Nelson Henricks

Visual Arts

Nelson Henricks brings his musings to the medium of experimental video. In the six-minute piece, Satellite, Henricks juxtaposes images derived from old educational films with absurd, aphoristic slogans. Presented in 2004 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and later in Calgary and Ottawa, it comments on our need to make sense of everything, at any cost. In 2000, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented his work as part of the Video Viewpoints series. With Steve Reinke, Henricks co-edited an anthology of artist’s video scripts entitled By the Skin of Their Tongues. He has won the Telefilm Canada Prize at Toronto’s Images Festival and been the recipient of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art. He attended the Alberta College of Art and moved to Montreal in 1991, where he received a BFA from Concordia University and where he now teaches. (PF)