Collateral Damage, 2018,
Running time 8 minutes, 58 seconds.
Swans, native to Europe and eastern Asia, were brought
to North America as pets and ornamental birds in the
late 1800’s to early 1900’s. They have multiplied,
wiping out entire wetlands of submerged aquatic
vegetation, their preferred food source.
Their human-enforced migration has caused their
displacement and harm to their new environments.
Location/dis-location!-Part two 2017 
“A society without strangers would be impoverished;
to live only among ourselves, constantly inbreeding,
never facing an outsider to make us question again
and again our certainties and rules, would inevitably
lead to atrophy. The experience of encountering a stranger–
like the experience of suffering–is important and
creative; provided we know when to step back.”
–Elie Wiesel
The distance from Syria to Germany is approximately 3,700 kilometres.
For refugees fleeing the civil war the journey can take weeks, if not months.
No one travels for thousand of miles, carrying children
if not for HOPE
2017- Cine Cycle, Toronto, Ontario
Globalization is the norm and mobility is becoming more
commonplace and expected. We move without difficulty,
and “relatively” freely around the world. We move for
exhibitions, jobs, to live somewhere temporarily, and at a
“click” have the mandatory understanding of cultural
customs before we even get there. But do we! And with all
of this dis-location how do we reconcile our own cultural
identity?
2014 – ISEA2014 Dubai, U. A. I-Video installation
thank you to Steve Mack and The Kenneth G. Mills Foundation
erasure
2014 Whteout The Iris Group@The Toronto Art Council Space,
Richmond Street Toronto, Video installation
2016 Zattere Cultural Flow Zone, Dorsoduro 1392 , Italy
The Round Of “The Video Art Nights” Female Video Artists and The War? Contemporary Legacies Of The 900 Wars And The Role Of Women In Preserving The Common Memory.
Artworks By Marina Abramovic, Natalie Vanheule, Vanessa Gageos, Victoria Lucas, Estabrak Al Ansari, Anne O‘Callaghan
2017 Video Art Day#War Remembrance
January 28th 5:00 pm / in several cities in Italy and abroad, (Italy)
In Toronto all videos will be screened @ CineCycle January 28,
EMBODIED MEMORY / The memory of war through the matter
April 1st – 30th 2017 Villa Manin di Passariano, Italy
Arists: Nathalie Vanheuele, Boris Beja, Lang Ea, Cosima Montavoci, Claudio Beorchia, Luca Terenzi, Ana Mrovlje, Anitra Hamilton, Ilisie Remus, Ting Bao, Victoria Lucas, Vanessa Gageos, Anne O’ Callaghan, Mario Lo Prete, Nicolas Vamvouklis.
The fundamental role of women during the First World War (and more generally over the twentieth century wars), to date, has not yet been completely illuminated in its importance and tragedy: in fact, women have had to rebuild a world from the ashes and ruins of the conflict. A selection of female video-artist from the B#Side War International Festival testifies through powerful and symbolic images the perspective of today women on the conflict.
IMPERMANENCE
Vernissage: December the 8th 2017, to January the 27th, 2018
@ the B#S Gallery (Vicolo Isola di Mezzo 3/5, 31100, Treviso, Italy)
Impermanence is the first of three appointments with the Vanitas exhibition cycle. Artists: Claudio Beorchia, Sylvia Griffin, Coral Woodbury, Stelios Maganis, Lorenzo Bordonaro, Silvia Cavallari, Mario Loprete, Anne O’Callaghan, Carola Minicleri.
“every moment, every day, every week, every year
people die in conflicts,
the world one big war zone. mea culpa.
never again. till the next time, mea culpa
erased from our memory. mea culpa
till the next time” aoc
erasure is an on going project.
Thank you to:
Barbara Sternberg for participating in and filming the performance
David Nash for his participation-voice.
Michel Bouchard for editing.
Norman Verrall for technicial assistance