Jessica MacCormack

My art combines various elements such as interactivity, performance, intervention, installation and video to investigate social spaces by implicating the viewer/participant in the processes that make events meaningful, while destabilizing ideas of high culture for a politically/socially engaged content. Artist-run center culture, performance collectives and collaborations are also part of my practice. This has also included an ongoing commitment to working with women and youth who are dealing with issues of criminalization through the creation of art projects in prisons as well as at Crossing Communities Art Project in Winnipeg. In 2008, I completed an MFA through the Public Art and New Artistic Strategies program at Bauhaus University (Germany).