Day 1 - Fri Apr 22
3:00pm
The Image as its own Undoing
Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli
Rio Terra Foscarini 999/A. 30123 Venezia
Event Type:
On-site
Vernon Ah Kee, Sandra Brewster, Alan Michelson, Scott Benesiinaabandan
About the Artists

Vernon Ah Kee
Vernon Ah Kee’s conceptual text pieces, videos, photographs and drawings form a critique of Australian popular culture from the perspective of the Aboriginal experience of contemporary life. He particularly explores the dichotomy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal societies and cultures. Ah Kee’s works respond to the history of the romantic and exoticised portraiture of ‘primitives’, and effectively... Read more

Sandra Brewster
Sandra Brewster is a Toronto-based artist who engages with themes centred on identity, belonging, memory, and Black being within the Caribbean diaspora. She has been the recipient of the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize in 2018, and the Gattuso Prize for outstanding featured exhibition in the 2017 CONTACT Photography Festival. Recent solo exhibitions... Read more

Alan Michelson
Alan Michelson is an internationally recognized New York-based artist, curator, writer, lecturer and Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. For over thirty years, he has been a leading practitioner of a socially engaged, critically aware, site-specific art grounded in local context and informed by the retrieval of repressed histories. Recent exhibitions include... Read more

Scott Benesiinaabandan
Scott Benesiinaabandan is Anishinaabe, a member of Obishkkokaang/Lac Seul First Nations. Scott is an intermedia artist that currently works in experimental image making and sonic materials.Scott has completed a MFA in photography from Concordia University and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Scott’s current research interests are intersections of artificial-intelligence(s) and Anishinaabemowin. Scott has completed international residencies at... Read more