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IMOGEN CLENDINNING

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Still image from OPEN ACTION DOT COM, Imogen Clendinning, 2020.
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Videoelsewhere, Imogen Clendinning, 2018.
Imogen Clendinning (she/her/they/them) is a settler video artist who currently resides as an uninvited guest in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Attawandaron, and Wendat peoples, known in a colonial context, as London, Ontario. Clendinning hails from The North (Nipissing Region/North Bay, ON), where she developed her creative language and acted as a community builder and volunteer coordinator at The White Water Gallery. Most recently, Clendinning occupied the role of Programming Coordinator at Artcite Inc. (Waawiiyaatanong/Windsor, ON), where they focused on the cultivation of emerging artist practices through arts advocacy and contemporary programming. She is most proud of her work in establishing the Waawiiyaatanong BIPOC Artist-in-Residence program, for the development of works by emerging artists of colour in the Windsor-Essex region, which will celebrate its third year in 2022. In January of 2021, Clendinning curated the online exhibition End of Daze, featuring the works of Kiera Boult, Samantha Noseworthy and Rihkee Strapp. The exhibition centred around the use of Y2K aesthetics and nostalgia as a means of engaging in critical discussions about white supremacy, decolonization, race and feminism.

​In her artistic practice, Clendinning often considers how femininity is shaped by popular cinema, using VHS tapes to de-construct tropes and signifiers used in cult film. Her research uses sexploitation films and antiquated technologies to investigate how media images can shape identities and inform our individualized relationships to the lived world. Clendinning’s video-works incorporate themes such as sexuality, violence and the inherent anti-capitalism of degraded images. In 2019, Clendinning completed an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Windsor. Clendinning has screened their found footage works through the White Water Gallery (North Bay, ON), Pleasuredome (Tkaronto) and the Forest City Film Festival (London, ON). Clendinning is currently pursuing an MA in Art History and Curatorial Study at Western University, with a focus on net-based practice and digital archives.
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Videoelsewhere, Imogen Clendinning, 2018.


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou Smoke, and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jessica Irene Joyce, Ira Kazi, 
Shelley Kopp, Jenna Rose Sands, Mireya Seymour, Venus Tsao, Diana Tamblyn, and Michelle Wilson. 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.

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