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    Selected Projects (in chronological order)
     
     
     
    2023
   
  The Desert Turned to Glass

. Solo Exhibition at Contemporary Calgary (including the film The Eye of Silence)

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    2021
     
   
  No6092 (Law of the Good Neighbour)

. Commission by the KW Berlin for Open Secret series

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  La llave de cristal (viajeros espejo)

. Commission by Tae Foundation, Yucatan

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  The Last Museum / The Glass Key

. Commission by the KW Berlin

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    2019
     
   
  The Drowned World

. Project for the Inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art

. . Biennial Site . . . Publication

     
   
  Cargo Coral

. Underwater Film shot for IMAX Screen (shown at Toronto Biennial 2019)

     
    2017
     
   
  Until O Becomes Just a Dot.

. Commission by the Musée des arts contemporaine de Montréal

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    2016
     
   
  No6092

. Sobey Award Exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada

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    2015
     
   
  Monument as Ruin

. Exhibition at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University

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  For the Record

. Custome vinyl record of Marshall McLuhan and Glenn Gould Correspondence.

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  ANBARIUM:
A transplanetary comperative history of metallergical exchange

. Rare Earth work commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

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    2014
     
   
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  COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

. curatorial project with exhibition, lectures, screenings, book and workshop.

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  CAMOUFLAGE OF LARGE INSTALLATIONS

. artist multiple: reprint of WW2 manual, essay by Baudelaire and colour fields by Stankievech.

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    2013
   
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  THE SONIFEROUS ÆTHER OF THE LAND BEYOND THE LAND BEYOND

. 35mm Film Installation

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    2012
   
HOMELAND
  HOMELAND SECURITY

. large scale fieldwork in Marfa, Texas (with publication)

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  DRONE STRIKE

. performance at dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany

. . The "Reading Circle" series for the 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts curatorial concept.

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  OVERxOUT

. mobile eavesdropping unit as Public Art commission by Washington D.C. Government.

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    2011
   
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  LOVELAND

. installation with HD Video, Fluorescing Emeralds, and 1901 scifi novel The Purple Cloud.

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  NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

. photograph published by NASA as their Astronomy Picture of the Day on Feb 8, 2011.

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    2010
   
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  Magnetic Norths

. curated exhibition presenting 400 years of work by over 30 artists on the topic of the Arctic.

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  Ghost Rockets World Tour

. Rocket launch spectacles at Cape Canaveral, Berlin, Peenemünde, NYC, LA, Arctic Ocean + more.

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  OVER THE WIRE

. Pedagogical Project with Lawrence Weiner, Gay Hill, Ian Baxter&, Shary Boyle and Tim Hecker, Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) and others.

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    2009
     
   
 

Gravity's Rainbow

 

.Light and Sound Installation

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Sound + Space: Headphones | Architecture | Transmission

. Curated series of audio work for the Architectural Association Radio

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The DEW Project

. Site-Specific Radio Installation in the Yukon Wilderness.

. . click on the DEW logo to launch the project.

   
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LAST TRAIN:
A Wake for St. Martin Kippenberger's Dawson City METRO-Net

. Party for the death of an art work.

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    2008
     
   
dubai
 

How I Learned to Stop Loving and Worry About Dubai

. Multimedia Study on the Urban Design of Dubai, UAE

. . Inflexions Journal, Fall 2008.

 

     
   
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Straightening the Thames River

. Paper Object

. . Part of a suite of documents published in the AA Publication: London Z-Y.

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Untitled (March 24th)

. Postcard, edition of 1000, with downloadable music.

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Get Out of My Head. Get Out of My Mind

. Sound Installation

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Constellations

. Sound Installation

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Horror Vacui

. Solo Exhibition @ Galerie Donald Browne

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    2007
   
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Aletheia's Veil

. Solo Exhibition @ Dazibao

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Dust (for spiral staircase)

. sound performance at the Banff New Media Institute

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Good Vibrations

. sound installation at The Cloche Gallery

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Huxley, Alberta

. "Compression" group show at Art Mûr

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Timbral

. exhibition

. . Parisian Laundry

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    2006
   
 

Möbius Fields (Montreal)

. Stereo Audio for Headphones

. . Leonardo Music Journal (MIT press): «Noises Off: Sound Beyond Music»

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Piano

. sculpture

. . Jason Downie Gallery, Montreal, Nov 2006.

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Solo Nota (San Servolo)

. site-specific sound installation

. . Fatti e Finzioni, Venice , Italy. Oct 7 - Nov 19, 2006.

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Island of Discarded Plastic (Leonia)

. site-specific sculpture

. . Fatti e Finzioni, Venice , Italy. Oct 7 - Nov 19, 2006.

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Constellations : [ Art, Architecture, Acoustics ]

. performative writing

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Möbius Serum Albumin

. kinetic sculpture

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Möbius 19566591.71717^2

. paper sculpture with headphone audio

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Kleinnian Feedback

architectural acoustic mapping

. "Lucien L'Allier plays Alvin Lucier " Jan 08, 2006

. Black Box, Hexagram Jan 26 + 27, 2006

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    2005
     
   
Zeno
 

Zeno Phantasies       

16mm film installation

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[16 B/W film print, custom computer controlled projector, custom software and antique screen]

. "Ignition" Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal. Dec 2005-Jan 2006

   
 

untitled (reading Beckett)

Sound Installation with Wall Drawing

text written by Samuel Beckett; read by Christof Migone + Charles Stankievech

. "The Infinite Within The Silence Without" Bourget Gallery, Nov 2005

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X for La Monte Young

. Sound Installation

[Open Chamber Headphones (Grado SR80), granular synthesis software, computer]

. "The Infinite Within The Silence Without" Bourget Gallery, Nov 2005.

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Tesseract

art historical research and theoretical sound installation

(initially workshopped with Aaron Flint Jamison)

. artist talk at the Planetary Collegium, UK.

   
 

Breathe

sound sculpture

[Driver, amplifier + custom software]

. "The Promise of Structure" FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal. Aug-Oct2005

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Whispers [for WB]

site-specific sound installation

[12 channels, custom speaker system with custom software, computer + sound interface)

. "Décalage" Parisian Laundry, April 2005.

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    2004
   
 

The Crying Room

user software

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Particle Fields

openGL 3D particle animation with quadraphonic stereo field rotation

   
 

Operatics

performance

concept, set design and audio processing: Charles Stankievech

opera singer: Anna Barowska

. "Centre for Disease Control" @ Video In for the Symposium: Infest: International Artist Run Culture. Feb 2004

   
 

Whispers from the Shadows

solo exhibition

[Film loops, film projectors, custom electronics, sound recordings + canvases with transclucent screens]

. Department of Safety Art Gallery, WA. Apr 2004.

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Post(it)Smithson

site-specific installation/intervention

[GPS, Post-It notes, various coordinates]

.Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Grant Arnold (in conjunction with the Robert Smithons exhibtion "Fragment of a Greater Fragmentation" Dec-Jan 2004).

     
     
     
    2003
   
 

Incorporating Ideological Phantasies

solo exhibition with sound installation, photography, video and sculpture.

. Department of Safety Art Gallery, WA Apr 2003.

   
 

Answering Machine

a play

. written by Anthony Toganazinni; directed by Charles Stankievech

. Vancouver Fringe Festival, Sept 2003.           

 Printed Program Details          Archived Website

   
 

Bud Osborn: Poetry and Politics

a documentary by Charles Stankievech

. screened DTES Vancouver Film Festival, Sept 2003.

     
     
     
    2002
   
 

Requiem: to my (m)others

performance and installation

(in collaboration with Aaron Flint Jamison)

. multiple performances in Vancouver, Canada.

     
     
     
    2001
   
 

Axolotl

a film directed by Charles Stankievech

based on a story by Julio Cortazar

     
     
     
    2000
   
 

InBetweenHere&There

a play

written and directed by Charles Stankievech

. TWU stage, Vancouver.

 
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