groundwork: Zoe Kreye
Episode III of groundwork features artist Zoe Kreye!
groundwork is a small series of videos from artists about how they find grounding in their creative practices and their surroundings. In this final instalment of the series, Zoe offers a meditative space of tactility, touch, and tenderness, as well as an exercise of self-love.⠀
Please note: Zoe speaks partway through the video; keep your sound on to catch it!
From Zoe:
I create interdisciplinary art projects that explore transformation, embodiment and collective experience. Working in the realms of sculpture, dance/movement, drawing and somatics my projects take shape as installations, performance, workshops, rituals and journeys. I am interested in making inclusive connections that have the potential to be small catalysts for change within dominant social systems. My final artworks invite people to embody the transformative capacity of image and sensation while encouraging a deeper self-reflection within themselves and society. Recent projects include Rituals for Pleasure and Dionysus (Griffin Art Projects), De Fem (WAAP), Make Our Own Air (SPACE London), Our Missing Body (Western Front, Kamloops Art Gallery), FutureLoss (grunt gallery), Unlearning Practices (Unit Pitt, Goethe Satellite, Graz). I have studied Public Art, Social Practice and sculpture at the Bauhaus University Weimar (MFA), Concordia University Montreal (BFA) and Camosun College. I am a working artist, mother, and instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. I am a white settler that has the privilege to live and learn in Vancouver, the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
Download the free poster featured in the video at ZOEKREYE.CA
Video references:
RESMAA MENAKEM 'My Grandmother's Hands'
LYGIA CLARK 'The Abandonment of Art'
ROBERT MACFARLANE 'Underland'
FREDERICK LEBOYER 'Loving Hands'
KREYE FAMILY ARCHIVE
Featuring:
ZOE KREYE
BRENT WADDEN
SARAH MARCOTTE
ELLA MARCOTTE
EMRY & OLA
JEN MCNEELY
JEN HARVEY
LUCIANA FREIRE D'ANANCIACAO
