Meghan Moe BeitiksConcordia University · Faculty of Fine Arts
Meghan Moe Beitiks
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Introduction
Meghan Moe Beitiks currently works at Concordia University. She does research in Visual Arts and Performing Arts.
Skills and Expertise
Additional affiliations
August 2019 - July 2022
August 2016 - June 2019
June 2014 - June 2014
Education
August 2011 - June 2013
August 1997 - June 2001
Publications
Publications (12)
'Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience' is a creative exploration of observation and entanglement as tools for negotiating pain. Research on ecology, restoration, and psychology creates a series of videos, images, and performances. How do personal networks of resilience overcome systems of pain, both in human perspectives, and in ecologies? The pr...
Object-Oriented Ontology presents stark implications for the process of the artist. If all matter is alive, then all things are co-performers, and all art becomes performance. How does one work with the presence of the non-human, and what are the ethical implications of attempting to attune to its needs? Beginning with the object of a table, and co...
A Lab for Apologies and Forgiveness documents a multifaceted artwork inspired by the bacteria Geobacter sulfurreducens, which reduces radioactive uranium to a non-water-soluble isotope. When I first heard about the bacteria, it opened up an avenue of hope in me. It engages with, and limits, a substance that is otherwise toxic for 10,000 years, and...
Artist Meghan Moe Beitiks considers her first-person perspective of entanglements of light and air during the 2020‐21 pandemic from her position in academia and Florida.
Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Nebraska) is a performance for camera. Chapters of the work have developed in Omaha, Nebraska, upstate New York, Galesburg, Illinois and Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Nebraska) is the first chapter, originally performed live at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Within the project, pain is understood as trauma,...
Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Moment Two) is a transcript of a video, a chapter in an interdisciplinary research project. Artist Meghan Moe Beitiks interviewed people with personal or professional experience of recovery, combining their voices into scores for performances, videos, and installations. Stigma and prejudice emerge as barriers...
A Lab for Apologies and Forgiveness v.6 is the experience of flipping through an artist's lab book. Detailing the development and creation of a performance work that hinges on the operation of an apparatus for the cultivation of anaerobic bacteria, Meghan Moe Beitiks notes her research, correspondence and personal anxieties. As we read, an unexpect...
