Alexander
Wilson (01ek) is an interdiciplinary artist, musician,
theatre director, and theorist based in Montreal, Canada. He composes
electro-acoustic music, produces experimental videos, interactive
media and architectural installations, and directs physical theatrical
events in immersive environments. His artistic propositions invariably
materialize philosophical interrogations into the structure of meaning,
the potential for human agency, and the metaphysics of the body,
space and time. Co-founder of Parabolik Guerilla Theatre ,
he is currently directing $ymbolocaust , an experimental
play which will open in May 2007, in Montreal. His interactive architecture
installation, Hinge_Dimension , a collaboration with interaction
designer and architect Karmen Franinovic, was commissioned by the
Enter_Unknown Territories media-arts festival, in Cambridge UK (April,
2007). His multichannel audio-video collaboration with filmmaker
Seth Poulin, Decay Line , is premiering at Elektra 8 festival,
Montreal, May 2007. Alexander is half of the experimental music
duo, Élan d'Amérique , with Alexandre St-Onge.
In 2006, he directed the ambitious, Social Reproduction Machine
(version 3) , a technological micro-theatre installed in the
back of a rented moving-truck, parked in downtown Montreal. In 2005,
Alexander composed the operatic soundtrack of the Parabolik
Guerilla Theatre production, A Ship to Namuh , directed
by Melanie Verville. In recent years, Alexander has realized many
videos and installations for which he also composed the original
music, such as the Social Reproduction Machine (version 2) (interactive
video-installation, Gallerie Bourget, 2006), Genesis: Three
Magi (Centre SKOL, 2005), Execution (Centre SKOL 2005) and Anti-Sacrifice (presented
at the Amsterdam Film Experience festival in October 2006), and Holey
Space, Sync!, and Dance With Me , Society for Arts and
Technology, 2000- 2002. Alexander is currently completing FQRSC
and SSHRC-funded research into the dynamic relations between the
body, meaning and space-time, as part of his Masters in Fine Art,
at Concordia University, Montreal. |