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Since 1997, Jeremy Mimnagh has performed as a dj / visual and sound artist, and worked as a photo-based artist.

Over the past three years Jeremy has collaborated with artists from different disciplines, bringing to live performance different combinations of sound and visual art. Among his creative collaborators are
choreographers D.A .Hoskins, Heidi Strauss and Justine Chambers, theatre artist Kevin-Rees Cummings, composer John Mark Sherlock, and arts organizations: Outpost42, TILT sound+motion and Four Chambers dance projects.

My art practice combines various elements of interactivity, performance, intervention, installation, animation and video to investigate social spaces, implicating the viewer/participant in the processes that make events meaningful to destabilize ideas of high culture for a politically/socially engaged content. Through institutional critique and a self-reflexive criticality in relation to my own practice, my projects aim to disrupt concepts of normalcy and function as catalysts for dialogue.

MAI's Mission Statement:
MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) is a multidisciplinary promoter of professional contemporary artists. As the only venue in Montreal with an intercultural mandate, MAI presents current works that have culturally diverse origins and inspirations and are intriguing for the general public.

I make performance, social practice, event-based, theatre, novels, essays etc. Some projects include: Haircuts by Children, Ballroom Dancing, Beachballs41+all, Slow Dance with Teacher and A Suicide-Site Guide to the City.

Have presented in Performa(NYC), TBA(Portland), Fierce!(Birmingham, UK), PuSh(vancouver), Visualeyz(edmonton),High Performance Rodeo(Calagary), Open Engagement(Regina). My book Social Acupuncture, advancing an aesthetic of social engagement was published by Coach House Books in 2006.

My artistic research takes on different forms, such as video art, installation, performance, photography, drawing, and writing. My work springs from a desire to link formalism and performative process, as well as to create complex and poetic visual situations out of a handful of elements. In them, the body is alternately manipulating and manipulated, object and instrument, inert and active, motor and motif. Whatever the medium used, each gesture is a way to articulate thought, to take position physically and poetically with respect to a wide spectrum of concerns.