Mimi Gellman
Associate Professor
Department of Culture and Community
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Canada
Biography
Mimi’s interdisciplinary work explores her interests in phenomenology and technologies of intuition through an embodied practice of walking and mapping and through works and installations that point to the existence of the animacy and agency of objects. The cross-cultural dialogue exemplified in her work suggests a pre-existing connection to the other-than-human worlds. It is her cosmological orientation, in other words, her Ojibwe/Métis worldview and the language that expresses it that predisposes her to be open to the reality of the spirit and life of objects and their ability to communicate across diverse thresholds. She is currently completing her research praxis PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University on the metaphysics of Indigenous mapping. She continues to exhibit internationally with recent exhibitions in France, Germany and Tokyo and was included in the seminal exhibition, "On line" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2011.
Research Interest
Culture and Community
