EDUCATION |
l998 – 2000
l978 – 1981
l976 – 1977 |
York University: MFA Visual Arts
Ontario College of Art: AOAC Experimental Arts
H.B.Beal Technical School: SSGD Special Art Program |
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SELECTED VIDEO/FILM PRODUCTIONS AND SCREENINGS |
2017 |
Fire in the hole, collaborative intervention (socially engaged foraging & eating; video and mobile projection) in Linda Duvall’s “in the hole” project, Saskatchewan |
2016 |
BURSTING AT THE SEAMS Community based video: a collaborative production with a coalition of anti poverty organizations, projected onto Mayor John Tory’s condo, Toronto |
2016 |
What World Do You Live In? and Test#1 (screening & workshop with mashed economies collective), Radical Film Network Film Festival and Unconference, Glasgow, Scotland |
2013-2016 |
Meeting Place Organic Film, Community based video exploring the history of an organic farm and permaculture in Southwestern Ontario, with the McQuail Family and related communities, Lucknow Ontario |
2011-2014 |
Sanctuary Stories, Community video project documenting and critiquing police violence against vulnerable adults. Culminated in feature length video What World Do You Live In?, Screenings in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago. (Special Selection Feature Prize, (in)Justice Film Festival) |
2014 |
Dark/Light, collaborative video with Mashed Economies, the Monday Art Group and Hazel Bell Koski |
2013 |
Autorganizaciones, participant/collaborator, internet collective video project by Alexandra Gelis |
2012 |
The Unknown Migrant, banner & performance @ Immigrant Movement International & Migrant Justice Event, Toronto, Canada. |
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search>scan>any body>three sisters, single channel video |
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that was then, single channel video, for autorganizaciones |
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Mr. Businessman’s Blues, music video, collaboration with Diem Lafortune, screening online and at ImagineNative Festival, Toronto. |
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Abundant Futures, performance/workshop/lecture/edible sculpture ritual/organ auction, with Kim Jackson at Cool Hand of a Girl, Toronto. |
2011 |
Occupy Y(our) Life, screening/performance/workshop/ritual/edible sculpture, Ford City, Windsor Ontario. Collaboration with Kim Jackson |
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search>geography>erasure>affect, single channel video essay. Screenings: G.I.V. Montreal, |
2010 |
why are we marching?, a collaborative video poem with Michael J. Paul-Martin, 2010 |
2009 |
Dehcho Ndehe Gha Nadaots’ehthe: Fighting for Our Land, community based video with the Dehcho First Nations. Running time: 1 hr 8 min., screenings: Dene National Assembly, OISE Toronto and Kairos, Ottawa. |
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search>echolocation>open sky, audio video installation, real time audio mixed with prerecorded soundtrack to create a new soundtrack daily. solo exhibition: Open Sky Arts Festival and Open Sky Gallery, Ft Simpson NWT. |
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Northern Exchange, 12 min, mini DV, The Money Project Screenings, The Junction, Toronto, community screening, Montreal |
2004 |
Breathless 2003, 2 min, mini DV. Tranztech Media Arts Festival and Olive Project website. |
2003 |
Homeless in Toronto: Fighting Back, 27:00, a Paper Tiger Television production, co-produced with Deedee Halleck and OCAD students |
2002 |
Safe Park, 47 min, mini DV/Betacam. Allen Gardens and Bloor Cinema screenings, 2001; May Works, Toronto, 2003 |
2002 |
Rooster Rock, 30 min, mini DV. Collaborative project with Bonnie Devine. Best Experimental Film Award at ImagineNative film festival, Toronto; Heard Museum Indigenous Film Festival, Arizona |
2001 |
Double Bewitched, 5 min, 30 sec Hi 8 and Digital (mini DV), two monitor installation. Trinity Square Video screening, 2000 |
1999 |
Mahoso: The Child in an Age of Insecurity, 9:10 min, Hi 8, mastered on Betacam SP, Screened in “Possible Maps” series, curated by Michael Balser, V-Tape l999; and ‘4×4’, Jackman Hall, A.G.O., 1999. |
l998 |
Foodland, 5 min. NTSC Hi8, mastered on BetacamSP, screened at YYZ Toronto, l999; and G.I.V. Montreal, l999. |
l997 |
It’s Good for Us, 32 min.Pal VHS, mastered on Pal SVHS, screened at Dadaab Refugee Camps and various CARE venues. |
l995 |
The Kamila Band and the BWJWG, 9 minutes Pal Betacam, mastered on Betacam, screened on NBC in September, l995. |
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The Bukhayo West Joint Women’s Groups in Action, 32 minutes NTSC Hi 8, mastered on Pal SVHS, screened at BWJWG venues in Busia; Nairobi, Kenya and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. |
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Continental Drift,54 minutes Hi 8, mastered on Betacam SP, screened on Vision TV, Toronto and Launch at Kine 3, sponsored by Canadian High Commission, Harare Zimbabwe. |
l994 |
One Community, One Sweat,28:10 minutes Video 8 mastered on Betacam screened at Community Publishing Program, Harare Zimbabwe. |
l992 |
returning takes time,18:56 minutes, shot and mastered on Betacam,
screened at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. |
l99l |
a moment of pure feeling, 7 minutes Shot and mastered on Betacam. |
l990 |
Second Language, 30 min, ¾” Umatic, screened at The Funnel, Toronto. |
l981 |
Cine Blanc, S-8 film transferred to video collaboration with Jorge Lozano The Funnel, Toronto London Video Arts, London, England. |
l980 |
And and Out, S-8 films The Funnel, Toronto. |
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
2010 |
Echolocation Open Sky, mixed media installation (video, interactive audio, painting), solo exhibition, Open Sky Gallery, Ft Simpson, NWT. |
2000 |
Scratching the Surface, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto (Parking Lot), two monitor mobile video installation in the back of an ’89 Honda Civic Hatchback. |
2000 |
Sites of Struggle, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto. Three video installations, solo show. |
l992 |
an ordered absence, Delta Gallery, Zimbabwe. Mixed media installation, solo show. |
l991 |
structural adjustments, National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Mixed media installation, group show. |
l990 |
Soul Containers, Gallery Delta, Zimbabwe. Multi media installation,solo show. |
l990 |
Secrets, Gallery Delta, Zimbabwe. Mixed media installation solo show. |
l989 |
a moment of pure feeling, Grace Hopper Gallery, Toronto. Mixed media and 16 mm film installation, group show. |
l987 |
Girl Asleep and Why She Died, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, photo collages on canvas group show. |
l986 |
Crazy Jane and the Torrent Men, in Dark/Light (3 person show with Judith Barry and James Coleman, curated by Elke Town) YYZ gallery, Toronto16 mm film installation. |
l984 |
Public School, YYZ gallery, Toronto multi media installation solo show. |
l983 |
Public School, Cinema & Ideology (2 person show with Lyne LaPointe, curated by Martha Fleming)P.S.1, New York multi media installation. |
l982 |
(More) Utopia, in Monumenta, A Space, Toronto photo collage, group show. |
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Site Specific, Chromozone, Toronto mixed media. |
l981 |
Project for a Divided House, Gallery 76, Toronto film installation, solo show. |
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Factions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Collaboration with Jorge Lozano: multi media performance. |
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RELATED EXPERIENCE |
2013-present |
External Committee Member, York U. Fine Arts Practice Based Phd Graduate Program |
2012 |
Autorganizaciones, internet video curatorial project, with Alexandra
Gelis, Kim Jackson and Riaz Mehmood, International |
2011-ongoing |
Sanctuary/Pebble Beach, community video project documenting police
violence against vulnerable adults, Toronto |
2008-2010 |
Collaborator/Participant, The Money Project, a community video project
Initiated by Kim Jackson. Screenings in the Junction Toronto & Montreal |
2010 |
Health, Embodiment and Visual Culture Conference, Panelist: search > three sisters presentation on “Informed Consent” panel |
2007 |
Visible Evidence Conference, Panelist: Resisting Borders: Canadian Video Artists Approaches to Identity and Trans-local Cultural Exchanges, Chair: Dot Tuer |
2003 |
The Olive Project (curatorial), a web-based international video art initiative by the Hard Pressed Collective, launched at Tranztech and viewable at charlesstreetvideo.com |
2000 – 2006 |
President, Board of Directors, Charles Street Video |
2003 |
Course Director, “Theory & Practice for Independent Production”; “Advanced Video for Artists”; “Integrated Media Fundamentals”; OCAD |
2002 |
Course Director, “Film, Video and Social Change”; “Advanced Video 1” |
2001 – 2002 |
Course Director, “Video Art”, York University. |
2000 – 2001 |
Course Director, “But Why Is It Art?”, University of Toronto at Scarborough. |
l998 – 2000 |
Board of Directors, Charles Street Video |
2000 |
Studio Instructor, “Time-Based Art”, York University. |
1999 |
Teaching Assistant, “Critical Issues in Contemporary Art”, York U. |
1998 |
Teaching Assistant, “Critical Issues in Contemporary Art”, York U, |
1995 |
Studio Instructor, “Crossing Boundaries”, York University. |
l989 – l993 |
Consultant, Trainer and Producer of a community-based video project for Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya. |
l981 – l986 |
Consultant, Producer and Facilitator of a community based video project for Bakhayo West Joint Women’s Groups, Busia,, Kenya. |
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Visiting Artist in Residence, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe |
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Board of Directors, YYZ Artists’ run gallery, Toronto, Canada. |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
2016 |
Art, Labour and Precarity in the Age of Veneer Politics,Rebecca Garrett & Liza Kim Jackson, Alternate Routes, 2016 |
2007 |
Good Red, by Annie Holmes. Edited by Rebecca Garrett and Deborah Root. Published by PUBLIC. |
2005 |
Waiting for the Sky to Fall by John Greyson, in Surface Tension: Essays on Video, V-Tape, 2005 |
2003 |
PUBLIC 27, Co-editor (with Dot Tuer and Deborah Root) of thematic issue (‘shop’) of arts and culture journal |
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The Woman with the Box; Siya So. Image/text collaborative pieces with Munya Madzima. In PUBLIC 27: Shop |
l999 |
“Transactions”, Rebecca Garrett, Gallery Magazine #20, Harare Zimbabwe. |
l994 |
“Continental Drift”, Review by Olley Maruma, Harare Sunday Times, November, Zimbabwe. |
l993 |
“Continental Drift #2: Young men”, Artists’ project, ‘C’ magazine, Spring, Toronto. |
l990 |
“Art has Ironic Look at Developing Countries”. Review by Tony Mhonda, The Harare Herald, Zimbabwe. |
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“Dance On”, Artists’ project, ‘C’ magazine, Toronto. |
l987 |
“London Life Young Contemporaries”, exhibition catalogue, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario. |
l986 |
“Rebecca Garrett”, in “Dark/Light (James Coleman, Judith Barry, Rebecca Garrett)”, exhibition catalogue by Elke Town, YYZ, Toronto |
l984 |
“The Problem: A Peripatetic Soap Opera”, Artists’ project, Impulse magazine, Toronto. |
l983 |
“Cinema and Ideology: Rebecca Garrett and Lyne LaPointe”, P.S.1 catalogue, Queens, New York. |
l98l |
“Project for a Divided House”, Review by Martha Fleming, Vanguard September, Vancouver |