Bio
Edie is an artist, composer, and researcher working primarily within sound and sculpture. Their research falls broadly within aesthetics, ethics, literature, and phenomenology. They are interested in the temporary architectures (like exhibition sites), problems of empathy, privacy/oblivion, attention, and thinking through sound and space in relationship to ethics and ontology. Their practice is rooted in noticing/listening, ecologies, improvisation, granulation, critical approaches to field recording, and material practice. Their artwork uses materials as a dense and obscured poetics about the traces and gestures of embodied time. They are fascinated by labyrinths, translation, states of near-dreaming, desire paths, recursion/repetition, and duration.
Edie is from Treaties 6, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. They are currently based on unceded lekwungen Traditional Territory – also known as Victoria, BC, where they recently completed their MFA in Digital Media at the University of Victoria. They previously studied at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, receiving a BA in Philosophy (ethics - honours) and a BFA in Visual Art – Printmaking (with distinction).
Edie performs as a solo artist under the name Errata, and they are 1/3 of the experimental sound trio Bell Dreams - playing the flute, piccolo, clarinet, found objects, electronics, and vocals. They are also a part of the ⚧ Ensemble guided and organized by composer, Megan Harton. In addition, they are a prior member of the Saskatoon Experimental Music Ensemble – which focuses on shared composition, collaboration, and improvisation. They are a member of the Unheard Sound Collective which runs the bi-annual SoundsLike festival - an experimental sound series in Saskatoon, and they co-curate the annual Shapes and Sounds concert with David Gifford.
Rubinoff Tour; 2025
Video: Nick Patterson
Sound: Edie Skeard
Rubinoff Sculpture Park – Hornby, BC
Performance Documentation Sound of The Sun iii
Unit/Pitt Gallery – Vancouver, BC
September, 2024
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Recent sound-based compositions + performances