• about
  • works
    • Manhattan Project Revisited
    • First Contact
    • TV Tracker
    • Self-typing Machines
    • e-xchange
    • The Violin Lesson
    • Coincide(nce)
    • The Diana Piano
    • Enseigner le sens du savoir
    • Laura 1898-1990
    • Invisible sculpture #1
    • The Fun of It
    • Push/Pull
    • Fuse
    • Sonar
    • HĂ´pital Bellechasse
    • Sewing (d'après une oeuvre de gabrielle Roy)
    • Painted Theories of Modern Art
    • Slip Covered Room
    • Water Balloon: Composition for a Prairie Landscape
  • curatorial
    • USED/Goods
    • LEVINAS: ETHICS OF ENCOUNTER
    • Composite Group Show
    • Science Fair
  • publications
  • archives
    • Platform
    • One City Block
    • City Door/Forest Door
    • Still Life/Nature morte for Kent
    • Prairie Tea Cup
    • Objectives
    • Touch Would
    • 48 Lost Days
  • contact
  • lorraine.oades@concordia.ca
  • links

Originally from Winnipeg Manitoba, Lorraine Oades has been working as an artist in Montreal, Quebec since the late 1980s. Many of her sculpture/installations incorporate time-based media in order to invite viewers to engage physically with the work and explore their creative potential. For Oades, art making is a performance-based activity where the process of time is implicit in the final artwork.

In addition to her art practice Oades has initiated a number of community-based collaborative projects that emphasize alternative forms of public intervention aimed at addressing timely social concerns from a local perspective. She has co-founded several artist groups, including Cut Rate Collective, who published USED/Goods, a bilingual book based on the project of the same name that took place at the Montreal Salvation Army Thrift Store. The book and exhibition consider the social significance of artists’ use of everyday objects in real world environments where audiences have little or no knowledge of contemporary art. Oades’s work has been included in exhibitions across Canada and internationally. She teaches in the Intermedia: Video, Performance and Electronic Arts and ARTX programs at Concordia University.


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