Michelle Helene Mackenzie
Artist in Residence July 2020
Michelle Helene Mackenzie is a musician and multimedia artist who works primarily with sound, video and text. She uses modular synthesizers, found sound, field recordings, digital processing, electro-acoustic instruments, video, text, and archival research to explore sonic gesture, modes of perception, ecological consciousness, and deep listening.
This has culminated in site-specific sound installations, video, sound works, performances, and writing. Mackenzie holds a BA from Simon Fraser University, and spent five years pursuing a PhD in Literature from Duke University, where she became interested in literatures of necrophiliac-agonies, the possibilities of sounding the unheard hills of banshee-perturbations, and the violence and cultural amnesia that devours female genius.