https://chrisheller.info chrisheller.info Wed, 19 May 2021 19:27:00 +0000 https://chrisheller.info en https://chrisheller.info/index Wed, 19 May 2021 18:02:54 +0000 chrisheller.info https://chrisheller.info/index chris heller video / performance / drawing / writing / cv https://chrisheller.info/cv Wed, 19 May 2021 18:02:54 +0000 chrisheller.info https://chrisheller.info/cv about A graduate of OCAD University’s Integrated Media program, Chris Heller is a video-based performance artist. From his own physical reactions, Heller is interested in the limits and mechanisms of the human body. Through the exploration of mind body connection, his work reveals a meaningful search for understanding and self-reflection. His work has been exhibited in several events and exhibitions in Toronto, Montreal, as well as Turin, Italy. cv Chris Heller Toronto – Born: Virginia, USA ccheller@gmail.com Education Integrated Media BFA, Ontario College of Art and Design University 2014 Exhibitions (Group) 2017April - The Performance Bus: Life Drawing on a Moving Bus, AGYU, Toronto, ON 2015 October - Exaltation and the Fall, OCAD University Student Gallery, Toronto, ON July - Testing Grounds Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON June - Mountain Standard Time Spring Runoff Festival, Toronto, ON May - Rencontre interuniversitaire de performance actuelle (RIPA), Montréal, ON March - TPA Exchange Almost 4 Video Screening, Galleria Alessio Moitre, Turin, Italy February - Festival of the Body, OCAD University, A Home For ____ 627 Bath, Toronto, ON January - Sidewalkscreening.mov, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, ON 2014 November – Torino Performance Art Festival, Turin, Italy September – Parkdale Film Festival, Toronto, ON April - In The Way, Greenbelt Gallery, Toronto, ON April – TEN, Jackman Hall, Toronto, ON 2013 September – Being Ourselves and Others, OCAD University, Toronto, ON Workshops Copycat Academy, The Mobile Academy with Hannah Hurtzig, 2015 Nomadic Workshop with Candice Breitz, 2013 Talks Bitch and Brag Gallery 44, 2014 Other Work Art Technician, Stellar Art Services, 2019 Class Assistant, OCAD University, 2014 Teacher's Assistant Performance, OCAD University, 2015 Marketing Intern and Dissemination, Trinity Square Video, 2014 Awards Carmen Lamanna Award, OCAD University, 2014 https://chrisheller.info/Effortlessness Wed, 19 May 2021 18:02:55 +0000 chrisheller.info https://chrisheller.info/Effortlessness Effortlessness︎ watch If you lose something make it count If you gain something forget about it I learned something about (on?) post modern-dance technique that i knew nothing about the week prior. that was two weeks ago. i moved in ways my mind was not aware of. i didn’t think i was rolling on the floor, i just rolled. this was during the copycat academy. and with the help of hannah hurtzig, meg stuart and the lovely faculty and participants, i felt accepted doing brand new things. what was good about it was i explored the space of the neither good nor bad and felt loved. by the end of that week, we all had to present something. i developed ideas. ones i wrote down in a notebook with illustrations of what i was thinking. “dance is a result of circumstances”. In effortlessness, the main accomplishment was to shut my brain off, well no, actually, align it with my muscles so fully that it isn’t being used for any - i have no other word to put, so - “thinking”. (not being “inside my own head”). in effortlessness, the metaphor is a house of cards that i unwound and followed the tumbles, the “crashing downs”. its all “improv”. But i vaguely know how to do that in dance so i improv. There are code words: Release technique and Contact improvisation. I ‘wikipediaed’ them later but that was a waste of time. After that week, I tell these words to dancers cause i think they know them better than me, and they understand. i don’t tell these words to “non-dancers” cause i know i don’t know. <img width="1920" height="1083" width_o="1920" height_o="1083" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/424a79d8e357424c42b7ce94387d316b95e207011382ad7f984e476562c044de/Effortlessness3.png" data-mid="108963611" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/424a79d8e357424c42b7ce94387d316b95e207011382ad7f984e476562c044de/Effortlessness3.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1084" width_o="1920" height_o="1084" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f06df145c0befb8873321f511899a3f7a6f3ff5e5c397bc12c808d351e23e4d7/Effortlessness2.png" data-mid="108963635" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f06df145c0befb8873321f511899a3f7a6f3ff5e5c397bc12c808d351e23e4d7/Effortlessness2.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52d017c170eb714f8ca6c0d52390c3db0e90536b363c9bfa5dc2d87322da35e6/Effortlessness1.png" data-mid="108963640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52d017c170eb714f8ca6c0d52390c3db0e90536b363c9bfa5dc2d87322da35e6/Effortlessness1.png" /> https://chrisheller.info/That-and-Exhale-RIPA-Documentation Wed, 19 May 2021 18:02:55 +0000 chrisheller.info https://chrisheller.info/That-and-Exhale-RIPA-Documentation That and Exhale (RIPA Documentation)︎ watch While in front of an audience, a camera is placed on my stomach projecting the camera's viewpoint behind me. After a while, I stand up, place the camera aside and perform anaerobic exercises. After I run out of air to continue the exercises, I return to the floor and place the camera on my stomach. <img width="1200" height="784" width_o="1200" height_o="784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd324e96d46a2ad91cc34450a873538c380b4c67724b638f2659b93c624e5dcd/That-and-Exhale-RIPA-Documentation1.jpeg" data-mid="108964946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd324e96d46a2ad91cc34450a873538c380b4c67724b638f2659b93c624e5dcd/That-and-Exhale-RIPA-Documentation1.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="798" width_o="1200" height_o="798" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5818ead3530aa7e601d90f5cb22fe29b5c450455b3dc0fe3c9b4670b57688aec/That-and-Exhale-RIPA-Documentation2.jpeg" data-mid="108964947" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5818ead3530aa7e601d90f5cb22fe29b5c450455b3dc0fe3c9b4670b57688aec/That-and-Exhale-RIPA-Documentation2.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="820" width_o="1200" height_o="820" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23e8252591a27ad3ae3cdc566c674633b475b34c5bfad38675f601a42329955f/That-and-Exhale-RIPA-Documentation3.jpeg" data-mid="108964948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23e8252591a27ad3ae3cdc566c674633b475b34c5bfad38675f601a42329955f/That-and-Exhale-RIPA-Documentation3.jpeg" /> https://chrisheller.info/Not-That-but-Exhale Wed, 19 May 2021 18:02:56 +0000 chrisheller.info https://chrisheller.info/Not-That-but-Exhale Not That but Exhale︎ watch breakdown of readiness. <img width="769" height="427" width_o="769" height_o="427" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a56f107defdc855f66e50acb96d966b165f84852e05e23e98131cf2b9b726dd2/Not-That-but-Exhale1.png" data-mid="108965193" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/769/i/a56f107defdc855f66e50acb96d966b165f84852e05e23e98131cf2b9b726dd2/Not-That-but-Exhale1.png" /> <img width="760" height="429" width_o="760" height_o="429" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cd84e1cfe719c57cb83630ab186aab4516346add4e46d531387e7ed16504c1a/Not-That-but-Exhale7.png" data-mid="108965483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/764/i/2cd84e1cfe719c57cb83630ab186aab4516346add4e46d531387e7ed16504c1a/Not-That-but-Exhale7.png" /> https://chrisheller.info/18-18-But-like-if-i-only-spent-my-money-on-food Wed, 19 May 2021 18:50:14 +0000 chrisheller.info https://chrisheller.info/18-18-But-like-if-i-only-spent-my-money-on-food $18.18 (But like if i only spent my money on food) ︎ watch Within an hour and with 25 dollars in my pocket, I purchased one food item at a time from 7-11 and ate it in front of the camera in the parking lot. <img width="2560" height="1440" width_o="2560" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aeb3c4206c2b1bdc453e59da66f74ee6fdd8c7147e5ac0dbf227d5f8d13b87cc/18-18-But-like-if-i-only-spent-my-money-on-food2.png" data-mid="108965582" border="0" 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height="3556" width_o="1200" height_o="3556" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec5069b25bc808d9c9c3bdd1611ca769831927ab910d32255bcaf895d071e50f/To-Do.jpg" data-mid="108968808" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec5069b25bc808d9c9c3bdd1611ca769831927ab910d32255bcaf895d071e50f/To-Do.jpg" /> https://chrisheller.info/writing Wed, 19 May 2021 19:27:00 +0000 chrisheller.info https://chrisheller.info/writing writing <img width="1500" height="1493" width_o="1500" height_o="1493" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d40062662258714b89eacee4108bd4b5f6199ef55c11166828505bf9128cdfd5/chris2.jpeg" data-mid="108963351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d40062662258714b89eacee4108bd4b5f6199ef55c11166828505bf9128cdfd5/chris2.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="1493" width_o="1500" height_o="1493" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c227e774748f965e14a8a81728c0c985c02bd3aa5cefb8ff223b5623d5143b0/chris1.jpeg" 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