Chris Dufour – CUSTOM RESIDENCY
During my time at L’imprimerie I’ll be focusing on telling stories of learning to hunt and fish through experimental printing practices incorporating inks, animal parchment paper, and photography. Material is the focus of my project through researching components of print, leather tanning, and ink making to embed parts of the ecologies and the processes into the work. Throughout the residency, I’ll be exploring techniques in photogravure and copper plate etching, bone based printing inks, and textiles to begin developing a visual narrative of ‘the hunt’. As I’ve researched practices of fishing and hunting for the last three years, I wondered how these practices are learned and talked about across intergenerational and settler relationships to the land. I find myself concerned about the culture of domination, control, and entitlement that is present in hunting and I turn towards the lineages of queer kinship with the more-than-human world as a potential salve for approaching these practices.
Photo credit: Kathya Konioukhova
Biography
Chris Dufour is an interdisciplinary artist working across several territories on turtle island, including Kanien’kehá:ka and Mi’gma’gi. Chris uses mediums of plants, gardening, textiles, quilting, installation, darkroom manipulation, leather tanning, and sculpture in their work. Chris values projects which seek to utilize material practices as a facilitator, to process connections and relationships to ecologies, modalities of care, alternative futures, and ruminations about world building.
Of Irish and Quebecois heritage, Chris grew up outside of Kjipuktuk (so called Halifax, Nova Scotia) and has spent the last 8 years working and living across many territories on Turtle Island. After attending the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Chris took on a practice of grassroots learning that brought them to social practice, permaculture, soil ecology, and accessible community-based education. In recent years, they’ve been working with lichen mobile programming space, Oxygen Arts Centre, and L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes producing new work and conducting material research.
Œuvres photographiques de Chris Dufour
Crédit photo: Katya Konioukhova
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