Bio

Alana Bartol is a multidisciplinary artist, working in video, bioart, performance, installation and community art based in Calgary, AB, Canada. Her work reveal and examine the prevailing set of aesthetic and environmental concerns in North American communities, while questioning our assumptions of gender. Bartol holds a B.F.A. [Honours with Distinction] from University of Windsor and a MFA from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI), where she taught the first Performance Art course in the Department of Art and Art History.

Works

Forms of Awarness: Ghillie Suit

  • 2012
  • Alana Bartol

Forms of Awareness is a series that explores indeterminate spaces, figures and roles. Through uncamouflagings in Canadian cities and suburban neighbourhoods, Ghillie appears in various green spaces such as parks, backyards, trails and naturalized areas. While Ghillie inspires a range of reactions including fear, laughter and bewilderment, she often remains unnoticed. This first short film of the series questions the affect of speed on our perceptions of and engagements with the natural environme

Forms of Awarness: Ghillie Suit

reading wild lands (disperal 12-04-039-08 W4)

  • 2018
  • Alana Bartol

Iron filings and magnets become tools of divination as a dowser conducts a site reading of a drill cuttings sample from an abandoned oil well in Alberta, Canada.

reading wild lands (disperal 12-04-039-08 W4)

reading wild lands (dispersal 6-18-048-02 W5)

  • 2018
  • Alana Bartol

Iron filings and magnets become tools of divination as a dowser conducts a site reading of a drill cuttings sample from an abandoned oil well in Alberta, Canada.

reading wild lands