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Open Studio: Christina Trutiak
December 30, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Drop by Macaulay House to see what current artist in resident Chrsitina Trutiak has been working on.
Survival and destruction, resilience and resistance are significant themes within Trutiak’s practice. Trutiak
performs grotesque yet fragile interpretations of the uncanny. She creates psycho-spatial environments
consisting of slightly skewed hyper realistic images. Body parts, sounds, landscapes and objects feed her
unusual assortment of counter-repressive gestures that revolve around permutations of psychic and social
repressions.
As a Canadian-Ukrainian, the development of Trutiak’s current work is impacted by the events and
circumstances of the ongoing unjust Russian invasion of Ukraine. She considers the high level of anxiety and
fear caused by the current day threats of nuclear war today. Furthermore, her work proposes an awareness of
how to deal with nuclear sublime; how to surpass our fear of nuclear holocaust and go beyond the power of
nuclear imagination that looks uncanny.
During her residency, Trutiak is sculpting, molding and casting objects, props and special effects to be used in
her upcoming installation, Paranoid Parameters.
Christina Anna Trutiak is a Toronto-based artist with an MFA from the University of Victoria. Trutiak’s practice
teeters between video, sound, performance, installation, and sculpture. She performed, To Carry From Above, at
the Venice International Performance Art Week, 2019, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. Trutiak
is a current Artist-in-Residence at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, YT and a selected
participant for The Power Plant’s RBC Emerging Artist Network, 2022-2023.
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KIAC is proud to partner with Parks Canada’s Klondike National Historic Sites for the Residency Program.
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Artist In Residence Activities & Outreach
Artist in Residence activities include artist talks, studio tours, interactive events, and more.
Founded in 2001, in a partnership with Parks Canada, the KIAC Artist in Residence Program has welcomed over 300 talented artists, musicians and filmmakers to Dawson City from all regions of Canada and around the world. Our alumni include Sobey Art Award nominees, Western Canada Music Award winners, and prize-winning filmmakers from film festivals across the globe.
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Film Events
Film activities include film screenings, film selections, and more.
KIAC is proud to host an exciting roster of film screenings and film-related events throughout the year, such as the 48 Hour Film Challenge and Dawson City International Short Film Festival, numerous workshops, and other opportunities.
Exhibitions
Exhibition activities include gallery viewing hours, exhibition openings, artist talks, calls for submissions, and more.
ODD Gallery
The ODD Gallery, located in the Dënäkär Zho / KIAC building, presents a wide array of outreach programming including artist talks, openings, lectures, screenings, youth programs and other special events. Gallery programming fosters professionalism and appreciation of regional visual arts practice, and provides the community with exposure and access to a diverse range of contemporary visual arts practices and theories in a remote, northern setting.
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Kids & Youth Programs
Kids & youth activities include: music lessons, art classes, dance classes, book readings, toddler classes, after-school programs.
Year-Round Programming
Kids and Youth (toddler to teen) programming ranges from music lessons (vocals, piano) to dance class (ballet, hip hop, and more), to hands-on workshops (pottery, screen-printing, animation and more) and is offered regularly throughout the year. KIAC strives to subsidize Kids & Youth programs as much as possible via grants and funding. Programming ranges from free Drop-Ins to registered weekly programs.
Youth Art Enrichment
Youth Art Enrichment is an annual four-day art program for Yukon youth hosted by the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture in Dawson City. Artistically-inclined youth ages 14 – 18 travel from across the Yukon to take part in intensive workshops led by professional artists. Students choose one of three mediums to study for the duration of the program, learning new skills, techniques, and ways to creatively make artwork for the world to see. The mediums change every year: we have offered printmaking, animation, painting, carving, stained glass, illustration, improv, and much more over the last two decades.
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Performing Arts
Performing arts activities include: concerts, theatre and dance performances, open mics, radio broadcasts, special events, and more.
KIAC presents a year-round professional performing arts series in the beautiful second floor Ballroom that actively engages our community and provides inspiring performance opportunities for international, national, and regional artists in many disciplines. Our diverse programming includes jazz, classical, folk & roots, experimental, dance, theatre, and more.
Workshops
Workshops include: weekly drop-ins, registered programs, weekend workshops, and more.
KIAC presents a year-round schedule of educational opportunities ranging from drop in programs (pottery, screenprinting, seniors painting, concert band), to registered workshops (dance, music, film, visual art, craft, textiles, etc), to professional development opportunities for artists (grant writing, artwork documentation, etc).
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