Visual Arts - Embodied Making: Performance Art, Images and Objects

Visual Arts residencies at Banff Centre are structured programs of faculty-led activity and mentorship, supporting project-based studio practice. Banff Centre’s Embodied Making residency is a five-week program that provides studio access, technical resources, mentorship, and dialogue with other artists. Artists are invited to think expansively about performance, and how performance emerges through movement, stillness, reading, listening, endurance, care and collective action. Further, this program invites artists to investigate the ways that performance and materiality intersect, considering how images and forms are activated, transformed, and given meaning through embodied interaction. Through individual studio-based experimentation and collective inquiry, artists will explore and create new relationships between bodies, objects, and spaces. Banff’s extraordinary landscape and natural surroundings inevitably become collaborators in the creative process, offering opportunities for site-responsive and place-based investigations.