Barbara Meneley
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Barbara Meneley | |
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| Known for | visual artist |
| Notable work | Unsettling the Last Best West: Restorying Settler Imaginaries |
| Movement | new media art |
| Website | www |
Barbara Meneley is a contemporary Canadian visual artist and educator based in Regina, Saskatchewan.[1] She is known for her new media art, which brings together elements of media, installation art and performance art in solo and curated group exhibitions throughout Canada.[2][3][4]
Meneley received a BA in Communications (1994 Simon Fraser University), Visual Arts Major (1995–1999 Emily Carr University), MFA Visual Arts in Intermedia (2009 University of Regina), and PhD in Cultural Studies (2011–2015 Queen's University).[2][5]
Meneley is an instructor at The University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada in Regina, Saskatchewan.[6][7]
Methodology
According to Dr. Risa Horowitz, a cohort of Canadian university-based artist-researchers, such as Barbara Meneley, employ practice-based research methodologies in which the "functions of research, creation and dissemination are complexly iterative, intertwined and reflexive", more prominently than in traditional art practice.[1] Meneley's new media art brings together elements of media, installation art, performance art, as well as cultural mapping practices such as engagement in dialogic practice with observers, historical analysis and theoretical inquiry.[2][3] For example, during a work's development, Meneley follows a deliberate routine of being open to public input and commentary, so that the background research and the artwork is in part a product of engaged dialog.[8] This reflects an interest in educating through creative expression, in acknowledgment of an ideology that all people have within themselves creative capacities, which can be accessed by locating their personal means of expression.[1][2] According to Reyes, individual artist-researcher projects come together in socially engaged art practices which incorporate "elements including workshops, exhibitions, residencies, pedagogy, curatorial practice and collaboration."[9]
Meneley has stated that because her process is often determined through experimental responses to a particular discourse[10] "[she has] to be clear on what [she says] textually, and doing that contributes to clarity in [her] material work. Again, as at every stage, process of problem solving are integral, incorporating inquiry and resolving the aesthetic, conceptual, material, and practical elements."[11]