SFUs Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) | Shadbolt Fellow, Germaine Koh, interviewed by Clint Burnham @SFUFASS | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Germaine Koh is an artist and organizer based on the west coast in traditional Coast Salish territories, and active across Canada and internationally. Her work ranges widely across media and disciplines, thinking about the relationships between systems and patterns. She adapts familiar objects, everyday actions, and common spaces to create situations that consider the connections between people, technology, and natural systems.
On November 15, 2023, writer and academic, Clint Burnham interviewed Koh to discuss her work and her plans as a 2023-2024 Shadbolt Fellow. Find out more: sfu.ca/fass/news/2023/08/2023-24-shadbolt-fellows.html
More about Koh:
Koh is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. She has served as the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence in 2018-20 and as the 2021 Koerner Artist in Residence at the University of British Columbia, where she continues to teach sessionally.
Koh’s research on "Home Made Ways" will focus especially on cross-disciplinary experimentation and play, D.I.Y. tendencies, the potential of non-specialist activities, experiential learning and traditional ways of knowing, and the role of committed amateurs within communities. Her visits to classes and her hands-on work at SFU may connect to several of her ongoing related projects, such as Home Made Home, an initiative to build and advocate for alternative forms of building and housing; League, a participatory project using play as a form of creative practice; and the Hemlock Micro Studio rural artist residency centered on land-based and sustainability practices.
Germaine Koh is an artist and organizer based on the west coast in traditional Coast Salish territories, and active across Canada and internationally. Her work ranges widely across media and disciplines, thinking about the relationships between systems and patterns. She adapts familiar objects, everyday actions, and common spaces to create situations that consider the connections between people, technology, and natural systems.
On November 15, 2023, writer and academic, Clint Burnham interviewed Koh to discuss her work and her plans as a 2023-2024 Shadbolt Fellow. Find out more: sfu.ca/fass/news/2023/08/2023-24-shadbolt-fellows.html
More about Koh:
Koh is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. She has served as the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence in 2018-20 and as the 2021 Koerner Artist in Residence at the University of British Columbia, where she continues to teach sessionally.
Koh’s research on "Home Made Ways" will focus especially on cross-disciplinary experimentation and play, D.I.Y. tendencies, the potential of non-specialist activities, experiential learning and traditional ways of knowing, and the role of committed amateurs within communities. Her visits to classes and her hands-on work at SFU may connect to several of her ongoing related projects, such as Home Made Home, an initiative to build and advocate for alternative forms of building and housing; League, a participatory project using play as a form of creative practice; and the Hemlock Micro Studio rural artist residency centered on land-based and sustainability practices.
