Annie Martin is a

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artist who works with installation, audio, video and textiles. Her work has been exhibited throughout Canada and internationally. Martin lives in

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where she teaches at the

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. She previously lived and worked in Montreal.

Works

Martin's creative practice includes installation, audio and video art, textiles, drawing and performative practice. Her work privileges the senses, experimentation, speculation and the body using ephemeral materials and audio with elements of drawing, writing, listening and walking. She collaborated with Nikki Forrest and

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on a video collaboration titled "My Heart" in 2001. Since 2004 she has conducted listening walks as a form of research and a contemplative performance practice. In 2008, Martin completed a residency at OBORO, where she produced two new audio CD projects titled ''music for insomniacs'' and ''symphonie interne''. Her exhibition ''(im) permeable'' (2008) featured a group of ladies' trench coats hanging spaciously on opposing walls of the Gallery. Each coat was wired to a separate live audio feed coming from elsewhere in the mall. Listeners needed to physically lean into each coat to hear the sound. Art writer Amy Fung reported that "the perception experienced is different from physically absorbing a crowd in the moment; the experience is more of a reception, akin to eavesdropping into a wholly other place and time." In 2009, Martin's work was featured in "Into the Streets," a series presented by the

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, which included a number of city-based installations and performances. Martin presented guided ''Listening Walks'' of urban sounds alongside eight other Canadian artists (Kerri Reid,

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, Kelly Andres, Ingrid Bachmann, James Graham, Lyla Rye, Allison Hrabluik, and Doug Scholes),

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions: * ''flotilla,'' CASA, (2015) * ''Dessins temporels,'' Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, ON, (2014) * ''Everything that rises'' and ''temporal drawings,'' Pith Gallery, (2013) * ''(im) permeable'', New Gallery,

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, Calgary, AB, (2008) * ''Collecting Everyday,''

Art Gallery, co-curated with Lorne Beug and Jennifer Stillwell. (2007) * ''Nocturne: silent video'',

, co-curated with Michael Campbell, (2006) * ''Exhilaration and Dysphoria: 3 Canadian Video Artists in Berlin'', Optica at ArtForum Berlin, (2003) * ''Geoffrey Hendricks: A Retrospective of Performance Photographs,'' Galerie Articule, Montreal, QC, (1997) * ''Craft by Artists,'' Galerie Articule, Montreal, QC, (1995) * ''Queer Art Video Series''
Image et Nation Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Montreal, QC, (1995)

Bibliography

FFWD, Calgary, AB, 2008 * Fung, Amy "(im)permeable by Annie Martin", shotgunreview.ca, 2008 * Black, Anthea "What if we heard everything? Nothing?", FFWD, 2007 * "48 rooms, 48 hours", CD ROM catalogue, 2002 * "Multiplier: Points de vue sur l'art actuel des femmes", Galerie La Centrale, 1998 * "Whisper in my Ear" Exhibition publication + CD ROM catalogue, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. 1997 * "Doors", Exhibition publication, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 1997 * "Résidu", catalogue accompanying Résider, (Galerie La Centrale), Montreal, 1995 * Lamontagne, Valérie, "Résider", C Magazine, (Fall 1995), Toronto ON, 1995 * Lamontagne, Valérie, "Brand New Visions", Hour Magazine, Montreal, QC, 1994 * Lamontagne, Valérie, "Annie Martin and Freda Guttman", Parachute 76

References

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