kennedy+swan

kennedy + swan, a cooperation between artist Bianca Kennedy and the Swan Collective, a fictive artist group initiated and maintained by Felix Kraus, have established a diverse practice exploring narrative interests in a range of media including virtual reality, 3-D animation, literature, painting, and film. In works that increasingly use augmented, immersive worlds to delve into themes of social and environmental upheavals, they confront viewers with speculative scenarios where power balances between humans, nature, and technology are in states of flux. Accompanied by narrations that question the authenticity of existence outside their virtual experiences, kennedy+swan ’s uncanny realms of uninhabited, modern architectures bathed in rapidly changing light exposures add to a disorienting sense of space and time. kennedy+swan ’s works evoke futures of hybrid ecosystems where an understanding of the interdependency of all life forms is necessary for survival. (Recipients of the 1st Prize from the Toronto New Wave Festival in 2019)