ±

Nelson Henricks was born in Bow Island, Alberta and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art (1986). He moved to Montreal in 1991, where he received a BFA from Concordia University (1994). Henricks lives and works in Montreal, where he has taught at Concordia University (1995 - present), McGill University (2001-03) and the Université du Québec à Montréal (1999, 2003).   ±

Since 1984 Paul Landon has exhibited his videos and installations in museums in Quebec and the rest of Canada, in galleries and exhibition centres in North America and Europe and in festivals around the world. In 1989, he graduated from the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands, where he studied audio and video.   ±

Pierce studied music composition, especially jazz and electronic music, before making films. In fact, his first move into filmmaking came about from his frustration with the lack of a visual component to taped music. It is a continuation of this early interest in music and the construction of emotional experiences in time which continue to guide his work.   ±