For the fifth IOTA Bio Art Kitchen, IOTA Institute and INCUBATOR Art Lab host a livestream tattoo demonstration with Dion Kaszas on IOTA’s Youtube channel. Dion Kaszas will be tattooing Ecko Aleck live from Secwepemc territory.
Dion is an IOTA research and collective member. He has been working with IOTA through a research residency (2019-2021), exploring links between the creation of Nlaka’pamux Blackwork tattooing and Bio Art. Dion positions his Nlaka’pamux Blackwork tattoo practice in relation to bio art, as a way to question the biology of bodies as art in the gallery or museum space, and to challenge ways that arts and sciences hierarchically prioritize all of creation. Dion will bring us into his studio to witness a durational tattoo session, and discuss his research.
We’ll be livestreaming from IOTA’s Youtube channels on Wednesday October 20th, 2021 at:
Vancouver (PDT): 4:00 pm
Windsor (EST): 7:00 pm
Halifax (ADT): 8:00 pm
About Dion Kaszas
Dion Kaszas is a tattoo artist, cultural tattoo practitioner, painter, teacher, and scholar of Hungarian, Métis, and Nlaka’pamux (Interior Salish) heritage. His area of research is Indigenous tattooing, focusing keenly on the revival of Indigenous peoples tattooing practices, using Indigenous and creative research methodologies. Dion is one of the founding members of the Earthline Tattoo Collective which aims to enhance, expand and support the work of traditional and cultural Indigenous tattoo practices across Canada.
About Ecko Aleck
As a tattoo collaborator with Dion Kaszas, Ecko Aleck will be a part of our upcoming livestream while getting an Nlaka’pamux Blackwork tattoo. Thank you Ecko for letting us be a part of this moment with you!
Ecko Aleck was born into the Nlaka’pamux Nation, raised with the shishalh Nation and currently living on the unceded ancestral lands of the Pentlatch people. She is a global facilitator, multimedia performing artist working through the disciplines of spoken word, rap and singing. She is also a multimedia digital artist working through the mediums of music, sound and video production. In 2019, she launched her business Sacred Matriarch Creative weaving together all of her gifts.
Marc Dusseiller
Speaker, Curator
Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for micro- and nanotechnology, cultural facilitator and artist.
Hackteria
Platform, Bio Art Hacking resource
As a community platform hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their experitise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with lifescience technologies and cooperate on the organization of workshops, temporary labs, hack-sprints and meetings.
Marta Menezes
Artist, Speaker
Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology,... Read More
Jennifer Willet
Artist, Co-host, Speaker
Dr. Jennifer Willet, Director of INCUBATOR Lab, and Associate Professor in the School of Creative Arts, at the University of Windsor (Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working in art and technology, bioart and social practice genres.
Oron Catts
Artist, Speaker
Catts is the Co-Founder and Director of SymbioticA: the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and was a Professor of Contestable Design at the Royal College for the Arts UK.
Ionat Zurr
Artist, Speaker
Dr Ionat Zurr is the Chair of the Fine Arts Discipline at the School of Design UWA and SymbioticA’s academic co-ordinator