Visual artist whose work encompasses video harvested from socially collaborative and unscripted performances. Using a multi-disciplinary practice of drawing, painting, live feed projections, performance, and video re-inscribes the human figure.
Derek Brueckner is a visual artist and art educator. His most recent work encompasses video harvested from socially collaborative and unscripted performances. Using a multi-disciplinary practice of drawing, painting, live feed projections, performance and video, he re-inscribes and re-imagines the human figure through his collaborators’ processes of improvisation and facilitated play.
Artist residencies have included spaces in Italy, Vermont, Brooklyn, New Orleans, and Toronto. Solo exhibitions and participatory projects in the US have been presented at arts spaces in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Orleans. Derek also co-hosts an arts radio talk show on CKUW 95.9 FM at University of Winnipeg. Media coverage of his work includes Globe & Mail, Border Crossings, Queens Courier Magazine, the NOLA Defender and OffBeat Magazine. Awarded grants from Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council and Vermont Studio Center. Education includes MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York.
Often the unscripted performances become live public laboratory spaces for exploring ideas. Some performers want to utilize the performance and installation or the improvising with a prop as a platform for their voice. Simultaneously they allow themselves to be adapted into a context that may have ideas and metaphors separate from their own.
The goal for each project is to inspire a multiplicity of platforms that can exist inside a larger work. The unscripted and participatory process allows a single piece to house various contributions of thinking, sharing and expressing.
The work continues to combine various aspects of the process, resulting in edited videos (and eventually paintings) that collectively reference the labour of making, experimentation, and social improvisation while simultaneously striving to identify and acknowledge each performer’s inventive mind, voice, and body.
The work also continues to engage in themes of protean embodiment and technology where unscripted performances integrate with shifting and overlapping live-feed video projections of the performers. Distinctions of segregation and segmentation in the work are challenged by linking spaces between the often-isolated forms of practice, process, production, documentation, audience, participants, rehearsal and performance.
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  • Director (4 Credits)
    DUO PROJECT: Corresponding Improvisations2023
    Experimental
    YARD CYCLES - Part1: Polyptych Rough Cuts2023
    Experimental, Short
    "BLANKET" 2022
    Experimental, Short
    Social Improvisations 22021
    Experimental, Short
  • Producer (3 Credits)
    DUO PROJECT: Corresponding Improvisations2023
    Experimental
    YARD CYCLES - Part1: Polyptych Rough Cuts2023
    Experimental, Short
    "BLANKET" 2022
    Experimental, Short
  • Concept & Videographer (1 Credit)
    YARD CYCLES - Part1: Polyptych Rough Cuts2023
    Experimental, Short
  • Editors & Archiving (1 Credit)
    YARD CYCLES - Part1: Polyptych Rough Cuts2023
    Experimental, Short
  • Cameras & Projectors (1 Credit)
  • Editor (1 Credit)
Official Slection as Quarter Finalist for Best Experimental Film
"BLANKET"
Winter Leopard International Film Festival - Official Slection as Quarter Finalist for Best Experimental Film
Stockholme
2024
Winner for Best Experimental Short Film: https://www.facebook.com/.../pcb.../248514067668996
"BLANKET"
Durban International Short Film Festival - Winner Best Experimental Short Film
Durban
2023
Winner Best Experimental Short Film - May 2023
"BLANKET"
Quatar Independent Film Festival - Winner Best Experimental Short Film - May 2023
2023
Winner for Best Experimental Short Film
"BLANKET"
Dubai International Film Festival - Winner Best Experimental Short Film
Dubai
2023
Official Selection for Best Short Film Under 5min (All genres)
"BLANKET"
Dubai Festival - Official Selection for Best Short Film Under 5min (All genres)
Dubai
2023
Official Selection for Best Experimental Short Film
"BLANKET"
Dubai Festival - Official Selection for Best Experimental Short Film
Dubai
2023
Winner Best Experimental Short Film - May 2023
"BLANKET"
Busan Short - Feature Film Festival - Winner Best Experimental Short Film - May 2023
Busan
2023
Winner of Best Experimental Short Film
"BLANKET"
Tekka International Film Festival - Winner Best Experimental Short Film
Singapore
2023
Special Mention Award for Best Experimental Short Film
"BLANKET"
Sittannavasal International Film Festival - Special Mention Award for Best Experimental Short Film
Karaiyur
2023
Official Selection for Best Experimental Short Film
"BLANKET"
Hercules Independent Film Festival - Official Selection for Best Experimental Short Film
Seville
2023
Winner Best Experimental Short Film - June 2023
"BLANKET"
Sarvin International FILM Festival - Winner Best Experimental Short Film - June 2023
Vilupppuram
2023
Official Selection for Best Experimental Short Film
"BLANKET"
Milan Shorts Film Festival - Official Selection as Finalist for Best Experimental Short Film
Milan
2023
Special Jury Award - Best Experimental Short Film
"BLANKET"
Kollywood International Film Festival - Special Jury Award for Best Experimental Short Film
Chennai, Tamilnadu
2023
Award of Recognition
"BLANKET"
The IndieFEST Film Awards - Award of Recognition
La Jolla
2023
Official Selection for Best Short Film
"BLANKET"
Bloody Hats Film Festival - Official Selection for Best Short Film
Stuttgart
2023
Official Selection for Experimental Short Film
"BLANKET"
Berlin Short Film Festival - Official Selection for Experimental Short Film
Berlin
2023
Official Selection for Online Festival
"BLANKET"
Cannes Independent Film Festival - Official Selection for Experimental Short Film
Cannes
2023
College
Department of Art, Hunter College, City University of New York
MFA in Painting
19891991
Visual artist whose work encompasses video harvested from socially collaborative and unscripted performances. Using a multi-disciplinary practice of drawing, painting, live feed projections, performance, and video re-inscribes the human figure.
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