Katy Slany’s art practice explores the somatic experience of existing at the borderlands of society, trauma, illness and systemic oppression. Using textiles, performance, ritual, and photography, Katy explores how unlearning can liberate our bodies and lives, reconnecting us to the land and challenging the disembodiment inherent in modern society. Rooted in the material and ephemeral, Katy seeks to examine embodiment as a tool of transformation under late-stage capitalism and the ongoing project of colonialism. A graduate of SFU’s School of Contemporary Arts on the Unceded and stolen land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, Katy believes that our individual and collective transformation hinges on the power of imagination, where creativity and art-making provide us access to new realms of possibility.

 

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