Elizabeth Price announced as Emily Carr University of Art and Design's Audain Artist-in-Residence

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      As cutting-edge visual art trends tiptoe further towards multimedia and digital pieces, Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s latest choice for the Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Program is right on point.

      Offering some of the world’s leading contemporary artists the chance to live and work in Vancouver for up to three months, the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts has just announced that London-based artist Elizabeth Price will be taking up the mantle for Spring and Summer 2017.

      Price has built her reputation on creating richly layered moving-image pieces, driven by narrative. Combining analogue and digital photography, animation, and motion graphics, the artist juxtaposes collages with scrolling text that is read out by a computerized voice, and set against a musical background.

      Often beginning with research drawn from museum collections, Price features archival footage prominently in her works. Placing these historical artefacts alongside digitally rendered imagery, her pieces challenge conceptions of historical fact and fiction. Price draws on varying references such as architectural sites, social and political histories, and the language of advertising copy, and edits different contexts and mediums to place unexpected images and sounds side-by-side.

      Price’s acceptance of the Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence program is one more accolade on an already impressive résumé. In 2012, the multimedia creator was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize for her solo exhibition HERE at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, U.K, and her piece USER GROUP DISCO (2008, HD video, 15 minutes) was featured in the 2011 British Art Show.

      Since then, Price has exhibited at galleries such as the Bloomberg International and Chisenhale Gallery in London; The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; The New Museum in New York; The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm; and the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal.

      Elizabeth Price discusses one of her pieces, CHOIR

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