Miriam Simun : Leaking, Seeping, Fusing, Merging

Bodies, bodies, bodies - animal, plant, planetary, social, political and technological bodies too…all these bodies are constantly leaking out into the world, into each other, seeping, wafting, blurring, fusing, merging. In this talk, the artist asks: How do bodies nourish and poison each other, control and evade said control, mutate and co-evolve?

Seating is first-come, first-served and everyone is welcome. 

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Miriam Simun is a multidisciplinary artist using science, somatics, poetry and humour to create art works that explore the collision of ecosystems, new technologies and human power structures, through video, installation, drawing, performance, and communal sensorial experiences. Trained as a sociologist, Simun takes on the role of ‘artist-as-fieldworker,’ conducting first-person research with diverse places and communities: from scientific laboratories to rewilded forests, from freedivers to human pollinators. This in-depth and corporeal research dictates the form of the final works.

Simun’s work has been presented internationally, including Gropius Bau, New Museum and MIT List Center for Visual Art, recognized in publications including the BBC, The New York Times, The New Yorker, CBC, MTV, and Flash Art International, the work has been supported by Creative Capital, New York State Council for the Arts, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Gulbenkian Foundation and Onassis Foundation.

Conversations in Contemporary Art is a free event series sponsored by Concordia University's Studio Arts MFA Program. The series provides a unique opportunity to hear artists, designers, critics, writers, educators, and curators share their practice(s) and perspectives. 

This series is made possible through the generous support of Lillian and Billy Mauer.