http://www.alexismitchell.com/wherethetrees daily 0.75 2016-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1441940143778-XHKU7G2URF7NFE5V7ULW/1857_Detail.jpg Where the Trees Stood in Water (2013) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1466545517076-LLMNV2IYU5Q5GSOVKUWN/Title_FullFrame.jpg Where the Trees Stood in Water (2013) - Where the Trees Stood in Water (2013) 5 Hand-Processed Cyanotype Prints + Text https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1462984649095-5SH020M84NA6DXXYGJPP/1857_FullFrame.jpg Where the Trees Stood in Water (2013) Where the Trees Stood in Water is site-specific installation of 5 blueprints responding to the history of Toronto’s Entertainment district. The project traces the changes that have occurred in this specific neighbourhood since colonial rule. Each blueprint is accompanied by a historical document pertaining to a character from that time period in order to playfully examine the processes of colonization, industrialization and the shifts of transient bodies affected by it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1449685769360-VT3SZ8LSITKONA3WAZ08/Campbell+House.jpg Where the Trees Stood in Water (2013) Installation view from Campbell House exhibit 'Memories of the Future'. Image by Toni Hafkenscheid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1449685837046-14YG0F2D1GTY4GLJ7S1V/1857_Detail.jpg Where the Trees Stood in Water (2013) - 1857 (detail) This project is a Bambitchell collaboration and has been displayed at the Soho Lobby Gallery, The Gladstone Hotel and the Campbell House in Toronto, Canada. http://www.alexismitchell.com/thebreak daily 0.75 2016-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1462970716229-OQX76BMC48MH7U2BUWRH/The+Break_Still_03.jpg The Break (2013) - The Break (2013) Experimental Documentary, 14 mins RECEIVES SPECIAL JURY CITATION FROM CANADIAN JURY AT INSIDE OUT FILM FESTIVAL: "Alexis Mitchell’s THE BREAK, brilliantly utilizes its format to enhance its engaging story" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1462984818141-IIU6ITJ6WD0OB4LD1I6M/The+Break_Still_02.jpg The Break (2013) In his book “The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire,” Wayne Koestenbaum examines voice as a site of transgression and inherent queerness. He looks to physicality, sound and ideology to expose the different ways in which the voice acts as a marker of identity, both in building a solid gendered identity as well as having the possibility to completely dismantle notions of gender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1462970762269-V1CXP8119ME7Q5FYMHE6/The+Break_Still_01.jpg The Break (2013) He speaks about voice as a “voyage…traveling out from hiddenness into the world” (Koestenbaum, 155) and examines how the break in the singing voice from chest to head is inherently gendered – moving from male to female as it breaks. The Break, an experimental, performative documentary focuses on this idea of the "break" to explore the relationship between gender and the singing voice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1409442338190-62C5KFEZNEEMZE5SXDGC/The+Break_Still_03.jpg The Break (2013) http://www.alexismitchell.com/bordersounds daily 0.75 2016-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1449686592850-DVA0R9UXA36RB8KAQ0MA/border+sounds_03.JPG Border Sounds (2011) - Border Sounds (2011-2015) Participatory Sound Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1409177436767-ZAITA9HEKDAZTZC6VWY5/border+sounds_03.JPG Border Sounds (2011) - Border Sounds (2011) Participatory Sound & Video Installation Premiered at Nuit Blanche Toronto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1449686592850-DVA0R9UXA36RB8KAQ0MA/border+sounds_03.JPG Border Sounds (2011) - Border Sounds (2011-2015) Participatory Sound Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1462984969033-904I0P91EV84PFPIF0H5/border+sounds_02.jpg Border Sounds (2011) Border Sounds is a video, performance and sound installation in the form of a silent disco. The work examines notions of territory in relation to nation-states and diasporic experiences. Musical tracks with lyrics referencing the text inside passports are employed to heighten and accentuate the ever-changing boundaries that we navigate daily. These tracks are experienced privately via headphones and are accompanied by video projections emulating an atmosphere similar to a club or disco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1449686673259-TFJ6E9VIQJATSR64CJDU/A8431507.jpg Border Sounds (2011) - Documentation of installation from Art Gallery of Windsor, 2015 Technical and Sound Design by Heather Kirby Listen to the 5 tracks here View video documentation from Nuit Blanche 2011 here http://www.alexismitchell.com/silentcitizen daily 0.75 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1486402216040-N311ASC0A9CQ3ZYG1LEV/Silentcitizen_silence.jpg Silent Citizen (2014) - Silent Citizen (2014) Participatory Sound & Video Installation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1486402216040-N311ASC0A9CQ3ZYG1LEV/Silentcitizen_silence.jpg Silent Citizen (2014) - Silent Citizen (2014) Participatory Sound & Video Installation https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/53fe4920e4b08eb2b2f6bba5/53fe4950e4b0408d593f17fa/1486401776130/ Silent Citizen (2014) - Silent Citizen (2014) Participatory Sound & Video Installation Installation view for Images Festival, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1466545084579-UJETZ75XWKG8WPHZEH96/Silent+Citizen_installroom.jpg Silent Citizen (2014) One of the crucial steps in the Canadian immigration process is an English Language test, which all applicants (regardless of their country of origin or first language) must write. The use of the English language to deter access to immigration based on the spoken word remains one of the ways that language continues to be used to maintain a degree of racism within Canadian bureaucracy and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1462969936909-LNI4UKB29B1HWIFEWEQ1/silentcitizen_participant_test.jpg Silent Citizen (2014) In this installation Bambitchell invites viewers to playfully participate by taking the language test themselves - in the performative style of karaoke. In doing so they are required to follow a set of rigid rules and cues that tell them when to speak and when they must remain silent. The results of the tests are recorded, stored and played back throughout the course of the exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1466545181073-E433QWIIEJ0JJWZ3XHZT/silentcitizen_sign_wide.jpg Silent Citizen (2014) As more people speak into the microphone, and a variety of different voices are archived, the sound of “proper” Canadian speech is rendered indiscernible. In this way Silent Citizen reveals the impossibility of the testing process to create a homogenized national subject, rather demonstrating its existence as an arbitrary remnant of a colonial fabric that still needs to be unraveled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1466545270883-8JWSW557IRHVLYFCQFF8/silentcitizen_mic.jpg Silent Citizen (2014) Technical and sound design by Heather Kirby Premiered at the Images Festival, Toronto, April 2014 and received the Steamwhistle Homebrew Award This project is a Bambitchell collaboration. To view video documentation click here Text by Aditi Ohri for the installation at Articule Gallery http://www.alexismitchell.com/empiresymbol daily 0.75 2016-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1425767572300-B96AP8NHFS5SWKG635L5/Empire+Symbol.jpg Empire Symbol, Or A Man and his Mule (2015) - Empire Symbol, Or A Man and his Mule (2015) Video, 17 mins. A Bambitchell collaboration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1443222663710-YFQ7GJU4CHEJQVMTMBCE/Empire+Symbol.jpg Empire Symbol, Or A Man and his Mule (2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1443222267289-X7CW74GGBTYXD3QOTTA6/EmpireSymbol_01.jpg Empire Symbol, Or A Man and his Mule (2015) - Installation view at Gallery44 Empire Symbol, Or A Man and his Mule, traces the journey of a Canadian veterinarian who was responsible for transporting mules from New York to Karachi, India during WWII. Employing his diary entries, Bambitchell unearth both the psychic life of The Vet, as well the histories of Canadian Militarism that are embedded within mundane processes of global trade and transport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1443222357679-VTO92QESUYVLE4MLQG0S/EmpireSymbol_03.jpg Empire Symbol, Or A Man and his Mule (2015) "As the title of this work would suggest, there is more to the man and his mule than a man and his mule, literally speaking. But it takes a reading and a looking capable of seeing what lies under the surface. Indeed, if we scratch the surface of the diary, as Bambitchell have, violence is being mapped in the everydayness of war and in the quotidian realties of life under imperialism. The mule, taken for granted and discarded by power as a figure that might actually reveal its workings, exposes empire in an aesthetic practice that is interested in unearthing and tracing covert knowledge". Dr. Dina Georgis, Professor in Women and Gender Studies at The University of Toronto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1464209098409-RTWEM2YGFUHV9TSCBBPB/DonkeyHands_Bambitchell.jpg Empire Symbol, Or A Man and his Mule (2015) This project was commissioned by the Department of Global Studies and the Centre for Memory and Testimony Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Canadian Network for Psychoanalysis. Interview with Leila Timmins, Head of Exhibitions, Gallery44. Installation view at Gallery44. Photos by Toni Hafkensheild. For more documentation from this show visit bambitchell.com   http://www.alexismitchell.com/gabeyandmike daily 0.75 2018-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1464208390818-A9ZLYHFKVHOD9I2QF96V/Screen+Shot+2016-05-25+at+10.29.40+PM.png Gabey and Mike (2016) - Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story (2016) Video, 20 mins. Collaboration with Stephanie Markowitz Watch the trailer! CBC Arts covers Gabey and Mike Interview with writer Katherine Brewer-Ball and online link to the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1496826656529-VP2S46CRLVCF06ELB8DR/GM_Poster_wlaurels3.jpg Gabey and Mike (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1464713089889-R4XVANK0M7S57O27GQST/Gabey+and+Mike_03.jpg Gabey and Mike (2016) Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story takes its name from a song by Mermaid Café - a folk band comprised of Andi D., Joe A. Rider and Merrill Nisker (now known as ‘Peaches’) that gained popularity at Canadian Jewish summer camps in the early 90s. Gabey and Mike uses the tropes of the summer camp movie genre alongside references from iconic queer films in order to grasp the significance of this band within the peculiar space of the Jewish summer camp. Video Still, courtesy of Ava Berkofsky, DP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1449685052699-BXR4ZM1AHJ2NW0JYUAT0/not+usingGabey+and+Mike+Braiding.jpg Gabey and Mike (2016) http://www.alexismitchell.com/the-people-v-the-cock-of-basel-2017 daily 0.75 2017-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1492788751047-M9JYTYSGQBTAEZ6DMWPY/Screen+Shot+2017-01-17+at+8.24.23+PM.png The People v. The Cock of Basel (2017) - The People v. The Cock of Basel (2017) Video-Performance A Bambitchell project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1492788751047-M9JYTYSGQBTAEZ6DMWPY/Screen+Shot+2017-01-17+at+8.24.23+PM.png The People v. The Cock of Basel (2017) - The People v. The Cock of Basel (2017) Video-Performance A Bambitchell project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1492788716640-JK4G2ZEJD9ND2GC7VMRL/DSN_7206.jpg The People v. The Cock of Basel (2017) The Court of General Sessions of the Peace presents the evidence in support of the arguments relied upon in its case against the Cock of Basel. The purpose of this brief is to provide the court with the scope of the Cock’s conspiracy to cavort with the Devil, and thus committing crimes of sexuality. The people ask that the Cock be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Basel, March 23, 1474 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1492789008831-GI3K881I5OLNCY741WBN/DSN_7208.jpg The People v. The Cock of Basel (2017) Documentation of Rhubarb Festival performance by Greg Wong. http://www.alexismitchell.com/special-works-school-2018 daily 0.75 2019-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1538755403952-LRU7JGFJCBQ3LYL8KQ4E/SWS_Laurels.jpg Special Works School (2018) - Special Works School (2018) Video and Sculptural Installation Recent Screenings and Exhibitions: Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, November 2018 BFI London Film Festival, Experimenta, October 10-21, 2018 Videomedeja, Serbia, Media Installation, Competition, August 31 - September 2, 2018 Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, May 2018 Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Feb 2018 Gallery TPW, Exhibition, Jan 2018 View the TRAILER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1538755403952-LRU7JGFJCBQ3LYL8KQ4E/SWS_Laurels.jpg Special Works School (2018) - Special Works School (2018) Video and Sculptural Installation Recent Screenings and Exhibitions: Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, November 2018 BFI London Film Festival, Experimenta, October 10-21, 2018 Videomedeja, Serbia, Media Installation, Competition, August 31 - September 2, 2018 Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, May 2018 Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Feb 2018 Gallery TPW, Exhibition, Jan 2018 View the TRAILER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497704339-CBJDCBCFLULZ871T8T63/2Video_Purple_stands.jpg Special Works School (2018) Premiered at Gallery TPW January 13–February 24, 2018 documentation by Toni Hafkensheild Review for Canadian Art by Aaditya Aggarwal Previous Exhibitions: Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Marshall McLuhan Salon, Berlin. February 15 - 25, 2018 Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, Single-Channel Screening and Discussion, May 4, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497716833-ME6V6U8C3DMYOUW5K4PI/3Video_Cyan_Jars.jpg Special Works School (2018) “Special Works School” takes its title from a codename used by the British War Office between 1917 and 1919. The original moniker denoted a military unit of artists—painters, textile artists, scenographers, designers, sculptors, and scenic painters—employed to develop camouflage technology. Instead of rendering their surroundings with utmost accuracy, the artists in the Special Works School were charged with making things disappear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517496376270-4QZGBR2IUGQ3GPKT1QYY/2Video_Purple_stands.jpg Special Works School (2018) - Special Works School (2018) Video & Sculptural Installation Gallery TPW January 13–February 24, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 13, 2:00–5:00 pm   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517496690540-INOU04BTG33L0F2T6163/3Video_Sand_Stencil_nopeople.jpg Special Works School (2018) “Special Works School” transforms Gallery TPW into the speculative workshop of a surveillance artist. Throughout the gallery, objects and experiments stage the problems and possibilities of camouflage, and the accompanying video delves into its multi-sensory potential through an operatic, polyphonic exchange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497205303-6Q53ESSJP5NOLTVKEMHF/3Video_white_3lights.jpg Special Works School (2018) Through this new body of work, Bambitchell asks: what is the sound, feel, and smell of surveillance? What does an aesthetic approach to surveillance render visible or, indeed, invisible? Framing surveillance as an aesthetic practice, “Special Works School” hones in on its psychic, material, and embodied dimensions, working from the positions of both surveillor and surveilled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497757818-HE1WI3LF0OW2LK9EBMD4/4Experiments_curtain+facing.jpg Special Works School (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497776284-5PBW1YICLY54MLDD6QQ1/5Stencils_side.jpg Special Works School (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497791985-EH429NJYLQUJRH3DZBZF/5Stencils_z.jpg Special Works School (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497802355-A7D4E1EFTA3R0LVZY3U0/4Experiments_purple_stage+and+sand2.jpg Special Works School (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497811072-THZDL4DO66DZ0MGNRZQP/4Experiments_cyan_stage+and+sand2.jpg Special Works School (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497817398-0IY3979M1CWIIIP9JEGY/6Sand_sand.jpg Special Works School (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497825388-XRZOL2DOAZVB4VKP6W6P/6Side+sand_cyan.jpg Special Works School (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1517497832975-HXGRUISUSSMYIQYEFRI0/6Side+sand_purple.jpg Special Works School (2018) http://www.alexismitchell.com/bugs-and-beasts-before-the-law-2019 daily 0.75 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668671840141-2BQVGLXXFCVCC3YKDPLP/Henry-20210225-032-1600px.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2019) Film, Video, Installation 'Bugs and Beasts before the Law' is an experimental film that explores the medieval practice of putting animals on trial. This history of colonial law-making forged political and sometimes profane relationships between humans and animals. Mitchell & Bamboat essayistic work reimagines common perceptions of legal history and, in doing so, produces a world where past and present, fiction and non-fiction, human and animal fuse. image credit: Henry Art Gallery, film installation. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668671840141-2BQVGLXXFCVCC3YKDPLP/Henry-20210225-032-1600px.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2019) Film, Video, Installation 'Bugs and Beasts before the Law' is an experimental film that explores the medieval practice of putting animals on trial. This history of colonial law-making forged political and sometimes profane relationships between humans and animals. Mitchell & Bamboat essayistic work reimagines common perceptions of legal history and, in doing so, produces a world where past and present, fiction and non-fiction, human and animal fuse. image credit: Henry Art Gallery, film installation. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668671925062-MLZUR8F0GPWHR3LJPC5R/Henry-20210225-034-1600px.jpg+.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Henry Art Gallery, film installation. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668672400606-GK2BBRNN6COIINSF7QCE/Henry+20210225-212.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Henry Art Gallery, series of photocopy transfers, wall drawings, wallpaper. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668671932568-URT60HWV12WR1EN6PA20/Henry-20210225-045-1600px.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Henry Art Gallery, series of photocopy transfers, wall drawings. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668671939296-DM8UG5RHE3YGCEXO8GVV/Henry-20210225-050-1600px.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Henry Art Gallery, series of photocopy transfers. Photo: Jueqian Fang, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668672585112-1SEENSNVRQPF1TBT34KG/003_Appendix.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Mercer Union, Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668672720294-II84LBT6XY7GF3LLWEO2/MU_Bambitchell_A.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Mercer Union, Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1668673214429-3Z1S752PWAFFU2ZL9389/_PIR5387.jpg Bugs and Beasts Before the Law (2019) Bugs & Beasts Before the Law, Appendix A-L is a complementary publication to the experimental essay film Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2019) by Bambitchell, the artist collaboration of Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Kyle Mitchell. It is published on the occasion of the artists’ solo exhibition at the Henry, February 20 to May 9, 2021. http://www.alexismitchell.com/before-law daily 0.75 2023-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1685549635183-WSN880BT95FV6MZHF2FH/BL%2BHome.jpg Before Law - Before Law (2022) Since 2014, Bamboat | Mitchell have been building an expansive body of work and research around the legal trials of animals in Medieval Europe and by extension, its colonies. Framed as an appendix to their film, “Bugs and Beasts Before the Law” (2019), web-based artist project Before Law features the work of more than a dozen contemporary artists, writers, poets and thinkers with wide-ranging, playful, and critical interests in the five organizing chapters of the film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1685549635183-WSN880BT95FV6MZHF2FH/BL%2BHome.jpg Before Law - Before Law (2022) Since 2014, Bamboat | Mitchell have been building an expansive body of work and research around the legal trials of animals in Medieval Europe and by extension, its colonies. Framed as an appendix to their film, “Bugs and Beasts Before the Law” (2019), web-based artist project Before Law features the work of more than a dozen contemporary artists, writers, poets and thinkers with wide-ranging, playful, and critical interests in the five organizing chapters of the film http://www.alexismitchell.com/tohi daily 1.0 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1726215018647-R2U7975FZGOKNW2NRDX4/AKM_GI_Rough-5.jpg The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) Installation documentation Glasgow International 2024. Photo credit: Sean Patrick Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1726215018647-R2U7975FZGOKNW2NRDX4/AKM_GI_Rough-5.jpg The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) Installation documentation Glasgow International 2024. Photo credit: Sean Patrick Campbell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1715263182927-L5DHCKS2TG3US47XV4TK/TOHI-Poster-Final-Web2.jpg The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1713210527908-TGDV486XS20OTGY3QRAQ/Blue+Hands_cc.png The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) - The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) B&W/Colour 16mm film, Video, 5.1 Surround Sound, 60 minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1713210541255-MQTNIUK67JVT3IC48D23/portal.png The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) The Treasury of Human Inheritance is a poetic film about the experience of living with and alongside genetic disease and disability. Tracing loops, echoes and repetitions across the physical and spiritual realms, The Treasury combines documentation of family home movie footage, somatic and religious rituals for death and life after death, abandoned urban architecture teeming with natural growth, celluloid film hand-processed in genetic material, and an analogue synthesizer soundtrack that mimics specific inheritance patterns of genetic disease. In essence, this is a film about a family, but, more than that, it is a film made from the everyday patterns we embody in order to live through and with one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1713210551984-NH1SXR701QCJNPDJH4A3/Ag+Hands+1.jpg The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) “What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How do you live with death or rather how do you ‘live death’ when death comes too close, seeming to enter the very air you breathe?” – Jacqueline Rose, The Plague, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1751563086218-38NBHEYO7JAU2MF7J3EZ/01_Alexis+Kyle+Mitchell+at+Peer_Andy+Keate_The+Treasury_2025.jpeg The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) Installation documentation. From solo exhibition The Goal of Our Health at Peer Gallery, London UK May - August 2025. Photo credit: Andy Keate, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1726215203774-D48SB1RBKRGR7WSEQ0S3/AKM_GI_Rough-1.jpg The Treasury of Human Inheritance (2024) Installation documentation. Glasgow International 2024. Photo credit: Sean Patrick Campbell http://www.alexismitchell.com/circuits daily 0.75 2024-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1733369902214-X3RGXGQYLR764QIENHPK/IMG_1231.JPEG The Treasury of Human Inheritance (Circuits) The Treasury of Human Inheritance (Circuits) is a performance inspired by the inheritance patterns of a muscle-wasting genetic disease. The project blends movement, live sounds, modular synthesis, hand-made slide projections, and spoken word to express patterns of kinship, and rituals of repetition. (Circuits) is a continuation of a collaboration between Alexis Kyle Mitchell and Luke Fowler which forms parts of the score for Mitchell’s feature-film The Treasury of Human Inheritance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1733369902214-X3RGXGQYLR764QIENHPK/IMG_1231.JPEG The Treasury of Human Inheritance (Circuits) The Treasury of Human Inheritance (Circuits) is a performance inspired by the inheritance patterns of a muscle-wasting genetic disease. The project blends movement, live sounds, modular synthesis, hand-made slide projections, and spoken word to express patterns of kinship, and rituals of repetition. (Circuits) is a continuation of a collaboration between Alexis Kyle Mitchell and Luke Fowler which forms parts of the score for Mitchell’s feature-film The Treasury of Human Inheritance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1733369929222-IYN81PBZBJMO22M4K9KA/IMG_4927.jpg The Treasury of Human Inheritance (Circuits) Featuring Alexis Kyle Mitchell, Luke Fowler and Tamika Bernard. Documentation from MOCA, Toronto 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1733369915102-VEDQKFVG9B4JDCOQXIZE/8f1c8e92-81c1-4b09-a0dc-6a8e91fb976d.JPG The Treasury of Human Inheritance (Circuits) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1733369997669-W7K85PY0VQ2C3R8ICBW7/IMG_4987.jpg The Treasury of Human Inheritance (Circuits) http://www.alexismitchell.com/about daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1571740476821-JLXG408424K3GCN9X2PX/photo%2Bby%2BYuula%2BBenivolski About Photo by Yuula Benivolski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1409169920179-CKAZKHIEFLV53T6PEJJ8/Mitchell_bio_web.jpg About http://www.alexismitchell.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5052176b84aeb45fa5cfcc83/1349817862394-TX3STM31V0TM7UILO6ID/1349812992530.png Contact - Transient http://www.alexismitchell.com/press daily 0.75 2025-07-03 http://www.alexismitchell.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2019-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fbc41ce4b01724194860ee/1546697558926-345GQH3QZQ8MRDKU2HOB/Berlinale_SpecialWorksSchool_MG_7755.jpg Portfolio Documentation of installation ‘Special Works School’ at 2018 Berlinale Film Festival