Steven Brekelmans
b. 1975, Vancouver, Canada
steven.brekelmans at stevenbrekelmans.com
Education
1998 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Diploma in Fine Art (Intermedia)
Professional Experience
2005 - 2009, Projectile Publishing Society, Board of Directors;
President 2006 - 2009
2000 - 2007, Western Front Society, Board of Directors;
President 2003 - 2007
1996 - present, System Administrator / Co-curator, Rubyarts.org
1998 Sound designer/collaborator on experimental short film Simulacra, (with Zoran Dragelj)
1993 - 2001, member of Foer, a two-person electro-acoustic music/noise group (with Kevin Krebs)
Selected Exhibitions, Screenings, Performances & Lectures
2009 Harlow Campus England, Memorial University, Guest lecture, Kit Bashing
2008 Emily Carr University of Art and Design, The Subject of Education (group)
2008 Western Front, Kits for an Encounter (group)
2007 Western Bridge (Seattle, WA), Kit Bashing (group)
2006 Bodgers' and Kludgers' Co-operative Art Parlour, Kit Bashing (solo)
2006 The Tank (New York, NY), New York Experimental, screening of Simulacra
2005 Dam, Stühltrager (Brooklyn, NY), Shoot, screening of Simulacra
2002 Eugene Choo, Lo-Fly (solo)
2001 Blinding Light!! Cinema, Foer performance, part of MULTIPLEX GRAND VERSION 8.0
2000 Starfish Room, Foer performance, collaboration with Jonathan Middleton
2000 Western Front, Sound Separation (group)*
1999 Artspeak Gallery, Foer performance at Trajectory Magazine event
1999 Western Front Foer performance with Please Pay Here Collective
1998 Moon Base Gallery, Zap! (group)
1998 Sugar Refinery, Foer performance (November)
1998 Sugar Refinery, Foer performance (March)
1997 Shamrock Laundromat, Foer performance at Sit and Spin performance art event
1995 Flat Gallery, Space Art (group)*
(* denotes catalogue)
Published Artist Projects
2007 (BOOING), collaboration with Fiona Curtis (self-published)
2007 Helvetica Neue R, Constructs Volume 9, #2, collaboration with Derek Barnett, (Yale University School of Architecture)
2006 The smallest things found in nature (life-size), collaboration with Fiona Curtis (self-published)
2005 Golden Doodles, collaboration with Fiona Curtis (self-published)
2004 Coat Hanger, Cahier D'Activité Magazine #3, p.21 (Vancouver: Eugene Choo)
2003 How to Draw Animals, collaboration with Fiona Curtis (self-published)
2003 The Portable Stool, Cahier D'Activité Magazine #2, p.22 (Vancouver: Eugene Choo)
2003 How to Build a Door-stop, Cahier D'Activité Magazine #1, p.24 (Vancouver: Eugene Choo)
1999 Images from the Home Front, project for Rubyarts.org
1998 Images from the Front Line, project for Rubyarts.org
Bibliography
A Sea of Contingencies: Vancouver's Domestic Interventions, Jesse Birch, C Magazine 103, Autumn 2009 (photo)
Model behavior - putting things together wrong at Western Bridge, review by Jen Graves, The Stranger,
April 11, 2007 (photo)
Kit-bashing hobbyists turn walls into hothouses, tin cans into sound forests, review by Regina Hackett,
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 8, 2007
Hobby as art - a model for a new esthetic, review by Clint Burnham, Vancouver Sun,
September 14, 2006, p.D14 (photo)
Sound Separation, Mix Magazine 25.3 (winter 1999/2000), p.18 (photo)
Collections
Bill & Ruth True, United States
Douglas Coupland, Canada
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