Guest Lecture by Ottawa based artist, Kenneth Emig
October 8 2020 (Thursday) 2.45-3.55 pm
Convex Red by Kenneth Emig, 2013.
Materials: wood, acrylic, mirror, paint, light. Dimensions: 198 × 198 × 20 cm.
Collection of the City of Ottawa, Arts Court
October 8 2020 @ 1.05-2.30 ASAU Carleton University
“The Space Between – Further Reflections on the Intersecting Practice of Visual Art and Dance.”
In 2003, I received an Inter-Arts Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to explore the intersections between my art and dance practices. Since that time, my personal experience, along with my dance and visual art have changed, developed, and refined. The practices have become very intertwined.
There are choices I make compositionally as a sculptor and there are habitual movements, sequences, and influences that I use in dance performance. Both clearly identify the result as mine. The processes and habits of one discipline are used in other disciplines. They influence each other.
My practice includes sculpture, installation, public art, dance performance and technology influenced by acoustics, sound and technology. My art practice runs parallel to years of experience in acoustic design, high technology and manufacturing. I also operate my own consulting business, Emig Acoustics that is an industry partner of Ryerson University’s RE/Lab.
This talk is a personal reflection on those transdisciplinary experiences.
Kenneth Emig, Ottawa October 5, 2020
Kenneth Emig is an Ottawa based transdisciplinary artist who explores the confluence of sound, light, space, technology and movement. His best-known artworks include architectural light boxes that produce magical slices of infinity and public art that creates opportunities for experience in both natural and constructed environments. Emig has exhibited in Canada and abroad, including the Moscow Biennale and has won three public art commissions in Ottawa. He was also commissioned by the Canada Dance Festival to create a series of dance performances in an installation at the National Arts Centre.
Emig’s art practice runs parallel to years of experience in acoustic design, high technology and manufacturing. Emig also operates his own consulting business, Emig Acoustics that is an industry partner of Ryerson University’s RE/Lab.