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.
Photodynamic Gardening. Making images with plants. Experimental ethnography. Leaves of stinging nettle, mashed up rose and bee balm petals, elderberry fruit.
I’ve been invited to the Bard Center for Experimental Humanities to install my work March 7-18, 2019. I’ll be installing my Drift Camera, video of the breath camera and hosting a workshop on cultivating the…
On the occasion of this year’s meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, the heart of Silicon Valley, we’ve organized a round table called Bad Habitus: Multimodal Anthropology in the Age of the…
Fugitives in the Archive opens today and runs until January 2019. (Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy) The exhibition is based on our research-creation work in the BC Archives. We interviewed archivists and conservators about…
Anarchival Materiality: The Bauhaus Building in Dessau Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, and Oliver Neumann Abstract In this essay we present a series of images remediating photographs related to the Bauhaus building in Dessau, and…
Drift Camera at Urbanite, AGGV September 2018. I’m looking forward to working with the Drift Camera (a continuous slow movement) at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria on September 28 as part of Urbanite. Come…
Public Journal September 2018. The new issue of Public Journal has dropped! Kate Hennessy and I have an article in the latest issue Archive/Counter Archive, called Fugitives, Anarchival Materiality in Archives about our work at…
Chinese Photography August 2018. My work, Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park was featured in the August 2018 edition of the journal, Chinese Photography. In the article, Zhong Hualian writes about connections between…
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.
