Episode 4.2 (May 2024). In this episode of The No Normal we are delighted to feature one of the key figures in the experimental arts scene here in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan/ Edmonton, Kelly Ruth. Since moving here from Winnipeg in 2017, Kelly Ruth has given dozens of live performances, mainly featuring amplified weaving looms, collaborated with many local and visiting artists, created gallery installations, and worked within, or alongside, some of the key arts organizations here. Among her many activities, Kelly Ruth has for several years been developing a performance practice that takes place in the virtual world, on Second Life. Through her avatar, Poppy Morris, she has cultivated a unique approach to artistic world-building while developing an entirely new, international audience. To top it off, Kelly Ruth has developed a really amazing practice that hybridizes simultaneous in-person and virtual performances.
Program:
02:27 Simulacra – Real Virtuality (excerpt)
Kelly Ruth, from the album Simulacra, Released 2021
Label: Pseudo Laboratories
13:21 Simulacra – Illusory Perceptions (excerpt)
21:00 Simulacra – Sensorial Waters (excerpt)
34:25 Pixelated Oscillations (excerpt 1)
Kelly Ruth and Allison Balcetis
Hybrid Live/ Virtual Performance, Harcourt House, Edmonton
April 21, 2023
44:36 Hybrid Live/ Virtual Performance (excerpt 1)
New Adventures in Sound Art
South River, Ontario
December 9, 2023
54:20 Hybrid Live/ Virtual Performance (excerpt 2)
New Adventures in Sound Art
62:09 Pixelated Oscillations (excerpt 2)
Kelly Ruth and Allison Balcetis
Hybrid Live/ Virtual Performance, Harcourt House, Edmonton
April 21, 2023
Artist Bio:
Kelly Ruth is a new media artist currently living in Treaty 6, Edmonton, Canada. She has been activating her textiles and tools through using electronics, sound, and integrating microcontrollers into the foundations of her woven cloth. In performance she uses contact microphones and effects pedals on her weaving loom and other fibre related tools. She has created several bodies of work using weaving, felting and dyeing with plants, recognizing these as early technologies, and a relationship that humans have had with the land. Most recently she has been researching and creating art in a virtual world.
For More Information
- Kelly Ruth: www.kellyruth.ca/, www.youtube.com/@kellyruth5063
- Pseudo Laboratories: pseudolaboratories.bandcamp.com/
- Harcourt House Artist Run Centre: harcourthouse.ab.ca/
- New Adventures in Sound Art: naisa.ca/
- Moment Discovery: momentdiscovery.ca/
