Romanian-born Canadian artist Laura Taler works across
a range of media including performance, film, sound, sculpture, and
installation. Her work explores how memory and history are linked to movement
and how the body is able to carry the past without being oppressed by it. Taler
began her career as a contemporary dance choreographer before turning her
attention to filmmaking and visual art. Her work has been praised for its
unique combination of emotional resonance, wit, and striking visuals. She
has been a resident at the Banff Center for the Arts, Centro Cultural Recoleta
(Buenos Aires), Carleton Immersive Media Studio (Ottawa) and a fellow at the
Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin). Awards include a Gold Hugo from
the Chicago International Film Festival, the Best Experimental Documentary
award from Hot Docs!, and Best of the Festival from New York’s Dance on Camera
Festival. Publications include Tension/Spannung(Turia+Kant, 2010), Revisiting Ephemera (Blue Medium Press, 2011)
and Embodied Fantasies (Peter Lang Publishing, 2013). In
2020/21 she was artist-in-residence at the Ottawa Dance Directive. Taler is the most recent recipient of Galerie
SAW Gallery's Dennis Tourbin Prize for New Performance.
COLLABORATORS:
STACY CLARK BAISLEY
SOPHIE GIRAUD
MELANIE GORDON
JEREMY MIMNAGH
MARK SHAUB
JUSTIN WONNACOTT
BEN WELLAND
MINDY WILTSHIRE-GIBSON
MEREDITH SNIDER
KRISTY KENNEDY
DAVID BARBOUR
JULIA MARTIN
MAUDE BOURASSA FRANCOEUR
CHRISTIAN BUJOLD
MICHEAL SPICER
D. GREGOR HAGEY
MARCUS ELLIOT
VLAD CARP
NORAYR KASPER
ROLAND SCHLIMME
ROBERT BENSON
NEVEN LOCHHEAD
VENSA SVILANOVIC
ANNA PAFOMOW
MARK HAMMOND
LOUISE GARFIELD
DANNY IRON
ALLISON LEWIS FORTIER
STEPHANIE TRELOAR
JOSE NAVAS
LUC OELLETTE
TRACEY GLAS
HEATHER MACCRIMMON
DAGMAR MORATH
DAGIE BRUNDERT
MARIA ANGERMAN
KIM FRANK
JIM ALLODI
JANE TOWNSEND
DARCEY CALLISON
DONALD HIMES
BILL COLEMAN
WALTER HAMAN
TRACY SMITH BESSETTE
HEIDI STRAUSS
TEDD ROBINSON
YVONNE COUTTES
AME HENDERSON
JESSICA BELL
TOM MCCAMUS
MICHELLE MONTEITH
JACK DUFFY
PHILIP STRONG
WASSIM NORAH
CONNOR DEVRIES
MARISA GALLEMIT
MÉLANIE MYERS
SOPHIE GIRAUD
MELANIE GORDON
JEREMY MIMNAGH
MARK SHAUB
JUSTIN WONNACOTT
BEN WELLAND
MINDY WILTSHIRE-GIBSON
MEREDITH SNIDER
KRISTY KENNEDY
DAVID BARBOUR
JULIA MARTIN
MAUDE BOURASSA FRANCOEUR
CHRISTIAN BUJOLD
MICHEAL SPICER
D. GREGOR HAGEY
MARCUS ELLIOT
VLAD CARP
NORAYR KASPER
ROLAND SCHLIMME
ROBERT BENSON
NEVEN LOCHHEAD
VENSA SVILANOVIC
ANNA PAFOMOW
MARK HAMMOND
LOUISE GARFIELD
DANNY IRON
ALLISON LEWIS FORTIER
STEPHANIE TRELOAR
JOSE NAVAS
LUC OELLETTE
TRACEY GLAS
HEATHER MACCRIMMON
DAGMAR MORATH
DAGIE BRUNDERT
MARIA ANGERMAN
KIM FRANK
JIM ALLODI
JANE TOWNSEND
DARCEY CALLISON
DONALD HIMES
BILL COLEMAN
WALTER HAMAN
TRACY SMITH BESSETTE
HEIDI STRAUSS
TEDD ROBINSON
YVONNE COUTTES
AME HENDERSON
JESSICA BELL
TOM MCCAMUS
MICHELLE MONTEITH
JACK DUFFY
PHILIP STRONG
WASSIM NORAH
CONNOR DEVRIES
MARISA GALLEMIT
MÉLANIE MYERS
Laura Taler greatfully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council,
the City of Ottawa, the Toronto Arts Council, the Laidlaw Foundation, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and Telefilm Canada.