Jessica MacCormack

Jessica MacCormack's art practice combines various elements of interactivity, performance, intervention, installation and video. Her projects aim to disrupt concepts of normalcy and function as catalysts for dialogue while also being attentive to a social critique of institutional structures that propagate systematized oppression, with a self-reflexive criticality, so as not to reproduce these same power structures. Collectivity and community have also largely informed her practice, taking an active part in artist-run center culture, performance collectives and collaborations. This has also included an ongoing commitment to working with women and youth who are dealing with issues of criminalization through the creation of art projects in prisons as well as at Crossing Communities Art Project in Winnipeg. She is keenly interested in the transformative potential of art to confront issues of poverty, homelessness, aboriginal colonization, criminalization, mental-health, trauma and issues relating to queer identities.

 

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In 2008, she completed an MFA through the Public Art and New Artistic Strategies program at the Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany).