A photograph of Trudi Lynn Smith and Kemi Craig's feet and a 4x5 view view camera pointed at the photodynamic garden — The 4x5 field camera at the photodynamic garden

Projects

Open air photography

ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 12, 2024July 25, 2024

on most Wednesdays from 10am -12 pm, City of Victoria Artist in Residence Kemi Craig and I can be found at the Photodynamic Garden at Wark Street Commons located on unceded Lkwungen territory.

We’re garden building, loitering with photography, encountering and nurturing a more than capitalistic, machine-ic photography. All are welcome to join us and join in on cultivating an experimental, open air photography, sun room photography… Each week holds something a little different, anthotype making, experimental emulsions and developers, soil building, chats and camera play….

Documentation of a Drift Camera installed at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

A continuous slow movement (drift camera)

ByTrudi Lynn Smith September 21, 2019August 15, 2023

Through the process of erasure, dispossession and construction that industrial forestry relies upon, forests are created as trees, logs and timber, harvested, moved into water, and transported to sort yards for processing.

still from the 15 minute video studies for the perfect moment by Trudi Lynn Smith and Krista Caballero

Studies for Making and Unmaking

ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 20, 2018August 15, 2023

A 15 minute film loop that brings together digital and analogue archives into projections and performances. Making and unmaking encounters, curved by gusting winds, the squeak of technological breakdown, and the distortion of projections on paper.

Becoming anarchival

ByTrudi Lynn Smith October 10, 2024October 10, 2024

Becoming Anarchival This fall, Kate Hennessy and I are presenting our collaborative work at 881 Gallery in Vancouver. The work emerges from fieldwork around a defunded paleontology research centre in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. We…

Conduit: Open Space

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016March 4, 2023

Using the central skylight in a gallery as a starting point, Jamie Drouin and I direct frequencies into the Open Space Arts Society space using simple lenses, mirrors and antennae. (2011-2013).

Anarchival materiality

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2018August 15, 2023

Anarchival materiality within archives is an ongoing research-creation project that documents the generative force of entropy in archives. The force of molecular transformation, violence, displacement, and other human and non-human agencies render archival materials as fugitives, both eluding and driving preservation.

Ethnographic Terminalia

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016March 4, 2023

The Ethnographic Terminalia curatorial collective explores the boundaries of anthropology and art through exhibitions, experimental installations, events and publications. Working since 2009, we’ve shown more than 150 artists in locations across North America.

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