Artist Statement

Tags: Experimental Video, Sound Art

wassaygane abi-mazina’igan | maps of home and glowing bones (2020) is an experimental video and sonic work. Using a variety of technologies and strategies, the work seeks to create maps to better see living space-times I consider (a) home. In this work, I am relying on the extra-sensory abilities of technologies to allow me to see more clearly what is often hiddenness of home. Home as a living space regardless of my own awareness of it. A personal attempt to becomes friends with spaces lost to time and shortness of the senses.

• Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinaabe (Obishkkokaang) iintermedia artist that works primarily in photography,video, audio and printmaking. Scott has completed an international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia, Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland, and University Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency, along with international collaborative projects in both the U.K and Ireland. Scott is currently based in Montreal, where he is completing a MFA in Photography, where is also a long running artist-in-residency at OBx Labs/Ab-TeC and Initiative for Indigenous Futures. He is currently investigating new mediums such as audio works, light sculptures and virtual -reality.