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SUNday, April 21, 3:30 pm
ARTIST IN THE HOUSE
Amy Siegel is an artist, educator and organizer of artistic projects. She works across diverse media
including video, performance, projection art, installation and community-engaged art. Her work
strives to challenge conventional methods of storytelling while exploring themes of transformation
and transcendence. She is particularly interested in shadows – shadows as the space beyond light
both visually (in terms of projection and illusion) and metaphorically (exploring dream worlds,
death, and shadow selves).
Amy is currently the Creative Director of the ReFrame Film Festival a documentary film and art
festival in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough that focuses on social and environmental justice. She
holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University and an MA in Adult Education and
Community Development from the University of Toronto.
Amy’s recent work has been exploring the relationship between dreams and documentation. Can
a document capture at once the inner world and the public reality and how we are defining these
borders? Working with intuition, improvisation and experimentation she will be exploring the limits
and possibilities of the film medium to capture the subconscious.
One of the ways she will be exploring these issues during her residency will be wrapping up a
multi-year collaboration with the League of Lady Wrestlers. As a wrestler herself, she was most
interested in the profound relationship developed between wrestlers and their invented personae.
She will be creating a performative documentary that explores tensions between truth/reality,
document/fiction and human/character. Amy will be working with the League’s archival footage,
staging vignettes and interviews, as well as editing her own footage from Toronto and Dawson
City, including the League’s historic final performance, Thunderdome.
Founded in 2001, in a partnership with Parks Canada, the KIAC Artist in Residence Program has welcomed
over 300 talented artists, musicians and filmmakers to Dawson City from all regions of Canada and around
the world. Our alumni include Sobey Art Award nominees, Western Canada Music Award winners, and
prize-winning filmmakers from film festivals across the globe. Former KIAC residents have work in permanent
collections at the National Gallery of Canada, the Metropolitan Museum (New York), the Vancouver Art Gallery
and the Yukon Arts Centre, and have presented work at some of the world’s premier venues: MoMA New
York, the Georges Pompidou Centre (Paris), Documenta, Venice Biennale, Whitney Museum, and Art Gallery of
Ontario, among many others.
The residency is in historic Macaulay House (owned by Parks Canada, who maintains Macaulay House as part of
the Klondike National Historic Sites Complex).
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