Speaker: Aaron
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About the spreaker
A Montreal-based performance, installation and video artist, Aaron maintains a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary practice that includes writing, creating, performing, teaching, and curating. He has created and presented artworks across Canada and to international audiences since the early 1990s. Aaron’s long standing preoccupations include challenging narrative forms, the ephemerality of live art, intersectional dialectics and the discursive power of landscape. He is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Media Division), and he obtained an MFA in Studio Arts (Open Media) from Concordia University. Throughout the years, Aaron has assisted colleagues in deploying video and electronic media within their creative pursuits, including artists such as Ila Firouzabadi, Tammy Forsythe, Eman Haram, Shari Hatt, Diane Landry, Payam Mofidi, Chantal Neveu, Cheryl Simon and Laurel Woodcock. He has created video projections for various stage projects by Les Filles Électriques, opera and new music director Keith Turnbull, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company, and The Scandelles. Curatorial practice has included mixed programs of video and film works for various festivals and events, and collaborative group shows such as the international collaboration Où sommes-nous/Where are we. (Canada/Switzerland). Aaron has worked as a board member and advisor within the artist-run culture of Montreal, including holding positions on the board of directors of CQAM and the RAIQ (now known as REPAIRE). For over 20 years, he was a member of the team at the visual, media and digital arts production and exhibition centre OBORO, where his last position was that of Researcher and Head of OBORO’s Multimedia Sector (New Media Lab). For over 25 years, Aaron collaborated with Montreal artist Stephen Lawson, on multimedia performances, video and installation works that toured nationally and abroad.