Knot Project Space presented a conversation between with naakita feldman-kiss, Nelly Matorina and Ivanie Aubin-Malo, moderated by Ottawa-based artist, filmmaker and choreographer, Laura Taler. This conversation was presented as part of a series of events that brought together three young artists exploring intergenerational exchange (understood as the processes of learning, modes of relation and collaborative exercises that occur between generations) in their respective artistic practices. feldman-kiss, Matorina and Aubin-Malo each approached the terrain of the intergenerational from distinct points of origin. Through their work with the moving image, installation and performance, each engaged with the flows of knowledge and experience that occur between generations, as transmitters and receivers, teachers and mediators, searchers and protectors.
Laura Taler
Romanian-born Canadian artist Laura Taler began her career as a contemporary dance choreographer before turning her attention to filmmaking and visual art. Throughout her career Taler has explored the links between movement, memory, and history by using cinematic and choreographic devices to articulate how the body is able to carry the past without being oppressed by it.
naakita feldman-kiss
naakita feldman-kiss is an artist of mixed roots currently working between Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Her practice examines intergenerational memory, liminal identities and contemporary applications of oral tradition. feldman-kiss’ aesthetic explorations manifest in transmedia with a focus on text-based, performative, technological and social artworks.
Ivanie Aubin-Malo
Upon graduating from l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal in 2014, Ivanie Aubin-Malo met mentor Curtis Joe Miller, who taught her the Fancy Shawl Dance. Honoring her Maliseet roots, Ivanie dances and approaches subjects in relation to her Indigenous identity.
Nelly Matorina
Nelly Matorina is an artist and scientist exploring themes of migration, sleep, and memory through video, installation, experimentation, and data analysis. Her latest series of installations looks at intergenerational memory in a post-soviet context.
Related Programming
Exhibition: Wednesdays, Before Piano., naakita feldman-kiss. June 28 – Aug. 4, 2018. Knot Project Space.
Performance: Où sont les ancêtres, Ivanie Aubin-Malo. July 26, 2018. Knot Project Space.
Exhibition: Don’t Forget to Call, Nelly Matorina. July 27 – 28, 2018. Knot Project Space.