| TROY
Gronsdahl |
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| SELECTED WORKS IN VIDEO 2010 back and gone
SELECTED WORKS IN OTHER MEDIA 2006 The Secret
to Looking Back
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statement |
ARTIST STATEMENT I am an emerging multidisciplinary artist and cultural worker based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I have been active in the Saskatoon arts community as a volunteer, board member and contract worker. I have maintained an interdisciplinary art practice, producing music for national and international release and exhibiting my visual art productions at the local and national levels. Over the past few years, I have developed a body of video-based work that explores notions of vulnerability. My motivation is to complicate or subvert the prevalent western entertainment media narrative through the production and presentation of intimate video portraits. Working in close proximity with my subjects -- frequently family members or close acquaintances -- I record private moments and simple, unscripted performances. I attempt to mitigate the often clumsy, intrusive presence of the camera by working in an environment of trust. The process requires sensitivity as I negotiate delicate social boundaries. The videos are frank and sincere, at times complicated by underlying tones of personal transgression. I am interested in memory and the popular western cultural modes of remembering and memorializing. I am intrigued by photographic practices that have developed to this end, particularly the ongoing developments in portrait photography. My interest also extends to cultural by-products that exploit sentiment and nostalgia ranging from country songs to greeting cards to officially designated public monuments. |