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Imogen Clendinning (@imgoenggrace) is a settler video artist and youth facilitator who hails from the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomie, what is now referred to, in a colonial context, as Windsor, ON. Clendinning identifies as a cisgender femme maker whose found-footage videos use controversial imagery and traditional medium in order to expose flaw and humour in dated cult films. Her research uses sexploitation films and antiquated technologies to investigate how media images can shape identities and an individual relationship to the lived world. Clendinning’s video-works incorporate themes such as sexuality, violence, femininity, and the inherent anti-capitalism of degraded images.

Clendinning completed an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Windsor. Within the year Clendinning participated in the University of Windsor’s Noiseborder festival, and worked collaboratively with the IN/TERMINUS Research Group. Clendinning is currently the Programming Coordinator at Artcite Inc., an artist-run centre focused on community building and bringing contemporary arts to the Windsor-Essex region. She has also worked with several local galleries in North Bay, Ontario including the WKP Kennedy Gallery and the White Water, and has just recently been organizing performance and guerrilla art in participation with the Black Water Art Collective. Clendinning has recently been influenced by tattoo culture, making works that seek to blur the lines between what is considered ‘commercial’ and ‘fine’ arts.