Lecture performance at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
2019
In Sick Speech, I take up the posthumous position of Nasim Aghdam, former social media star later known as the YouTube shooter. Oscillating between news media reporting, my own text, found imagery and staged photos, I reframe her story within the context of immigration trauma and misogyny, applying a feminist perspective to societal reactions towards her and her actions.
Photos courtesy of the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
Photography by Jessica Wittman
Upcoming:
Participating artist at the Arts, Culture and Digital Transformation Summit at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativitypresenting a new lecture performance on social media, gender and the performance of violence.
Politics of Immersive Experience (tentative title), a forthcoming book that looks at the links between ethnographic practice and immersive media technologies. Co-written with Julia Yezbick.
Recent
Hook & Loop in collaboration with Cedric Tai at Mast on Fig, Los Angeles
And Laid Him On The Green, is a live performance created in collaboration with James Rushford for Gertrude Contemporary’s exhibition Octopus 19: Ventriloquy, curated by Joel Stern and presented by Liquid Architecture.
Solo exhibition, It’s Tricky, at SEVENTH, Melbourne
Screening of Epicurus’ Conundrum at Projections, Melbourne
Screening of Epicurus’ Conundrum at Femmebit Festival 2019
Participating artist at the Arts, Culture and Digital Transformation Summit at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativitypresenting a new lecture performance on social media, gender and the performance of violence.
Politics of Immersive Experience (tentative title), a forthcoming book that looks at the links between ethnographic practice and immersive media technologies. Co-written with Julia Yezbick.
Recent
Hook & Loop in collaboration with Cedric Tai at Mast on Fig, Los Angeles
And Laid Him On The Green, is a live performance created in collaboration with James Rushford for Gertrude Contemporary’s exhibition Octopus 19: Ventriloquy, curated by Joel Stern and presented by Liquid Architecture.
Solo exhibition, It’s Tricky, at SEVENTH, Melbourne
Screening of Epicurus’ Conundrum at Projections, Melbourne
Screening of Epicurus’ Conundrum at Femmebit Festival 2019
Contact rachel.yezbick[@]gmail.com
Photography by: Cedric Tai, Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman and Zach Korol-Gold