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Fri, 15 May 2026 13:51:41 +0000 https://naakitafk.com en https://naakitafk.com/Untitled-Page Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:02:53 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/Untitled-Page https://naakitafk.com/selected-works Sat, 01 May 2021 00:25:09 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/selected-works Slippery Intimacies<img width="1200" height="600" width_o="1200" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f99c2ee1b5525bfc2742c4cd2915d8a06e0a003697e8bb85c61721b7b1f16273/website-image-_-slippery-intimacies.png" data-mid="249683904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f99c2ee1b5525bfc2742c4cd2915d8a06e0a003697e8bb85c61721b7b1f16273/website-image-_-slippery-intimacies.png" /> • Porous Bodies<img width="972" height="592" width_o="972" height_o="592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c774ba52676ff65c6ff0a924c275cae818f987ef3b7e743ddb0b5434b57b94df/PorousBodiesWebsiteImage.png" data-mid="249379731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/972/i/c774ba52676ff65c6ff0a924c275cae818f987ef3b7e743ddb0b5434b57b94df/PorousBodiesWebsiteImage.png" /> • What Fills a Hole?<img width="350" height="599" width_o="350" height_o="599" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f125fa75032aa659695f9c3992beeed0e35ea1de762f6de69551c652b2fbdaa6/IMG_4988.png" data-mid="247155815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/350/i/f125fa75032aa659695f9c3992beeed0e35ea1de762f6de69551c652b2fbdaa6/IMG_4988.png" /> • The World is its Memory<img width="831" height="503" width_o="831" height_o="503" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d9e1273e04698d8c53f732610f2ea0ffb9e3572267203e954876e63d4647b5a/oscaria_swinhoei_-_s4annalsmagazine12londuoft_0529_0-1.png" data-mid="243953800" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/831/i/2d9e1273e04698d8c53f732610f2ea0ffb9e3572267203e954876e63d4647b5a/oscaria_swinhoei_-_s4annalsmagazine12londuoft_0529_0-1.png" /> • To meet your resting place <img width="789" height="593" width_o="789" height_o="593" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9b37f286f1bc51bf4f3d8b2adb5a109e72a44bbeeeac4b9d3b67be5fb48439f/do-not-dig_transparency.png" data-mid="235240616" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/789/i/b9b37f286f1bc51bf4f3d8b2adb5a109e72a44bbeeeac4b9d3b67be5fb48439f/do-not-dig_transparency.png" /> • The rain remembers its life as sea<img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d73a486de49c36b0fda59be9cc0ec6bb66e49d0905c379f90a93490e7d06957/775A8923.png" data-mid="235191801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d73a486de49c36b0fda59be9cc0ec6bb66e49d0905c379f90a93490e7d06957/775A8923.png" /> • Here and there, now and then<img width="720" height="527" width_o="720" height_o="527" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6363b4d9cf15e7ffcd0c954c0748eab898ad9389d5b98f797e1e451b02ae2177/14953795858_9fd3837482_b.png" data-mid="229233056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/6363b4d9cf15e7ffcd0c954c0748eab898ad9389d5b98f797e1e451b02ae2177/14953795858_9fd3837482_b.png" /> • Meeting Points<img width="1576" height="1004" width_o="1576" height_o="1004" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37e5e28629fc6f6ee41b24fd2bbc8f2f1047aadb3be35e085f1baa14dd85e58c/MeetingPointsII_transparent.png" data-mid="225082039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37e5e28629fc6f6ee41b24fd2bbc8f2f1047aadb3be35e085f1baa14dd85e58c/MeetingPointsII_transparent.png" /> • July, 1953.<img width="1214" height="996" width_o="1214" height_o="996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b848a4e36a984be9b001758e81b10aebedd0996e265ddbb53ab5d21eb56bc35/TelegramStill_1.png" data-mid="183715018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b848a4e36a984be9b001758e81b10aebedd0996e265ddbb53ab5d21eb56bc35/TelegramStill_1.png" /> • A Common Babble<img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5bd61f518fb4a7983675b7155831d110f45810f1a54615b406f4b644814214e/ACommonBabble_transparent.png" data-mid="225085684" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5bd61f518fb4a7983675b7155831d110f45810f1a54615b406f4b644814214e/ACommonBabble_transparent.png" /> • I was once seafloor<img width="1000" height="1127" width_o="1000" height_o="1127" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/645bc45bb29c09f1329c865721dd12e528d673cca705447e18d09fadee6f3234/IMG_1165_small.png" data-mid="184149801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/645bc45bb29c09f1329c865721dd12e528d673cca705447e18d09fadee6f3234/IMG_1165_small.png" /> • The Density of Dust<img width="920" height="630" width_o="920" height_o="630" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/956417a7918e007a746c4229524975aacae6a6c48cd517191d11ac260221bc6d/3_The-Density-of-Brick_Still_transparent_sm.png" data-mid="153784478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/920/i/956417a7918e007a746c4229524975aacae6a6c48cd517191d11ac260221bc6d/3_The-Density-of-Brick_Still_transparent_sm.png" /> • Stone Tape: A haunting<img width="487" height="538" width_o="487" height_o="538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4c9356da08989fe74421a6ba5d2c7776cd13f25c28e395f387f665a5bab9563/Screenshot-40_small.png" data-mid="120905248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/487/i/a4c9356da08989fe74421a6ba5d2c7776cd13f25c28e395f387f665a5bab9563/Screenshot-40_small.png" /> • On Interdependence<img width="850" height="850" width_o="850" height_o="850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15a2875d7d3ab84213aec2992ed7eb8802f948459bc523587c118fd11c553d0e/OnInterdependence_Web.png" data-mid="110230302" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/850/i/15a2875d7d3ab84213aec2992ed7eb8802f948459bc523587c118fd11c553d0e/OnInterdependence_Web.png" /> • Wednesdays, Before Piano.<img width="1139" height="654" width_o="1139" height_o="654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61363847e35870f0063f383ee92c1db8a3aef768a35e2929583610971555cb4c/WednesdaysBeforePiano_web.png" data-mid="110199534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61363847e35870f0063f383ee92c1db8a3aef768a35e2929583610971555cb4c/WednesdaysBeforePiano_web.png" /> • Toward Be/Longing<img width="799" height="988" width_o="799" height_o="988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a749fd497442457845346146f0f944afeee230d1e375155c3f331ac272d00c0c/TowardBeLonging_Web.png" data-mid="110197018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/799/i/a749fd497442457845346146f0f944afeee230d1e375155c3f331ac272d00c0c/TowardBeLonging_Web.png" /> https://naakitafk.com/about Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:27:13 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/about I like to tell stories until they touch. To do so, I analyze extractive projects, outlining the systems that create the foundations of this world, revealing the way all things are interconnected, emphasizing that all violences have the same origins. How can we work through the history of a place to get to the next one? The histories of colonisation, imperialism and capitalism are entangled with the history of the image. I explore how innovations of the image stem from war and extraction, and aim to demonstrate the many ways they have been harnessed by these systems to perpetuate and normalize violence. I’m interested in the types of authority that emerge from different photographic approaches. Lately, I’ve been thinking about satellite imagery, microscopy, stereoscopy and slide viewers, but I’m sure others will become of interest to me in the time that this text circulates. I say all of this while also highlighting how critical I am of my own gaze. At what point does doing this work become fetishistic or violatory itself? I wonder about the artist’s implication in the history and discourse surrounding extraction. To image is to extract. To archive is to extract. To research, collate and disseminate knowledge is also to extract. So what then, when an artist looks at visual histories of extractive projects to produce knowledge that, through art making, critiques those histories and ideologies? The circle collapses in on itself, a sort of ouroboros. But, aesthetics are a necessary tool for rearrangement. The act of doing these things is an act of remaking these things. In some ways I’m an essayist, but writing in an expanded form. I’m committed to interdisciplinarity, stories deserve a say in the containers used to tell them. Audio, video, photography, scent, sculpture, text and textile coalesce in my installations, and so does your body. I invite you to learn with your body, to touch, to bend, to sniff, to lie down. I want to slow your pace and evoke a state change that enables you to take in information differently when you’re invited to do presence differently. I hope that my work reminds you of your body, because it is only with our bodies that knowledge and practice can come together in meaningful ways. For this reason, I center my research-creation approach in acts of listening and acts of translation. My works are exercises in and invitations to listen differently. Soundworlds are infinite. If you listen closely, you can hear where pasts, presents and futures overlap. If you listen closely, you can hear where there is potential for new worlds too. I am invested in a perpetual undoing and unlearning of colonial logic at the core of the systems and practices that shape my subjects and methodologies. The practices of undoing and unlearning insist upon the impossibility of completion. Impossibility is a generative and expansive space for me, I spend a lot of time there. For instance…What is the smell of the deep sea? It is impossible to know. How can the voices contained in rock be translated? An anthropocentric approximation at best. What does it feel like to be subsumed by an asbestos tailing pile? Perhaps possible but certainly not advised. I love working through questions that necessitate failure, it’s honest. It also honours the gaps that are created through the process of retelling histories of a place. The life and livingness of a site are a fundamentally inaccessible part of my work. I ask myself how do we disrupt the colonial logic that dictates land is a site for extraction and capital gain. While I can take up that question through theory or through dreaming, in practice there is an inescapable micro-scale recreation of these systems. But I keep trying, because oceans were once thought to be bottomless and they say the power of imagining is emancipatory. https://naakitafk.com/news-press Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:10:33 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/news-press current + upcoming: My work “Porous Bodies” is on display at the Block Museum in Evanston, IL until June 14th as part of Northwestern’s MFA thesis exhibit “We can make any two stories touch” alongside&nbsp;Lamia Abukhadra, Pegah Bahador, Gabby Banks, and Przemek Pyszczek. The exhibition will be accompanied by an event of artist talks and readings on May 27th.I’ll be hosting a cameraless filmmaking workshop with the Art, Community, Environment working group at the Kaplan Institute on May 30th. Registration is open to all but RSVPs are required. 2026:I’m thrilled to be a part of this year’s Manif d’art, the Quebec Biennale. I’ll be showing a new iteration of “The rain remembers its life as sea” at the&nbsp;Baie-Saint-Paul Museum of Contemporary Art in an exhibition curated by Ally Rosilio.I have a new, site-specific installation titled “What fills a hole” in SKOL’s forthcoming exhibition&nbsp;“Reviving the Bookstore”. This group show brings together nine queer artists who each revisit L’Androgyne, Québec’s first gay, lesbian, and feminist bookstore, active from 1973 to 2002. The vernissage is January 29th at 6pm in Montreal, QC.I participated in the innaugural China America Reel Ecology film incubator program and travelled to Shanghai this summer for production on an experimental film telling the endling story of the last Yangtze giant softshell turtle. The work is currently in post-production and will premier in Chicago in February 2026, more details to come.I wrote a text about place-based practices for the new edition of Espace art actuel Magazine. The edition is available for purchase online, or you can buy it at the launch event on February 12th at&nbsp;Galerie de l'UQAM (Montreal, QC). 2025: “Stone Tape: A haunting (Chapter I)”(2021) and “prompts for attunement” (2023) will be a part of d’une poignée de terre, in a handful of soil at Adélard in Frelighsburg, QC, from May 17th until November 9th, 2025. The exhibit is curated by Noémie Fortin and features works by Amélie Bélanger, Frédéric Lavoie, Anne-Marie Proulx, and Eve Tagny. I was selected for&nbsp; CAFKA’s 2025 public art biennale and created a new work for the occassion called The rain remembers its life as sea. The work was performed on June 7th to open the biennale, and on July 26th to close it. “miss nothing that flies or swims” (2024) was on view at SITE Gallery in Chicago, IL from April 30th until May 21st. 2024: “I contribute writing and works from my time in the Yukon for Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning‘s upcoming anthology titled “Superbloom:Generating climate resilience” with a launch party that happened on February 4th from 7-8:30 pm at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centrein Whitehorse, YT.“A Common Babble” was installed as a multi-channel audio installation at Modern Fuel in Kingston, ON from September 14 - November 9th, 2024. My work “The Density of Dust” was on view throughout the summer at Place de la création in Montreal, QC as part of the 2024 edition of Regarde!, a public art exhibition curated by eunice bélidor. My new film miss nothing that flies or swims will be screening at the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) May 30, 31 and June 1st as part of the traces that remain, an exhibition curated by eunice bélidor.&nbsp;My solo exhibition, J’ai été autrefois un fond marin (I was once seafloor), will be installed at Maison Antoine-Beaudry in partnership with Ada X and la Maison Culture Pointe-aux-Trembles, Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC, from March 30 - May 12, 2024.My audio installation, A Common Babble, will be installed at Centre Clark’s Poste Audio, Montreal, QC April 11 - May 11, 2024.I had an incredible time as the filmmaker in residence with the Klondike Institute of Arts &amp; Culture in Dawson City, YT during the month of March. While I was there I had the privilege of sharing my work with the students at the Yukon School of Visual Arts and during the Dawson City International Short Film Festival. If you want to hear a bit about the research I was working on while in the Yukon you can listen here to a short interview I did with CBC North. 2023:My solo exhibition, July, 1953., will be installed at Gare de Matapedia,&nbsp;Matapedia, QC, from November 2023 until May 2024. Some excerpts from my recent work July, 1953. were published in Font Magazine’s summer 2023 edition. Stone Tape: A haunting, my final prayer @ Art Museum at the University of Toronto (curated by atif mikhail khan), Toronto, ON, May 3 – July 22, 2023 The Density of Dust, Co-presented by Images Festival and VTape (curated by Lisa Steele), Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, Toronto, ON, April 13 - May 6, 2023Gare Matapedia Residency, Fonderie Darling et Vaste et Vague, Matapedia, QC, February 1 - May 1, 2023Community Care and Personal Sustainability Across the Arts, Art Matters Festival 2023 Speaker Series, Montreal, QC, March 27, 2023I was once sea floor | In conversation with Lindsay Leblanc @ Ada X, Montreal, QC, January 25, 20232022:Artist in Residency - I was once sea floor, Ada X, Montreal, QC, October - December 2022The Density of Dust, Tu m'enveloppes et je te contiens @ Fonderie Darling (curated by Milly-Alexandra Dery), Montreal, QC, Fall 2022.Granting Access: How the grant landscape is changing &amp; what you need to know, Skillshare Workshop @ POP Montreal, Montreal, QC, September 28, 2022On Interdependence @ Concordia University, Montreal, QC, April 2022This Country is Like a Dreamland (a collaborative work with Yoon Rachel Nam and Tam Khoa Vu), JUSTICE @ MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), March 24 - April 9, 2022selected press:Eco-Cinema Across Borders: China-America Reel Ecology Project, interview with the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, September, 2025.Dimanche matin, dans un cimetière de Frelighsburg, exhibition review of D’une poignée de terre, a handful of soil in La presse, July, 2025. L’art visuel entre rituels et jardins funéraires, exhibition review of D’une poignée de terre, a handful of soil in Le devoir, July, 2025. J’ai été autrefois un fond marin | Allo Ada at RDP-PAT, Video interview with Ada X, Montreal, QC, 2024. Exhibition walkthrough: The Density of Dust by naakita feldman-kiss curated by Lisa Steele, VTape Video Art, May 2023Des télégrammes inspirent un projet artistique à Matapédia, Interview with Radio Canada (FR),&nbsp; April, 2023.I was once sea floor | naakita feldman-kiss, Video interview with Ada X, Montreal, QC, 2023.Virtual gallery tour for Tu m'enveloppes et je te contiens / Exposition anniversaire @ Fonderie Darling, curated by Milly-Alexandra Dery, Montreal, QC, 2022.L’incontournable Fonderie Darling, vingt ans plus tard, exhibition review of Tu m’enveloppes et je te contiens at Fonderie Darling in Le devoir, October 2022.Un cadeau pour 20 ans de création, exhibition review of Tu m’enveloppes et je te contiens at Fonderie Darling in La presse, September 2022.Maison d'Ariane artist residency feature in journal le soir and journal l’horizon, September 2021.Virtual gallery tour for Rencontre avec l'autre soi-même @ EXPRESSION, curated by Karen Tam, November 2020, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC.« Une exposition collective et le début d’une nouvelle tendance pour Expression » Le Courier de Saint-Hyacinthe, October 2020.Podcast feature with COHDScast, May 2019, Montreal, QC.Radio interview with atelier, March 2019, Montreal, QC.Public Syntax: SAW Video at Critical Distance, Digital Catalogue, February 2019.Digital artist talk for Chercher des personnes, des lieux ou d’autres choses @ Galerie-B312, July 2016, Montreal, QC.« La créativité de la Net Generation », Le Devoir, July 2016. https://naakitafk.com/cv Thu, 13 Mar 2014 05:47:36 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/cv SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; “The rain remembers its life as sea”, Performance, CAFKA Biennial, Kitchener, ON (2025) “A Common Babble”, Audio installation, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON (2024) “A Common Babble”, Audio installation, Centre Clark, Montreal, QC (2024) “J’ai été autrefois un fond marin”, Multimedia installation, Ada X and&nbsp;Maison Culture Pointe-aux-Trembles at&nbsp;Maison Antoine-Beaudry, Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC (2024) “July, 1953.”, Multimedia installation, Gare Matapedia, Matapedia, QC (2023-2024)“The Density of Dust”, Video installation, Images Festival and VTape at Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, Toronto, ON (2023)“I was once sea floor”, Multimedia installation, Ada X, Montreal, QC (2023)“On Interdependence”, Audio installation, Concordia University Library, Montreal, QC (2022)“Stone Tape: A haunting”, Multimedia installation, Jardins de Métis, Grand-Métis, QC (2021)“Wednesdays, Before Piano.”, Audio and video installation, FOFA Gallery Black Box, Montreal, QC (2019)“Wednesdays, Before Piano.”, Audio and video installation, Knot Project Space, Ottawa, ON (2018) SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS &nbsp; Ces vibrations qui nous traversent, “A Common Babble” - Sound installation, Curated by Camille Richard, L'OEil de Poisson, Quebec, QC (upcoming) If-if-if, “Opening of a Mouth” - Sound and photographic installation, Curated by Christopher Reeves, The Plan, Chicago, IL (2026) Groundfloor, “Here and There, Now and Then” - Multimedia installation, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2026) We can make any two stories touch, “Porous Bodies” - 16mm film and textile installation, The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, (2026)&nbsp; &nbsp; Manif d’art – La biennale de Québec, “The rain remembers its life as sea” - Sound installation, Curated by Ally Rosilio, MAC Baie-Saint-Paul, Baie-Saint-Paul, QC (2026) Reviving the Bookstore, “What Fills a Hole” - Photographic installation, Curated by Florent To Lay, SKOL, Montreal, QC (2026) Radio Elsewheres 0.3, (“The rain remembers its life as sea” - Soundwork), Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, ON (2025) Ces vibrations qui nous traversent, (”A Common Babble” -Audio installation), DRAC, Drummonville, QC (2025) d’une poignée de terre, in a handful of soil, (”prompts for attunement” - Sculpture, and “Stone Tape: A haunting” - Video), Adélard, Frelighsburg, QC (2025) Archive as Action, Archive as Discourse, (”miss nothing that flies or swims” - Video), SITE Gallery, Chicago, IL (2025) Regarde! Public art exhibition, (”The Density of Dust” - Video),&nbsp;Place de la création, Montreal, QC (2024) the traces that remain, (“miss nothing that swims or flies” - Video), MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montreal, QC (2024)&nbsp; &nbsp; my final prayer (“Stone Tape: A haunting” - Video installation), Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (2023)Tu m’enveloppes et je te contiens, (“The Density of Dust” - Video installation), Fonderie Darling, Montreal, QC (2022)JUSTICE (“This Country is Like a Dreamland” - Video installation in collaboration with Tam Khoa Vu and Yoon Rachel Nam), MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montreal, QC (2022)The World is My Home (“Remaking Edgware” - Video), Videofenster, Cologne, DE (2021)Rencontre avec l'autre soi-même (“Wednesdays, Before Piano.” - Video installation), EXPRESSION, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC (2020)Beyond the Veil (“For Nennen” - Textile), Mémoire de l'Avenir, Paris, FR (2019)Beyond the Veil (“For Nennen” - Textile), ARTLIFE for the World Gallery, Venice, ITA (2019)Ateliers de Bellechasse, (“Rencontre autour d'une table” - Collaborative installation), Montreal, QC (2019)Public Syntax (“Between Pieces and Past.” - Video installation in collaboration with Ivanie Aubin-Malo), Critical Distance, Toronto, ON (2019)OUTPUT: Annual Screening of SAW Video grantees (“Wednesdays, Before Piano.” - Video), The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON (2018)Decussation: Experiences Through Video, (“Grandma's Crystal Flowers” - Video installation), Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON (2017)Critical Ethics, (“Grandma's Crystal Flowers” - Video installation) Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON (2016)Chercher des personnes, des lieux ou d’autres choses, (“Toward Be/Longing” - Print media installation) Galerie B-312, Montreal, QC (2016)Unnoticed Art Festival, (“Sans y être” - Audio performance in collaboration with Roby Provost-Blanchard), Nijmegen, Netherlands (2016)Meet Me on the Tarmac, (“The Sharing Economy” - Video installation), Art Mûr, Montreal, QC (2016)THOUGHTBAGS (Or, Every Image is a Gushing Sack of Ideas), (“The Best We Have” - Audio installation), YTB Gallery, Toronto, ON (2015)Harbinger, (“Could We Talk?” - Site intervention), Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC (2015) RESIDENCIES AND ARTIST PROGRAMS Flaherty Film Seminar, Marlboro, Vermont (2026) TBA21 - OCEAN/UNI: Spaces of Collaboration (2025) China America Reel Ecology Program, Shanghai, CN (2025) Klondike Institute of Art and Culture - Dawson City International Short Film Festival Resident, Dawson City, YT (2024) Gare Matapedia Residency, Fonderie Darling et Vaste et Vague, Matapedia, QC (2023)Artist in Residence, Ada X, Montreal, QC (2022)Maison d'Ariane Research Creation Residency, Grand Métis, QC (2021)CRFC Audio Storyteller Resident, CJLO, Montreal, QC (2021)Hot Docs Podcast Career Accelerator (2021)Micro-Residency, facilitated by Victoria Stanton, Entrelacs, QC (2019)L'Externat, mentorship program with Les Territoires, Montreal, QC (2018-2019)Critical Ethics: Themed Commission Residency with Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON (2016)MoMA PS1 Free School, with Marina Abramovic, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and Steve Paxton, New York, NY (2012) PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS “Porous Bodies”, Artist talk at The Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (2026) “Installation Art”, Guest Lecturer for ART 390, Northwestern University, Evanston IL (2026) “What is an Artistic Process?”, Guest Lecturer for ART 372, Northwestern University, Evanston IL (2026) Fixer°4 Critique, Visiting Artist, Montreal, QC (2025) &nbsp; “A Common Babble”, Artist talk at Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON (2024) “A Common Babble”, Artist talk at Centre CLARK, Montreal, QC (2024) “Ice Watching”, Artist talk at Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, YT (2024) “Making in Place”, Guest lecturer at Yukon School of Visual Arts, Dawson City, YT (2024) “Professional Practices”, Guest lecturer for PHOTO 400, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (2024) “Community Care and Personal Sustainability Across the Arts”, Panel, Art Matters Festival, Montreal, QC (2023) “I was once sea floor: Artist talk moderated by Lindsay Leblanc”, Ada X, Montreal, QC (2023) “Granting Access: How the grant landscape is changing &amp; what you need to know”, Panel, POP Montreal, Montreal, QC (2022) “Arts &amp; Professional Practices”, Guest lecturer for ARTT 399 , Concordia University, Montreal, QC (2021) “Witnessing Change: Memory and changing landscapes” Artist Talk, Jardins de Métis, Grand-Métis, QC (2021) “Remaking Edgware”, Artist Talk and Video Screening, Museum of Jewish Montreal, Montreal, QC (2021) “In Between Remembering: Intergenerational Practice”, Artist Talk, Knot Project Space, Ottawa, ON (2018) “Queer Codes - Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and the Digital: Book Launch”, Panel Presentation, Montreal, QC (2016) “Toward Be/Longing: Book Launch”, Reading and Artist Talk, Galerie B-312, Montreal, QC (2016) WORKSHOPS “Making in Place: 16mm cameraless filmmaking with Lake Michigan”, Workshop lead with ACE Working Group, Northwestern University, Evanston IL (2026) “Preparing a portfolio”, Art Volt Collection, Montreal, QC (2025) “Crafting Artist Statements and Bios”, Art Volt Collection, Montreal, QC (2024)“Grant Writing: The basics and beyond”, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (2023) “Writing Artist Texts”, ARTCH, Montreal, QC (2023) “The Memories of Objects”, Storytelling and digital skills workshop, Centre d’aide des familles, Montreal, QC (2023) “Les souvenirs des objets”, atelier d'écriture créative et narration, Centr'Elles, comité d'action des femmes d'Avignon, Matapédia, QC (2023) “Funding your audio projects”, CJLO 1690 am, Montreal, QC (2023) “The Memories of Objects”, Storytelling and digital skills workshop, New Hope Seniors Centre, Montreal, QC (2023) “Grant Writing: The basics and beyond”, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (2022) “Art Volt Bootcamp: Preparing an artist statement and bio”, Art Volt, Montreal, QC (2022) “Grant Writing: The basics and beyond”, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (2021) GRANTS AND AWARDS Flaherty Film Fellow, Marlboro, Vermont (2026) Northwestern University, Paschke Award (2026) Northwestern University, Graduate Research Grant (2025) Conseil des arts de Montreal, Funding for Artist Collectives (2025) Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create - Artistic Creation (2025) Northwestern University, Conference Travel Grant (2025) Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create - Professional Development for Artists (2024)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Northwestern University Fellowship (2024-2026) &nbsp; LOJIQ - Bourse action culturelle et artistique (2024) The Grantham Foundation’s Grand Prize for Creation (2024) Canada Council for the Arts "Explore and Create - Research and Creation" (2023) Conseils des arts et lettres du Quebec “Creation” (2022) Canada Council for the Arts "Explore and Create - Research and Creation" (2022) Canada Council for the Arts "Explore and Create - Research and Creation" (2021) Museum of Jewish Montreal Microgrant for Creative and Cultural Exploration (2020) Canada Council for the Arts "Digital Originals" (2020) SAW Video Jumpstart Grant (2017-2018) Concordia Student Union Special Project Fund (2016) Concordia University Alumni Association (2016) FASA Special Project Grant (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) Concordia University Travel Grants to Undergraduate Students (2015) Concordia Council on Student Life Special Project Fund (2014) Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award (2014) OCADU BMO Financial Group Award, Incoming Student Community Service Award (2011) PUBLISHED TEXTS La Cigale, Issue no.4, “Every Pockmark is a Scar, Every Protrusion is a World yet Undone” (upcoming) ESPACE Art Actuel Magazine Issue no. 142 Prophecies, “prompts for attunement” (2026) Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, Generative Resilience Journal, “Ice Watching” (2024)Font Magazine, The Summer Issue 2023, “July, 1953.” (2023)Invisibilities No. 2, “Wednesdays, Before Piano.” (2019)Making Spaces: Exhibition Catalog, “What is Light?” (2017)Queer Codes - Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and the Digital: “Queering the Both of Us: The Subversive Potential of the Avatar” (2016)KAPSULA Magazine: “I Feel So Far Away From You, Could We Talk?” Vol. 2, Theme 3 (2015) EDUCATION Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - MFA Art, Theory, Practice (2024-2026) Concordia University, Montreal QC – BFA Intermedia, with distinction (2012-2017) https://naakitafk.com/contact Sun, 16 Dec 2018 16:40:34 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/contact naakita f.k. is an interdisciplinary artist based between Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland and Tio’Tia:Ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Through place-based and site-specific relations, their work considers extractivism, including both resource extraction and extractive ideologies that show up in the wake of violence to land and communities. Their video works are available for distribution through Vtape.If you would like to set up a studio visit (or just say hi), you can send them an email at naakitafkiss at gmail dot com. That’s all. Have a great day.&nbsp;︎ youtube︎ instagram︎ <img width="2075" height="3130" width_o="2075" height_o="3130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c659e7d684558f6d5473056f10293579034a6e31d160e793d85a987d5b61bcb4/naakita-fk_Photo-by-Hamza-Abouelouafaa.jpg" data-mid="225278815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c659e7d684558f6d5473056f10293579034a6e31d160e793d85a987d5b61bcb4/naakita-fk_Photo-by-Hamza-Abouelouafaa.jpg" /> Photo by Hamza Abouelouafaa, 2023. https://naakitafk.com/Porous-Bodies Fri, 15 May 2026 13:51:41 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/Porous-Bodies “Porous Bodies” is part of a long-term research project that considers the geological kinship and the slippery intimacies of capitalism through the entanglements of mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and mining in the Deep-Sea. This installation uses rock samples from each site to create a hand assembled, cameraless 16mm film with resulting optical sound. The installation asks: what does it mean to remove these samples from circulation? The act of crushing them is an act of transformation, releasing them from a world of speculative assessment. How does removing them from systems of valuation, pulverizing them, dispersing them and inviting them to be something else change our relationship to them? Something like a refusal, something like putting them to rest. <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/436dd66430b23eb77a02881a087e9d7995860b67f1c4886293064fc2cdda66bf/THESIS-INSTALL.PNG" data-mid="249380311" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/436dd66430b23eb77a02881a087e9d7995860b67f1c4886293064fc2cdda66bf/THESIS-INSTALL.PNG" /> <img width="3648" height="2432" width_o="3648" height_o="2432" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f524a6a19f6970e079b11eba0f4037ac17f27f236daa91544f6117cf6585fff3/A_PG2266.JPG" data-mid="249380314" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f524a6a19f6970e079b11eba0f4037ac17f27f236daa91544f6117cf6585fff3/A_PG2266.JPG" /> <img width="2736" height="1824" width_o="2736" height_o="1824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7da0abab6e59577ba046438734a320d3c18a3f858d6d55e4f6c6289e8815f48/A_PG2110.JPG" data-mid="249380316" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7da0abab6e59577ba046438734a320d3c18a3f858d6d55e4f6c6289e8815f48/A_PG2110.JPG" /> <img width="2736" height="1824" width_o="2736" height_o="1824" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/447ea855a6d0eb56b99f2f2a635d97f4627bf9feebda30518cd4bf7fc2ece345/A_PG2115.JPG" data-mid="249380315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/447ea855a6d0eb56b99f2f2a635d97f4627bf9feebda30518cd4bf7fc2ece345/A_PG2115.JPG" /> https://naakitafk.com/What-Fills-a-Hole-1 Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:59:17 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/What-Fills-a-Hole-1 Considering soil as a witness, “What Fills a Hole?” turns to the ground to generate images from what a place might remember. The project is rooted in the history of L’Androgyne Bookstore, one of Montreal’s earliest mixed-gender and mixed-sexuality spaces, active from 1973 to 2002. Before becoming a fixed location, L’Androgyne existed as a mobile idea, relocating five times alongside urban change and the migration of queer life across the city. These pasts surface through dirt collected outside the bookstore’s five former addresses on Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Crescent Street, and Atateken Street. Gathered from planters and cracks in the pavement, the material is soiled, contaminated, and embedded with debris, carrying both visible and invisible traces of the relational and affective worlds the site once supported. Processed through photographic methods and integrated into an installation combining image, text, textile, and light, the ground becomes a collaborator in the retelling of what occurred—here, there, and elsewhere. The work asks how place might act as an agentic voice in the transmission of memory, and how new worlds can emerge from the remnants of those that came before. <img width="5503" height="3668" width_o="5503" height_o="3668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ebc126cc90c6f8ed2c2257e464dd9b888de85e23566e9c2b70fa45893aefd13/IMG_4983.jpg" data-mid="247154257" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ebc126cc90c6f8ed2c2257e464dd9b888de85e23566e9c2b70fa45893aefd13/IMG_4983.jpg" /> <img width="2191" height="2744" width_o="2191" height_o="2744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c90fb4f559502fb9de510fed9e0268ead94a81a1b41ed6f3171e423e2ad9665c/fk_naakita_WhatFillsAHole_4.jpg" data-mid="247154269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c90fb4f559502fb9de510fed9e0268ead94a81a1b41ed6f3171e423e2ad9665c/fk_naakita_WhatFillsAHole_4.jpg" /> <img width="5425" height="3617" width_o="5425" height_o="3617" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bfde5a3256c5a3bcdc58dcd8bf7bf91221f76f6be4086043c87e98ac62d60d1/IMG_4986.jpg" data-mid="247154256" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bfde5a3256c5a3bcdc58dcd8bf7bf91221f76f6be4086043c87e98ac62d60d1/IMG_4986.jpg" /> <img width="2186" height="3210" width_o="2186" height_o="3210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d5da0c4d65cc410563c2f16e49f94938c04b26c640902cd9fc40df8688605cb/fk_naakita_WhatFillsAHole_3.jpg" data-mid="247154270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d5da0c4d65cc410563c2f16e49f94938c04b26c640902cd9fc40df8688605cb/fk_naakita_WhatFillsAHole_3.jpg" /> <img width="3675" height="5512" width_o="3675" height_o="5512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fbd289c40784eacf86f39b54d1cf4b396bb08397a895cc45cfebf96df161650/IMG_5011.jpg" data-mid="247154253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fbd289c40784eacf86f39b54d1cf4b396bb08397a895cc45cfebf96df161650/IMG_5011.jpg" /> <img width="8636" height="14995" width_o="8636" height_o="14995" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68fb2912882288221771a405bbd3a0e0b82630ec5537e6a30112e8e5902fab0c/fk_naakita_WhatFillsAHole_5.jpg" data-mid="247154275" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68fb2912882288221771a405bbd3a0e0b82630ec5537e6a30112e8e5902fab0c/fk_naakita_WhatFillsAHole_5.jpg" /> <img width="2479" height="3719" width_o="2479" height_o="3719" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf551bb6a3c5ca1eb806afb1e7aaf51d0a2ba91717f4eb8d25ff3436d0a8ee56/IMG_4988.jpg" data-mid="247154255" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf551bb6a3c5ca1eb806afb1e7aaf51d0a2ba91717f4eb8d25ff3436d0a8ee56/IMG_4988.jpg" /> <img width="5457" height="3638" width_o="5457" height_o="3638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1cd5576186573a4b83d832cd5d19a7e61ef043fd82decc78736c6498a1bf7540/IMG_4993.jpg" data-mid="247154254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1cd5576186573a4b83d832cd5d19a7e61ef043fd82decc78736c6498a1bf7540/IMG_4993.jpg" /> <img width="2754" height="2496" width_o="2754" height_o="2496" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9872ad72ef2262ab2af5f2cb94c8adbdca098cac75dc31e2fbd748fa2dde124f/fk_naakita_WhatFillsAHole_2.jpg" data-mid="247154272" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9872ad72ef2262ab2af5f2cb94c8adbdca098cac75dc31e2fbd748fa2dde124f/fk_naakita_WhatFillsAHole_2.jpg" /> Photos by Amed Aroche. This works was made possible with the support of Conseil des arts de Montréal. https://naakitafk.com/The-world-is-its-memory Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:13:06 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/The-world-is-its-memory An elegy for the last Yangtze giant soft shell turtle and the river delta it once called home. "The World is its Memory" charts the path of the Yangtze giant soft shell turtle from its first known incarnations to the Suzhou Zoo where the last of the species remains in conservation. Through poetic interpretations of scientific field methods and creation stories, this experimental documentary reflects on species loss in the anthropocene and the damage done by capitalism's infinite growth model. “The World is its Memory” was made in collaboration with Xuancheng Chen and Xu Yan. <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58fe7f216a7da377632670c5c381008e301943f662319eba349d8d3272741fb5/Still-10.png" data-mid="243953566" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58fe7f216a7da377632670c5c381008e301943f662319eba349d8d3272741fb5/Still-10.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b789eb42e07c077a52cc042e3a2cd65964f6053875fa11a2a0996d2c1e35cb45/Still-1.png" data-mid="243953567" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b789eb42e07c077a52cc042e3a2cd65964f6053875fa11a2a0996d2c1e35cb45/Still-1.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b94873b63622081d7f7e4219c4b6da38965c05c95126c1504cfb21b3f95120d8/Still-2.png" data-mid="243953572" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b94873b63622081d7f7e4219c4b6da38965c05c95126c1504cfb21b3f95120d8/Still-2.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/655356b0c3214c825d72a1e7b7ca6f044588323fab8ebcf2342547631f8b5950/Still-4.png" data-mid="243953577" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/655356b0c3214c825d72a1e7b7ca6f044588323fab8ebcf2342547631f8b5950/Still-4.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8b87eb44c80862da2288d1cb1f9078c8b6907e854d7fa2bd97bdadc2192df3c/Still-5.png" data-mid="243953582" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8b87eb44c80862da2288d1cb1f9078c8b6907e854d7fa2bd97bdadc2192df3c/Still-5.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a13261f6d8b2d68f4927207b08eb435065bdf66c241cb356790bb36dc21b4cab/Still-7.png" data-mid="243953588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a13261f6d8b2d68f4927207b08eb435065bdf66c241cb356790bb36dc21b4cab/Still-7.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3847c14db2b083de63fb9f3e7b78754c272260adfcc06f02e60a220aa375287/Still-8.png" data-mid="243953595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3847c14db2b083de63fb9f3e7b78754c272260adfcc06f02e60a220aa375287/Still-8.png" /> This film was made possible by the generous support of the Cyrus Tang Foundation with additional funding from The School of Communication and the Department of Radio, TV, and Film (Northwestern University, USA) and The College of Art and Media (Tongji University, China). https://naakitafk.com/To-meet-your-resting-place Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:45:16 +0000 naakita f.k. https://naakitafk.com/To-meet-your-resting-place Extractive projects can be used to jump across place and time, demonstrating the ways that systems of violence, like soil and rock, layer upon each other.This installation evolves from a larger research project examining the entangled histories of the Shinkolobwe uranium mine in Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Illinois’s Red Gate Woods, home to the Manhattan Project’s now disappeared Site A. The ground of the former is buried in the latter. “To meet your resting place” positions soil as witness and memory keeper, while offering itself as a reparative gesture to reunite the extracted materials with their site of origin. <img width="6092" height="4061" width_o="6092" height_o="4061" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f2916754dfcd0712f9d802d392b3fcc8a396cd38abfb807477815c6686601e8/4E5A7639.JPG" data-mid="234563524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f2916754dfcd0712f9d802d392b3fcc8a396cd38abfb807477815c6686601e8/4E5A7639.JPG" /> <img width="5962" height="3974" width_o="5962" height_o="3974" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0243825f41cc483eb5787a27b70001684fc2704451583e2cc92bbc53860e56e/4E5A7294.JPG" data-mid="234563639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0243825f41cc483eb5787a27b70001684fc2704451583e2cc92bbc53860e56e/4E5A7294.JPG" /> <img width="5906" height="3937" width_o="5906" height_o="3937" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14087a2a8f4b1f6e03aae45733591165cd0790132e44f63a6a36dbfdb518cf98/4E5A7327.JPG" data-mid="234563605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14087a2a8f4b1f6e03aae45733591165cd0790132e44f63a6a36dbfdb518cf98/4E5A7327.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b245b34f1fe305830946ba118649ae187ee761dc12a741ff1303203bb9aec8d/4E5A7412.JPG" data-mid="234563607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b245b34f1fe305830946ba118649ae187ee761dc12a741ff1303203bb9aec8d/4E5A7412.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cebdfbeaa91e22658b108283b8af0960810d8f5d43649176e5a741be4ca93bc1/4E5A7436.JPG" data-mid="234563613" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cebdfbeaa91e22658b108283b8af0960810d8f5d43649176e5a741be4ca93bc1/4E5A7436.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2753a805e5a56683f9507fe3d7d1f84a54df24635b5bfde2b484b8c820900e3/4E5A7445.JPG" data-mid="234563596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2753a805e5a56683f9507fe3d7d1f84a54df24635b5bfde2b484b8c820900e3/4E5A7445.JPG" /> Lightbox with CNC engraving, inkjet print of a large format photograph, digital scan and optical sound from contact print of dirt collected at Red Gate Woods, IL on 16mm leader, scent of fresh dirt