BIO : Alexandra Gelis
Alexandra Gelis is a Colombian-Venezuelan-Canadian artist and educator.
She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies.
Her studio practice combines film, new media installation, and photography with custom-built interactive electronics. Her projects incorporate personal field research as a tool to investigate the ecologies of various landscapes through examining the traces left by various socio-political interventions. She has done extensive research on the relationship between plants/people and power in colonization and globalization. From her plant-based research-creation: she explores, documents and re-creates ecologies that take shape between plants and people and between plants and their multi-species interrelationships. The idea of plants as political allies is central to her "Migrated Plants" concept.
She uses data capture techniques, film, video, sound and electronic media to create immersive non-fiction-based installations, single-channel videos and experimental photography.
She has exhibited internationally in North and South America, including the Walker Art Center, Europe and Africa.
She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies.
Her studio practice combines film, new media installation, and photography with custom-built interactive electronics. Her projects incorporate personal field research as a tool to investigate the ecologies of various landscapes through examining the traces left by various socio-political interventions. She has done extensive research on the relationship between plants/people and power in colonization and globalization. From her plant-based research-creation: she explores, documents and re-creates ecologies that take shape between plants and people and between plants and their multi-species interrelationships. The idea of plants as political allies is central to her "Migrated Plants" concept.
She uses data capture techniques, film, video, sound and electronic media to create immersive non-fiction-based installations, single-channel videos and experimental photography.
She has exhibited internationally in North and South America, including the Walker Art Center, Europe and Africa.