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Swoon, installation (projected animation, framed woodcut, ripped duvet with its feathers), Gallery 1C03, 2010, 13 min animation loop projection (excerpt 16 sec)
Inspired by a woodcut from the gallery's collection, this project explores issues of myth, art history, education, and sexual violence. Created with the help of Arthur Adamson, Alexia Dyer, Dinah Thorpe, and Milena Placentile
Images from of my parents wedding, reveal another time when they are so young and innocent. In this video I attempt to protect them from their very difficult future.
Dear Mom and Dad, video/animation, 2009, 1 min, 30 sec (excerpt 39 sec), commissioned by Toronto Animated Image Society and Gallery 44
Travels With My Brother, live action/animated short documentary by Christine Alexiou and June Chua. Evan created the animation
Explores the unique perceptions of Vas, an autistic man, and the complex relationship with his sister, Christine, through a series of conversations and clashes about love, art, family, existence and destiny.
Eddy Explains That It's Not You, an interactive installation consisting of 3D animation and craft materials, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.
animation is 6 min (excerpt is 44 sec).
animation is 6 min (excerpt is 44 sec).
Participants join an animated satyr in making crafts as he reveals his difficulties with male sexuality, aggression, and violence.
Visitors met god, his secretary Sheila (Lisa Lahtinen) and his intern Brad (Ned Petrie) to atone for their sins before Yom Kippur in the basement of InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre. Presented by the Koffler Gallery in partnership with InterAccess.
High Holiday Office Hours With The Almighty Creator of the Universe, an all night (12 hour) performance for Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2008 (excerpt 1 min)
images from Off The Wall, 2008 Residency,
Jewish Museum, NY
Jewish Museum, NY
She-asani Kirtzono, video, 2008, 5 min (excerpt 1 min)
This video references the division of men and women in traditional Jewish prayer and the alienation I feel due to misogyny in the Jewish religion. It was commissioned for the Off the Wall: Artists at Work, 2008 residency at the Jewish Museum, NY.
A 3D computer animation exploring issues of xenophobia, isolation, and survival. The story revolves around the friendship that develops between a neurotic, clairvoyant satyr and a bitter, mermaid welder.
animation test images from Its Not You Its Me, currently in production
I Teach Young Men How to Make Art,video, 2008,
1.5 min (excerpt 30 sec)
Cold Heart,video, 2007
1 min (excerpt 13 sec)
A student’s assignment causes me to consider the misogyny in art and what my responsibility is as a male teacher and artist.
Can one make peace with a difficult memory before it melts away? A collaboration with June Chua.
While a telephone message plays, a strange intimacy is revealed in the flashing backgrounds of images from online dating profiles.
Artist Seeks..., video/animation, 2006, 1 min, 30 sec (excerpt 18 sec)
Ice9, video/animation, 2007, 2 min (excerpt 18 sec)
A split screen reveals other dichotomies to examine a sense of destruction, futility, and faint hope.
In Search of Vashti, a site-specific audio installation at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, 45 min loop (audio excerpt is 3 min, 41 sec) Toronto, 2006
The project consists of a steel bench, an audio player, and headphones. The audio loop plays continuously (24 hours per day). The sound creates an environment that explores ancient Judaic, Persian, and Babylonian feminist history and the contemporary significance of that history.
Self-portrait As A Tortured Artist (With Positive Feedback), video, 2006
1 min, 30 sec
(excerpt 11 sec)
In this humorous video, a recorded telephone message is used to explore the realities of being an artist.
In this humorous video, a recorded telephone message is used to explore the realities of being an artist.
How Was Your Day Dear?, video/animation
2006
2 min, (excerpt 13 sec)
Using an audio waveform to illustrate aggression, I recall a difficult memory. The relationship of the artist and the listening audience echoes this memory and becomes a source of frustration.
It's OK Michael, animation
2005
Graphic Material, animation
2003, 2 min (excerpt 10 sec)
In this animation, the artist goes back in time to help a scared high school bully.
The pages of a brutal manga (comic book) are used to explore the limitations of liberating one’s self from a misogynist context.
Mata Ashita (same tomorrow), video, 2004, 5 min, 30 sec (excerpt 13 sec)
In this strange collaboration with Gilles Gabriel Grassioulet, 2 alien artists explore social boundaries in daily performances.
My Hero, video, 2003, 1 min (excerpt 11 sec)
A short video where a hero is found in the most unexpected place.
I See You Everywhere, digital photographs, 2004
images from a series of photographs taken in Beijing and Seoul. Published in the Center For Contemporary Art Kitakyushu's Research Program 2003-04 book.
Self-portrait as a Teletubby, video, 2003, 3 min (excerpt 9 sec)
In this performance, a shaved patch of chest hair becomes a space for contemplating the art making process.
Sick Day, animation, 2002, 7 min, 30 sec (excerpt 19 sec)
In this wacky stop-motion and computer animation, the protagonist is forced to confront his depression and isolation as the contents of his life are mysteriously pulled from his apartment, during a TV, game show.
The Past is Unpredictable, video, 2002, 1 min (excerpt 12 sec)
Fleeting Intimacy 2, performance/installation,
2001, 2 days (excerpt 12 sec)
A collaborative drawing, performance, and video project with Rebecca Vaughan
At the Art Performance Technology conference in Pittsburgh, the video was edited on site by Rebecca Vaughan as Evan Tapper drew the caricatures and interacted with the public in a shopping mall.
Tumor, animation, 2001, 3 min (excerpt 13 sec)
This strange, 2D computer animation uses dark humour to examine the intricacy of displaced fear and personal loss.
Fleeting Intimacy, video, 2001, 20 min (excerpt 15 sec)
This video documents a 30-day performance at the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library. Strangers share personal stories while posing for caricatures, revealing a highly constructed sense of time, space and contact.
Do You Share Chemistry?, mixed media collage, 16" x 20"
Created for Ace Art's PaperWait publication. This began with a quiz page from Complete Woman magazine. The page is covered with text and drawings to appear as though it was found in the waiting room of a doctor's office. This work expresses the stress and powerlessness of waiting for AIDS test results.
Untitled (Self-portrait in Blue), video/8 mm film, 2001, 3 min (excerpt 10 sec)
This absurd parody of an art film was shot on 8mm film, hand painted, animated and transferred to video.
Lot, video, 2001, 3 min (excerpt 13 sec)
This video examines a misogyny that is deeply rooted in myth and personal history.
Unicorn Men, mixed media drawings, 3'x2' 1996-99
These images obsessively piece together diverse icons of masculinity in order to examine and deconstruct codes of gender representation within high and popular culture.
Schneidy, We Hardly Knew Ye & Other Tales of Misguided Masculinity, performance, 1997, 45 min,
Cinematheque Theatre, Winnipeg Fringe Festival (excerpt 23 sec)
Cinematheque Theatre, Winnipeg Fringe Festival (excerpt 23 sec)
A multimedia extravaganza with actors, live music, puppets, and video projections. and set to the music of Evita, this project featured Schneider from the TV sitcom, One Day at a Time. Thrown into a sudden identity crisis, Schneidy embarks on a journey to find himself.
Man Made, multimedia installation, 1999, 3000 square feet, Ace Art, Winnipeg
This project involved sculpture, robotics, 3 video monitors and 6 audio channels. The inspiration for this work was the oyster, a creature that must transform the irritating rock that has invaded its body into a pearl.The artist, functioning in a diseased society, must do the same. Based on the riddle of the sphinx, I created sculptures that represented myself at three stages. A young boy crawls up from a bed of broken plates. The office worker sits with two feet at a glass desk. The artist stands on one leg with crutches.
Schneidy, We Hardly Knew Ye & Other Tales of Misguided Masculinity, performance, 1997, 45 min,
Cinematheque Theatre, Winnipeg Fringe Festival (excerpt 23 sec)
Cinematheque Theatre, Winnipeg Fringe Festival (excerpt 23 sec)
A multimedia extravaganza with actors, live music, puppets, and video projections. and set to the music of Evita, this project featured Schneider from the TV sitcom, One Day at a Time. Thrown into a sudden identity crisis, Schneidy embarks on a journey to find himself.
Sweet Truth, sculpture with 2 channel video and audio, 1996, 6x7'x4'
This work examines the consumption and internalization of misogynist culture.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane & Other Tales of Post-Pubescent Angst, 1996
35 min,
(excerpt 23 sec),
A bizarre multimedia musical performance about gender and representation. Performed at the Cinematheque Theatre, Winnipeg Fringe Festival This was a collaboration with Liz Schaeffer.
A bizarre multimedia musical performance about gender and representation. Performed at the Cinematheque Theatre, Winnipeg Fringe Festival This was a collaboration with Liz Schaeffer.
