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Fall Fell Felt begins from an examination of “fail” videos, a popular genre where physical blunders and bloopers are caught on camera and disseminated online. Focusing on an extremely prevalent sub-genre, so-called “girl fails,” this project tests the ability of these images to elicit empathy, while considering the ways that women’s bodies have been used throughout the history of moving images to provoke physical and visceral responses from viewers.

Anna Hawkins is an American artist based in Canada. She works primarily with video and is concerned with the ways that images, gestures and information are transmitted, transformed and experienced online. She has recently exhibited solo projects at Centre Clark (Montreal, CA, 2016), Eastern Edge Gallery (St. John’s, CA, 2016), Untitled Art Society (Calgary, CA, 2018), and The Contemporary Art Museum of the Laurentians (St-Jérôme, CA 2020). Her works have been shown and screened internationally at the UCLA New Wight Biennial (Los Angeles, USA), the WRO Media Art Biennale (Wrocaw, PL), Galerie Sturm (Nürnberg, DE) and LUX (London, UK).