Taryn Kneteman

Statement

Taryn Kneteman creates installations with video, sculpture, and works on paper in which moving bodies and changes of state are momentarily suspended. Using tactile, process-intensive working methods that offer chances for unexpected intervention – from materials, weather, digital glitches, and feedback – she combines stretches of habitual routine with gestures of dream-like divergence. Her work considers the cyclical nature of seemingly permanent materials and reflects on the intricacies of their transitions.

GlogauAIR Project

Starting with the phrase lacrimae rerum (there are tears of/for things), I will create a video piece about tears as familiar yet difficult to translate secretions. The video will contrast naturally occurring tears with footage and research into eyedrop production. It will consider the movement of tears across the thresholds of inner and outer worlds. Filmed in my studio, living space, and among Berlin’s canals, the narrative will feel dreamlike – like transitioning between being above and below the surface of the water.

Installation, New media, and Video

CV Summary

Education

• 2012: Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Alberta, amiskwacîwâskahikan / Edmonton, Canada

Exhibitions

• 2024: (upcoming) Art Incubator Gallery, Harcourt House, Edmonton AB
• 2021: The Scene, curators Lindsey Sharman and Danielle Siemens, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton AB
• 2018: Breathing, Antimatter [media art], Victoria BC
• 2017: for the time being, curators Peta Rake and Kristy Trinier, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff AB
• 2015: After Aurora, Intersite Visual Arts Festival, Calgary AB
• 2015: Everyday Rituals: survival tactics, SNAP Community Gallery, Edmonton AB

Residencies

• 2022: International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York USA
• 2017: Public Art and Social Practice Workshop Series, The City of Calgary Public Art Program and Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary AB
• 2014: Re: Making thematic residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff AB

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