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feldman-kiss

níchola

nichola feldman-kiss is a trans-disciplinary artist researching corporeality, identity and autobiography. The artist implicates self-reflexive narratives in her performative exploration of body, gaze, sociality, and selfhood. She enslaves technology to ideas –mining personal histories, performing the self through the work, submitting to the artistic process. feldman-kiss has participated in studio residencies including: Canada’s National Research Council where she produced the mean body database (2001-2007), a suite of works in self portraiture examining the idealized material body and applying 3D body scanning and digital sculpting technologies; the Ottawa Eye Institute (2008), she studied the anatomy of human vision alongside ophthalmic surgical residents, through direct experience of the body object’s morbidity and mortality; and most recently, the Canadian Armed Forces (2011) with whom she trained for peace service in conflict zones culminating with deployment to the UN Mission in Sudan to study protection, life-threat and collective psychic trauma and to bear witness to civil disorder, social unrest and violent conflict. feldman-kiss’s hybrid media installations, characterized by the pristine, sterile elegance of mechanism, of the clinic and of the laboratory, subtly and subversively disturb that which we take for granted – asking us to reconsider the hard questions about being conscious social bodies among the tattered boundaries of the digital age.

nichola feldman-kiss ©2012

$a yard of ashes (continuous cross dissolve), 2012 \ multi-channel hd video installation$