Ryat Yezbick is a visual artist who uses their training in cultural anthropology to inform the issues they tackle as a maker. Their curiosity about group identity under late-capitalism has taken them around the globe, researching the impacts of digital surveillance technology on the aspirational behaviors of the participants in their films and performances. Yezbick figures their body and experience centrally in their work, using encounters with collaborators and participants to explore possibilities for intimacy and belonging under late-capitalism.
They work in a variety of mediums – notably live performance, experimental documentary filmmaking, and installation – that have garnered support from audiences and curators internationally. They are a published author and recent co-recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Grant. Most recently, they were commissioned to create new performance works for Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, and The Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. They have moderated panels with esteemed pioneers in art and technology, such as Scott Snibbe and Suzanne Anker, and taught at numerous colleges and universities. Yezbick’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Melbourne, and Glasgow, and in notable group exhibitions and performances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, REDCAT, Materials & Applications, The Akademie Schloss Solitude, The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Glasgow International 2018, The Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity and Gertrude Contemporary. |
Images of work (left to right):
1. And Laid Him On The Green, live performance with 4 vocalists, 3-channel video installation, slide whistles, dictaphone; Year: 2019; Photo credit: Keelan O’Hehir
2. And Laid Him On The Green, idem
3. Potentially Dangerous Contraptions, live performance, woven headtrap, medieval organ, ratchet and straps, wooden branches, marbles, hook and loop suits, booklet; Year: 2018; Photo credit: Hagen Betzwieser
4. Potentially Dangerous Contraptions, idem
5. Potentially Dangerous Contraptions, idem
6. Hook and Loop, live performance, hook and loop suits and masks; Year: 2016; Photo Credit: Cedric Tai
1. And Laid Him On The Green, live performance with 4 vocalists, 3-channel video installation, slide whistles, dictaphone; Year: 2019; Photo credit: Keelan O’Hehir
2. And Laid Him On The Green, idem
3. Potentially Dangerous Contraptions, live performance, woven headtrap, medieval organ, ratchet and straps, wooden branches, marbles, hook and loop suits, booklet; Year: 2018; Photo credit: Hagen Betzwieser
4. Potentially Dangerous Contraptions, idem
5. Potentially Dangerous Contraptions, idem
6. Hook and Loop, live performance, hook and loop suits and masks; Year: 2016; Photo Credit: Cedric Tai
Website: https://rachelyezbick.com/