Bio

Working with animation, video, painting, drawing, installation and intervention, Jess MacCormack's interdisciplinary practice examines the complex position of culture within neoliberal capitalism and critiques modes of social control, while exploring the potential for art to function as a site of resistance. They are specifically interested in how modes of violence are perpetuated collectively through popular narratives, concepts of justice and denial of accountability. MacCormack's practice has included an ongoing commitment to working with women and youth who are in conflict with the law, through the creation of art projects in prisons as well as at numerous centres that support marginalized people.

Works

Where We Were Not; Feeling Reserved, Alexus' Story

  • 2011
  • Jess MacCormack, Alexus Young

An experimental animated documentary about criminalization in Canada. Having worked for the past five years on art projects with marginalized and criminalized women. I wanted to find ways to build on these relationships, while offering an opportunity for sharing their often poignant stories and insights.

Where We Were Not; Feeling Reserved, Alexus' Story

Love Is A Hunter

  • 2010
  • Jess MacCormack

This animation uses watercolor paintings of child-morphed creatures, poppies and dismembered legs, based on collaged photos from my animation ‘Nothing ever happened’, to produce a commentary on loss.

Love Is A Hunter