Biography
My sound installation and performance projects are sensorial environments of materials, matter, and sonic becomings that offer a speculative timespace of sound, sensation, and differing. Listening to the sense and nonsense of sound is a subjective and intersubjective engagement with the materiality and relationality of sound in the timespace of sound’s occurrence. The sensoriality of sound affirms embodied knowing and fluctuation. Also see STATEMENT.
My work has been presented throughout Canada and internationally in solo, collaborative, and interdisciplinary projects with performing and visual artists, computer scientists and engineers, and community groups.
Born in Toronto, I have lived and worked across Canada.
CONTACT:
moffat.e@sasktel.net
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UPCOMING
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RECENT
2023: Virtual Encounters, with Endlings (Raven Chacon & John Dietrich): performance and virtual conversation, May 18 (7:30) EDT, conversation at 8:00. Presented by LOMAA (London Ontario Media Art Association). seeds strings and sounding things is available on Vimeo on-demand: https://vimeo.com/lomaa
CD Launch, A Rested Development with Eeva Siivonen + performance with Marla Hlady + multiple other performances. Presented by squint press in conjunction with Suoni Per Il Popolo, June 11, Casa del Populo, Montreal
Interlude, in 20/50 Anniversary Show, with Steve Bates, Terry Billings, Lisa Birke, Linda Duvall, Sandra Semchuk, Adrian Stinson, curated by David Laviviere, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
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SOLO Exhibitions
2021: becoming again beginning undone, Thesis Exhibition, McIntosh Gallery, London
2018: Small Sonorities: A Little Piece of String, curated by Troy Gronsdahl, Remai Modern, Saskatoon
2015: Playing with Gertrude, New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video, Toronto
2013: She I Her, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon
2011: PickUpPutDown, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
Lines, Tones and Spaces, Port Loggia, NSCAD U, Halifax
vBox, Project Space, Open Sound, Surrey Art Gallery
COMP OSE, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario
2009: COMP OSE, Doris McCarthy Gallery, U of T-Scarborough, Toronto
2008: COMP OSE, College Building Gallery, U of S, Saskatoon (catalogue)
2006: Claybank Voices, Art Gallery of Swift Current
BLOW, Estevan National Exhibition Centre, Estevan
SoundsNervouse, The New Gallery, Calgary
SoundsNervouse, WPK Kennedy Centre, North Bay
2005: Fault Lines, MacKenzie Art Gallery (New Acquisitions), Regina (catalogue)
2004: BLOW, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (catalogue)
2001: Line Break, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury
1999: Shades of Black and White, Neutral Ground, Regina
1998: Shades of Black and White, The Little Gallery, Prince Albert (catalogue)
1995: Still Life/Nature Morte, MFA Exhibition, Scotia Centre’s Galleria, Regina
TWO & THREE PERSON Exhibitions
2017: Discs, with Michael Koch, Gallery 12-14 Contemporary, Vienna
2011: Marking Space, with Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Kentler International Drawing Gallery, Brooklyn (publication)
2009: Eidola, W Brent & E Moffat, Open Space, Victoria (catalogue), curated by Ted Heibert and David Cecchetta
2003: Guessed House, E Moffat, L Duvall, R VKnowles, AKA, Saskatoon (catalogue)
2003: Surface Tension, E Moffat & R Horowitz, NAC, St Catherines
2002: Passages, E Moffat & J Ryckman, TRUCK Gallery, Calgary (publication)
2000: E Moffat & F Robson, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon
1999: Fixations, E Moffat & D Askevold, MSVU, Halifax(catalogue)
1999: Non-Places, E Moffat & J Peacock, Dunlop Art Gallery – Sherwood, Regina
1994: Inside Outside, E Moffat & R Chambers, Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina
GROUP Exhibitions (Selected)
2021: Written on the Earth, curated by Helen Gregory, McIntosh Gallery, London
2019: Please – Do Not Take This Lightly, Project Coordinator, Patrick Mahon, artLAB, UWO, London
2018: Transformables V, curated by Eric Mattson, Latitude 53, Edmonton
2017-2020: VibraFusionLab: Bridging Practices in Accessibility, Art and Communication, SW Ontario tour: Chatham (Thames Art Gallery); Toronto (VTape); London; Hamilton (Centre 3); Guelph (Civic Museum)
2017: Roaming 2: Bridges, curated by Xiao Han, International Faculty Show, Hubei Institute of Fine Art and University of Saskatchewan, Wuhan, China
2017: Greatest Hits, Staff and Sessional Exhibition, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan
2016: Echoing (Silent) Mechanisms, curated by Eric Mattson, Sounds Like, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
2015: rhubarb, rhubarb, peas and carrots, curated by Blair Fornwald, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
2013: ping ting tootle, situated interactive sound installation in CAFKA, Kitchener
2012: in pulse with Kim Morgan in Place Markers: Mapping Locaitons and Probing Boundaries, curated by Peter Dykhuis, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
2010: How I Learned to Stop…, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, U of S, Saskatoon
2008: spinning slowly, Night Trains, Salon Ba’stav, Tel Aviv
2007: Art is Not Mute, Ersta Konsthall Sound Archive, Stockholm, Sweden: Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary; Botkyrka Konstall, Sweden; Hit, Gotenburg, Sweden
2006: Claybank Voices: How Men Turned White Mud into Cape Canaveral, curated by Kathleen Irwin and Rory McDonald in Mama Wetotan / Crossfiring, Knowhere Prod & CommonWeal, , SK (publication)
2005: Sound Madness 1, Sound + Vision Residency, The Banff Centre, Banff
2004: Civil Fugue, in Future Cities, curated by Shirley Madill, Art Gallery of Hamilton (publication)
2003: Utopia Station, FLEAS collective with M Rosler, Arsenale, Venice Biennale
2003: Utopia Station Poster project, FLEAS collective with M Rosler, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2003: Sprawl: Beyond the Field of Vision, Museum London (publication)
2002: Altars and Shrines, The Little Gallery, Prince Albert (catalogue)
2001: The Infinite Between, Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown
2001: Viewing Distance, touring exhibition. Swift Current, Estevan, Moose Jaw, Prince Albert
2001: The Infinite Between, Gallery 44, Toronto (publication)
2000: Utopia and Desire, The Little Gallery, Prince Albert
1998: Do It, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES
2022: Sounding Bodies|Body Soundings, collaborative performance with Helen Pridmore, Sonorities Festival, Belfast (April 6-10)
2019: Sounding Bodies|Body Soundings, with Helen Pridmore, Real Sound, \Sounds Like\ An Audio Festival, Saskatoon (Oct 10-12)
2018: Texturings, with Eeva Siivonen, in attendance, Forest City Gallery, London
2015: (un)quiet d, with Robert Luzar, Gallery G, Toronto
2014: Book Chair Table with Lia Pas; performed with SSO Chamber Players, Core Series V (In Transformation), Saskatoon
2013: book.table.chair, interdisciplinary project with Kathryn Ricketts; Nightswimming – Pure Research, with Brian Quirt and DD Kugler, Vancouver
2013: cruising, video with Kim Morgan as part of Tracing the City, SSHRC-Creation and Production Grant with Kim Morgan, Solomon Nagler, Martha Radice
2011: Strung with Jeff Morton, Sounds Like Audio Festival, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon
2010: MOO, site-specific sound installation with Jeff Morton, Agribition, Regina
2010: Realms of Knowing, performative book and sound project with Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Toronto
2007: Convocare/Consonare with David Gerhard, International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen
2007: Art of Immersive Soundscapes with David Gerhard, U of R, Regina
2002: Track, SPASM Public Art Festival, Video Vérité, Saskatoon
PERFORMANCES and SCREENINGS
2021: A Rested Development with Eeva Siivonen, 12-12-12, curated by Christof Migone, Dec 12
2020: Virtual presentation of recorded sound performance: duet with Helen Pridmore, and trio with Marla Hlady and Gordon Monahan, Drone Day, of-the-now
2016: Surface : Signal, solo performance in Echoing (Silent) Mechanisms, Sounds Like Audio Festival, Saskatoon
2015: book, solo performance at Club Saw, Ottawa and Cathedral Village Art Festival, Regina
2014: Repetition, performed by members of Bozzini Quatuor and others, Concordia Creative Music Institute, La Vitrola, Montreal
2013: Chaser, solo piano performance for PLAY by Kathleen Irwin and Jeff Morton, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
2013: in pulse, video presentation, Poeticizing the Urban Apparatus Conference, Culture of Cities Centre, NYC
2012: in pulse, video presentation, Ambiances, Montreal
2009: Art’s Birthday, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
2006: Far and Few: Art in the Air, Struts Gallery, Sackville
2006: Performed Installation, Western Front, Vancouver
2006: This City is a Radio, PAVED Art + New Media, Saskatoon
2005: Video Installation, Curb Appeal, Confederation Centre, Charlottetown
2005: Art in the Air, Struts Gallery, Sackville
2005: Now, PAVED Art + New Media, Saskatoon
2005: Upstream Saskatchewan (video), PAVED Art + New Media, Saskatoon
2003: Screening, Production Support Projects (video), Video Vérité, Saskatoon
COMPOSITIONS & DISCOGRAPHY
2016: Book (remix) in Oscar’s Salon, on-line project, Betsy Warland
2013: Chaser, performance in PLAY by K Irwin & J Morton, Dunlop Art Gallery
2011: MOO, with Jeff Morton
2009: urbansubsonic, Saskatoon
2007: spinning slowly, with Yonatan Kunda and nilsOn Muniz, Tel Aviv
2005-08: The Phoneme Project
2006: Claybank Voices: How Men made White Mud… (CD catalogue )
2004: BLOW (catalogue with audio CD)
2002: Fault Lines (catalogue with audio CD and DVD)
2000: Transitive (artist book / catalogue with CD)
RESIDENCIES
2019: Collaborative Senior Artists Residency with Helen Pridmore, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
2016: Research and Travel Residency, Yosuga Art Space, Kyoto
2015: Co-prod, Charles St Video and New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto
2013: Jean Johnston Residency, Art and Art History Department U of S, Saskatoon
2012: Paris International Residency, Canada Council for the Arts
2011: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
2010: Canadian Western Agribition, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina
2010: Interrarium Interdisciplinary Workshop, The Banff Centre, Banff
2007: Production Residency, Oboro Media Centre, Montreal
2007: Art of Immersive Soundscapes 2 (ais2), University of Regina
2006: Western Front Artist-run Centre-Media Lab, Vancouver
2006: New Media Studio Lab, Dept of Media Production, University of Regina
2005: Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown
2005: Visual Arts Department, University of Regina, Regina
2005: Sound & Vision Residency, The Banff Centre, Banff
2002: Atlantic Centre for the Arts, New Smryna Beach, Florida
2001-02: Artist in Residence, Video Vérité Artist Centre, Saskatoon
2000: Discovery Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff
1998-99: Artist in Residence, CARFAC – Saskatchewan, Prince Albert
1998: Artist in Residence, Dunlop Art Gallery – Glen Elm Branch Library, Regina
1997-98: Artist in Residence, CARFAC – Saskatchewan, Prince Albert
1995-97: Artist in Residence, Prairie Trails Arts Council, Fort Qu’Appelle and area
COMMISSIONS and PUBLIC ART
2017: Small Sonorities: Material Signals, Web commission by Remai Modern Gallery
1998: Bench Marks Place, Core Area Art Park, Regina (commission)
1998: PLAY, Lakeridge Sports Park, Regina (commission)
1996: Signatures of Time (community collaboration), Fort Qu’Appelle, SK
1996: Inheritance, permanent installation, (collaboration), Lebret, SK
1995: A Place Called Home, (community collaboration), Lipton, SK
1994-95: Trace Elements, Rosemont Art Gallery – Les Sherman Park, Regina
1993: Threshold, University of Regina, Regina
1990: Imperial Highway, Concordia University (student competition)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2011-2017: Professional Affiliate, College of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Saskatchewan
2011-2014: member of Tracing the City, Social Sciences and Humanities Research-Creation and Production Grant: Principals: Solomon Nagler, Kim Morgan, Martha Radice
TEACHING & CULTURAL WORK
2020: Sessional Instructor, Visual Art Department, University of Western Ontario, London
2017: Sessional Lecturer, Extended Media, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2016: Sessional Lecturer, Extended Media, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2016: Co-Instructor, Digital Storytelling, Sage Hill Writing and ICCC, U of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2015: Sessional Lecturer, Extended Media, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2014: Co-Instructor, Digital Storytelling, Sage Hill Writing and ICCC, U of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2013: FreeLab, co-instruction, The Asphalt Gallery Project, SSHRC (Tracing the City Project) and Dalhousie University, Halifax
2010: Sessional Lecturer, Extended Media, U of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2007-2010: Guest Curator, aneco new public art, City of Saskatoon
2007: Mentor, The Walls Have Ears, Audio Production, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
2005-07: Mentor, CARFAC-Sask Mentoring Program, Saskatchewan
2002-04: Projects Coordinator, SPASM Public Art Festival, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
2001: Interim Programming Coordinator, Video Vérité, Saskatoon
2001: Sessional Lecturer, Intro to Extended Media, U of S Extension, La Ronge
1999: Coordinator, Land Art Walkabout, Prince Albert
1998: Coordinator, Satellite of Superposition, Art & Science Fair, Prince Albert
1997: Sessional Lecturer, Sculpture, University of Regina
1995: Sessional Lecturer, Introduction to 3-Dimensions, University of Regina
1994: Teaching Fellowships (2 semesters), University of Regina
1993: Teaching Assistant, Introduction to 3-Dimensions, University of Regina
1993: Coordinator, Metal Urges, Neutral Ground-CMS Metal Yard Project, Regina
1991-92: Co-Director, Visual Arts Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
CONFERENCES (Selected)
2013: cruising with Kim Morgan, Urban Encounters – SSHRC Conference, NSCAD U, Halifax
2013: in pulse, video presentation, Poeticizing the Urban Apparatus Conference, Culture of Cities Centre, NYC
2012: “Affective Space, Locative Bodies”, with Kim Morgan, Ambiances International, Montreal
2012: in pulse, video presentation, Ambiances, Montreal
2011: Artist Talk, Cineflux, Tracing the City, NSCADU, Halifax
2011: “Unmediating the City” Media Ecology Association, Edmonton
2011: Artist Talk, Big Things, Sculpture Symposium, Allen Sapp Gallery, North Battleford
2007: Convocare / Consonare, presentation with David Gerhard, International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen
EDUCATION
PhD in Studio, University of Western Ontario, London (2021)
MFA, Sculpture, University of Regina, Regina (1995)
BFA, Studio, Concordia University, Montreal (1992)
BA, Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto (1977)