nichola feldman-kiss \ SIREN at Koffler Gallery Toronto 2022
installation photograph by Toni Hafkenscheid
nichola feldman-kiss \ SIREN at Koffler Gallery Toronto 2022
installation photograph by Toni Hafkenscheid
nichola feldman-kiss \ SIREN at Koffler Gallery Toronto 2022
installation photograph by Toni Hafkenscheid
study for Siren lll \ facing north at the USA–Canada Border 2019
irregular boarder crossing, Roxham Road foot path, North Star Road NY USA || Chemin Fisher QC CA
Siren IV 2021 \ digital tapestry
3D render, silk, 6 panels 42” wide x 120” tall.
an initial aversion to the plight of the sufferer. (Pietà) 2016 – continuing
window film, 17m wide x 4m tall, installation on Toronto City Hall, Nuit Blanche Toronto
2018
Siren 2018 – continuing \ Siren I 2018
performance document, women ululating to the passengers of a tall ship, sonic
intervention at Kajama Boat Tour, ArtSpin Toronto Canada
study for Scapegoat 2017–continuing \ Sidné 2018
work in progress
an initial aversion to the plight of the sufferer (Pietà) 2015 – continuing \ Omari 2015
1 of 5 silver-halide colour photo prints, 83 cm x variable life scale (63cm).
installation detail at the National Gallery of Jamaica Biennial 2017
The King's two Bodies 2016 \ Pinwheels II
1 of 3 TIFF files 76 MB
between here and there 2015 \ Bread and Circuses
76 world wide news sources. programming, synthetic speech software, network connection, 3
tablet computers, 3 sound isolating loud speakers. Installation New Adventures in Sound
Art at Interaccess Toronto Canada 2017. Photograph by Natalie Logan
Sisters 2012
1 of 2 channels audio / video installation, with naakita feldman-kiss (editor)
after Africa 2011 \ a yard of ashes (continuous cross dissolve)
indefinite video loop, part 2 of 3 channel audio / video installation, 3 UHD projectors, 3 parabolic speakers
after Africa 2011 \ "So long, Farewell" (sunset)
49:07 minute video loop, part 2 of 3 channel audio / video installation, 3 UHD projectors, 3 parabolic speakers
drive by good bye (traumatic reenactment) 2011
video still, 1 of 2 channel audio / video installation, as yet unrealised
childish objects 1966 – 2017 \ Undo, Unravel, Go back and further back, still, Go home. (Are you my Mother?) for Boty Goodwin 2001 – 2013
durational performance, 4 identity documents: European Community United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland (expired); Europäische Union
Bundesrepublik Deutschland Reisepass; Canada; Carabbean Community Jamaica
Passport.
childish objects 1966 – 2017 \ the camera eye (AKA witness) 1972, 2006-2017
proof of concept, CAD / CAM, 3D printed parts (plastics and metal alloys), miniature
camera, ocular prosthesis, borosilicate glass, saline, stones
childish objects 1966 – 2017 \ if i could nurture your pain then i would offer you my milk. if i could put you to sleep then i would sing you a lullaby. (Nurture) 1975, 2007
1 of 2 performance photographs, digital photo print, 75 x 50cm
childish objects 1966 – 2017 \ the public sleeping performance 2005
performance document, afternoon nap (4 1/2 hours) Canada Day, Commissioner’s Park, presented by Gallerie Saw Gallery Ottawa Canada
from the mean body database 2001 \ sides 2001-2007
multiple 3D whole body laser scans, algorithmic shape, backlight media, screen grab, light box, 107 x 107 x 20 cm, brushed aluminium frame
from the mean body database 2001 \ torso 2001 - 2006
1 of 4 digital sculptures, multiple 3D whole body laser scans, algorithmic shape, FDM thermoplastic 3D print 28 x 10 x 10cm
rest (in memory of Thelma Cullingham) 2003 – 2005 \ Thelma's gold lamé cocktail dress
performance document, 1 of 29 garments removed from the body, chromogenic projection
print, 75 x 100cm
from the mean body database 2001 \ Classically Bound / 120302 / 23:11.16 / 120302 / isbn 0-9735643-4-2 / 2006
1 3D whole body laser scan (standard posture), 12.4MB or 7,662 pages printed on Colonial bond, natural vegetable tanned pigskin, 23 x 29 x 58cm
from the mean body database 2001 \ i absolutely know i exist (AKA. 360 1º rotational views) 2005
1 3D whole body laser scan, 360 algorithmic screen grabs, 290 square meters, installed at
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa Canada 2006
from the mean body database 2001 \ study for mean body (standard posture) 2002
1 3D whole body laser scan, SLS rapid prototype (3D print), stainless steel, 29cm tall
from the reliquarium database 2000 \ Y2K listserv diary performance document
45 of 254 2D scanned 3D objects, 47 of 254 self-authored, borrowed and plagiarised texts, 92 framed digital photo prints 25 x 25cm, installed at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada 2015
I work as an I am interested in and the of where and too.
and and and and too.
The things I make result from focussed looking, chasing references, finding out. Burrowing through the network into curiously real and visceral worlds. Alice fell through the trembling landed somewhere feeling for its but for that embodied –
I submit to art as life and aiming to work and from my as a of our I am conspicuously bodied. My artworks deploy body as The I do not create with the topic of bodies as purpose or intention. My work is not conceptual in that way. My artworks are stills for and of life to my times. on I create with whatever surfaces then sticks around to assert itself.
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