WESTERN FRONT – Talk by Nina Davies

Nina Davies stands in theatrical space. She looks directly at the camera with her hair down and hands placed behind her back. She wears black tracksuit pants and a bright lime coloured sports top.

Join us for a talk by our current artist-in-residence Nina Davies to learn more about their practice.

About the Artist

Nina Davies is a Canadian-British artist who considers the present moment by observing dance in popular culture and how it is disseminated, circulated, made, and consumed. Working primarily with video, performance, writing, and installation, her work considers current dance phenomena in relation to the wider socio-technical environments from which it emerges. This includes research into the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms, and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Oscillating between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices.

Acknowledgements

Presented in partnership with the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada.

Portrait of Nina Davies. Photo by Rachel Topham Photography.

Portrait of Nina Davies. Photo by Rachel Topham Photography.

Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.