User:DemianPetryshyn

From CWC/Corus

Originally from Edmonton Alberta, Demian Petryshyn moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to study at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. After working in the artist-run centre community as an artist, volunteer, staff-person, and advocate, he recently graduated from the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of Western Ontario.

Through his artistic practice, Demian Petryshyn focuses on those devalued aspects of popular culture, which are generally consumed by young men including video games, model kits, junk food and sci-fi movies. He uses his work to engender various questions about this activity: How is the body functioning in these situations? How is gendered identity being constructed in these contexts? How do the activities manifest social spaces? What are the specificities of the "discourses" associated with these subjects? Rooted in the tradition of interdisciplinary and conceptual-based practices, his current and recent work is characterized both by the sincerity of his involvement in each activity and the humour engendered by their failures.