Bio

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kandis Friesen is an interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal, since 2000. Working with sound, video, drawing, and installation, her practice looks at language and translation, sites of national and cultural identity, and the functionings of memory and the collective archive.

Friesen holds a BFA from Concordia University, and recently won the Images Festival's Steam Whistle Homebrew Award for the collaborative video Tape #158: Document 2B with Toronto-based artist Nahed Mansour.

Works

Tape #158:Document 2b

  • 2011
  • Kandis Friesen

The result of a collaboration between artists Nahed Mansour and Kandis Friesen, this work is based on the original footage from an unrealized documentary found at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives in Winnipeg Manitoba.

Tape #158:Document 2b

Rachki

  • 2010
  • Kandis Friesen

Rachki is an experimental video short looking at memory, migration, translation, and loss.

Rachki

Trade

  • 2010
  • Kandis Friesen

Trade is an experimental video short exploring concepts of borders and trade, and their relationship to notions of collective history and national identity in the North American colonial context.

Trade