Tasman Richardson
Tasman Richardson has presented his work widely in America, Europe and Asia. His practice is primarily based on video collage using the JAWA method (the manifesto he wrote in 1996), from which he makes immersive installations, including Necropolis at MOCA (Toronto) in 2012, and a/v performances. His most recent works include performances at the X Avant Festival (2018) in Toronto (organized by Bear Witness, A Tribe Called Red), a screening at the Impakt Festival (2017) in Utrecht, and a performance at the IAF Festival (2017) in Tokyo. His works, and the themes they address, are a critical response to the spectacular and emotionally powerful illusion of media culture, which he has dubbed “contemporary necromancy” or “culture of death.” He advocates for video as a living art form and enthusiastically teaches workshops on hijacking, borrowing and sampling media material, and real-time generative “glitch” art.