© Dermot Wilson. Photo Lisa Murzin.
b. Dublin, Eire
Artist and curator Dermot Wilson lives in northern Ontario. He works in various media including video, audio, time-based installation, digital imaging and performance to create works that include meditations upon his relationships with the community and the environment. Dermot has performed in galleries, bars, artist-run centres and on various outdoor sites in many communities across Canada, South America, Asia, USA and Europe. His noise/spoken word performances challenge institutional conventions and promotes dialogues about ownership and environmental abuses.
Recent installations include: Escarpment Erasure Mega-horn (Escarpment Corridor Alliance); Iterations/Emanations (KINO Gallery and Wroclaw University Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland); and Random Acts of Joy (TOTE Gallery, Campinas, Brazil). Hyperboreal is his ambient sound/spoken word performance collective. He has performed spoken word rants in urban sites across Canada since 1996 and is currently performing site-specific sound art works in clearcut or endangered forest sites.
