Composed of members Alexia Hovis, Niloufar Jalal-Zadeh, Katrina Jurjans and Mehdi Latifian, elsewhere is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based, emerging artist collective that brings together independent practices in the fields of painting, film, installation, and architecture to interrogate the intersections of space, image, narrative, and emotion. Materially working through reflections of the built environment, interior and political landscapes and human perception, each work is approached as the temporary coming together of many different parts.
PROJECTS
Loom at Trinity
A cyclical piece of ‘spatial poetry’, Loom (at Trinity) took over the Church of the Holy Trinity, sitting on a historically contested site between Toronto’s Old City Hall and its iconic monument to commerce, the Eaton Centre for one night for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche festival. Weaving past with present, Loom (at Trinity) drew upon the site's rich history of ritual, resistance and conflict. Recorded in 1987 in this very hall, echoed distortions of "Mining for Gold" interlaced with projections, capturing impressions grounded in the ceaseless debate over "forever free and unappropriated" access to the public realm, urban, virtual and otherwise.
Crack in the Case is a multimedia installation that frames and reframes an unfolding dialogue in perpetual transformation. A tapestry of intersecting ribbon screens capture and fragment a two-channel broadcast in constant conversation, woven from personal videos, hand drawn animations and found footage. Assembled into a narrative pendulum that swings back and forth through cycles of harmony and dissonance, the entangled projections fuse with a soundscape built upon morphing voices that circle past each other, creating patterns of interference and synchronicity. As endings morph into beginnings and boundaries emerge and disappear, the case withholds and reveals the ever-shifting dimensions of the dialogue on display.
image by Remi Carreiro
image by Remi Carreiro
image by Remi Carreiro
image by Remi Carreiro
image by Remi Carreiro
Round A/Void is the first of an iterative, multimedia, installation series that falls within the overlaps of interactive theatre, expanded cinema, and architectural intervention. At the heart of the series stands a 8x8 foot, two-way mirror cube, surrounded by surreal sets, each centering a familiar furniture; bed, bath, dining table and sofa. Evoking distinct yet universally embodied impressions, these four domestic archetypes and their multitude of connotations, act as the backbone of a dream narrative that unfolds in time and space through an autonomous theatrical performance of lights, projections and soundscapes. As the walls of the cube oscillate between reflective surface and transparent threshold in relation to exterior shifting light and interior visual projections, the space and its occupants become immersed in a continual state of transformation. In this mercurial imagining of an archetypal house, as bodies and spaces overlap, collage, fragment, appear and disappear, so do the boundaries of set, performance and audience.