bio:::
Born in 1980, Rebecca Ladida is a transdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation. Through mixed media installation, performance, immersive art, video work, research and DIY curating, Rebecca’s solo and collaborative practice provides modals of intimacy, hospitality and ecological co-habitation fostering collective study and placemaking. They are working on a long-term arch-project born out of their former curatorial pratice called Carceral Ecologies, within which they are developping a new endeavor called Study, hosted is an interdisplinary installation project exploring how we collectively produce, circulate, and reclaim knowledge around gendered violence through the relationships between testimony, the law, and feminist practices of study.
Ladida’s work has been shown at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Downtown Player’s Club in Atlanta, Dfbrl8r Gallery and Siblings in Chicago, The Situation Room and LACE: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in L.A., Raizvanguarda Associação Cultural in Bordeiro (Portugal), La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Festival HTMlles & dpi.23, Ada X, in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, to name a few. They have guest lectured at The School of the Art Institute Chicago, University of Illinois in Chicago (USA), as well as Ottawa University in Canada. ︎ ︎
artist statement:::
Rebecca Ladida (her/they/Mx.) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is hinged around the performative and often marked by excess. Putting our relationship to space into question through installation, performance, immersive art, DIY community arts organizing, and video, Lavoie explores carceral ecologies, hospitality, cohabitation, and the conditions through which bodies and forms of life are allowed to belong.
Her work asks how we conceive of and engage with kinship, space, bodies, borders, and boundaries, and what we choose to tend to, protect, or exclude. These questions interrogate both belonging and recognition, while opening space for other forms of relation and collective knowledge.
Across her artistic and curatorial work, Lavoie seeks to engage intersectionality not only as an analytical framework, but as a practice rooted in queer-feminist kinship, collaboration, and community-building. Her approach is deeply influenced by the politics of punk: a politics of refusal, autonomy, experimentation, and collective self-determination.
Her current research-creation practice extends these concerns through Study, hosted, which approaches study as a collective and relational practice — and as a form of refusal. Here, learning, listening, gathering, and the circulation of situated knowledge become artistic practices in themselves.
Lavoie’s practice is ultimately concerned with making and inhabiting spaces differently: spaces where bodies, knowledge, care, and forms of belonging can be contested, rehearsed, and reimagined.
Rebecca Ladida (her/they/Mx.) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is hinged around the performative and often marked by excess. Putting our relationship to space into question through installation, performance, immersive art, DIY community arts organizing, and video, Lavoie explores carceral ecologies, hospitality, cohabitation, and the conditions through which bodies and forms of life are allowed to belong.
Her work asks how we conceive of and engage with kinship, space, bodies, borders, and boundaries, and what we choose to tend to, protect, or exclude. These questions interrogate both belonging and recognition, while opening space for other forms of relation and collective knowledge.
Across her artistic and curatorial work, Lavoie seeks to engage intersectionality not only as an analytical framework, but as a practice rooted in queer-feminist kinship, collaboration, and community-building. Her approach is deeply influenced by the politics of punk: a politics of refusal, autonomy, experimentation, and collective self-determination.
Her current research-creation practice extends these concerns through Study, hosted, which approaches study as a collective and relational practice — and as a form of refusal. Here, learning, listening, gathering, and the circulation of situated knowledge become artistic practices in themselves.
Lavoie’s practice is ultimately concerned with making and inhabiting spaces differently: spaces where bodies, knowledge, care, and forms of belonging can be contested, rehearsed, and reimagined.