Antoine Racine

Antoine Racine engages with ecological interconnectedness through horizontal and non-anthropocentric assemblages. Their practice entwines beings of radically different modes of existence, such as technological artifacts, plants, digital images, insects, humans, minerals, computer codes, words and sounds. It values experimentation over execution, hacking over designing. Usually involving found materials and collected accidents, Antoine’s work takes the shape of unstable arrangements drawing unlikely connexions across time and space. Renewed attempts to open their processes to external forces and to subvert a desire for control. Recently, they’ve been especially interested in feedback loops, as well as in working with and from technical failures, outside of the binary opposition between function/dysfunction.

Based in Montreal, Antoine Racine is an interdisciplinary artist working across the lines of installation, video, experimental music, performance and electronic arts. Their art has been shown nationally and internationally in film festivals, art galleries, apartments, and DIY events. It has been supported by the CALQ, the Peter N. Thomson Foundation and Vidéographe.