WHITNEY BRENNAN
Digital Art, Performance Art, Sound Art, Dance
Exhibition photograph from “Take a Deep Breath,” Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, 2019.
Photo credit: Andre Costa Photography
City: Vancouver, British Columbia
Website: http://soundcloud.com/whitney-brennan
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/whitbrennan
Artist Statement: My practice uses sound to consider the natural environment and our relationship to it through field recordings, augmented natural sounds, and narrative. My interest in how we interpret our surroundings through sound also considers how we explore our anxieties and coping strategies through the use or removal of sound. Some major themes in my work are: the environment/climate change; mental health and misophonia; performance art and poetry.
Biography: Born on unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations territory (Vancouver, BC), Whitney Brennan received her BA and MA in Art History from the University of British Columbia. She is the co-director of arts non-profit Arts Assembly and curator of their ongoing audio art project, "the commute." Her sound work was recently included in the digital iteration of Shooting Gallery Performance Series and exhibited at YACTAC and Dynamo Arts Association. Upcoming exhibitions include Two Rivers Gallery (Prince George, BC). Recent radio broadcasts include framework radio (UK), and CiTR.fm. Whitney also works as a freelance curator, researcher and arts writer. Recent publications include SAD Magazine, C Magazine, and Decoy Magazine.