naakita feldman-kiss's audiovisual installations are a means of listening to, translating and telling stories related to shifting landscapes, abstract forms of inheritance and legacy, and the flexibility of memory. His works often take the form of performative gestures representing portraits of interior and exterior spaces. The sound environments incorporate eco-acoustics and tell narratives that use autofiction and emphasize non-linear temporalities to examine different interpretations of the concept of legacy. His current research uses the concept of hauntology to explore the impacts of extractive industry and the colonial project on built and natural environments, while imagining the possible futures contained within a haunted place.

BIOGRAPHY

naakita feldman-kiss is a queer, multidisciplinary, mixed-roots artist who lives and works in Tio'Tia:Ke/Mooniyang/Montreal.QC. Her work has been presented at MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2012); Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON (2016); Knot Project Space, Ottawa, ON (2018); Mémoire de l'Avenir, Paris, FR (2019); EXPRESSION, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC (2020); and MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montréal, QC (2022). Iel has received research and production grants from the Centre de ressources en arts numériques (2018), the Montreal Jewish Museum (2020), Les Jardins de Métis (2021) and the Canada Council for the Arts (2020, 2021, 2022). In winter 2023, feldman-kiss will be in residence at Gare Matapédia as part of the Darling Foundry's 2022-2023 cross-residency program.

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RECENT EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

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2022    

Tu m'enveloppes et je te contiens, Group exhibition, Darling Foundry

2021    

Stone Tape, Video installation, Jardins de Métis, Grand-Métis, QC 

The World is My Home, Group show, Videofenster, Cologne, Denmark

2020    

Rencontre avec l'autre soi-même, Group show, EXPRESSION, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC  

2019    

Beyond the Veil, Group show, Mémoire de l'Avenir, Paris, France

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