Bio

Shawn Olin Jordan is a multidisciplinary artist living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She grew up in Saskatchewan and received a degree from the Alberta College of Art and Design.  Through her short video works, she seeks to contextualize on the enigma of the human experience.

Works

Sacred not sacred: pilgrimage

  • 2014
  • Shawn Olin Jordan

Notions of externalized and internalized journeys, identity and place, and the mundane and the exotic are explored in a series of clips from an imagined nature documentary series. At question is our spiritual and psychological relationship with the land and how we project our unmet needs and desires onto it.

Sacred not sacred: pilgrimage

Gandhi Gurlz

  • 2012
  • Shawn Olin Jordan

Shot in one take, two teen girls interact with a life-size bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in shadow of the under-construction, controversial Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg, Canada.

Gandhi Gurlz

What's going on? Who cares?

  • 2012
  • Shawn Olin Jordan

A sustained shot of reflections of urban street counterpointed with a disembodied voice posing existential question and answer.

What’s going on? Who cares!

Eye Eye Captain! (Eau Claire)

  • 2011
  • Shawn Olin Jordan

Narrated tale of the dynamics between passengers on a ship and extreme weather conditions using archived televised hurricane weather reports. The piece weaves together multiple layers of meaning: shifting perceptions, a mythological journey, and contemporary environmental issues.

Eye Eye Captain! (Eau Claire)