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Natalie Purschwitz is an artist educator living and working on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ Nations, known as Vancouver. Her research draws on modes of making that include collecting, accumulating, arranging, editing, and writing. She is curious about the ways in which landscapes are shaped by both humans and nonhumans, exploring systems of organization, networks of support, and ruptures within these systems. By reconfiguring everyday objects and elemental substances, Purschwitz creates conditions for material events. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at venues including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, Plug ICA in Winnipeg, the Japanese Canadian National Museum in Burnaby, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, as well as the Prince Takamato Gallery in Tokyo, Japan and AGX Galerie in Tehran, Iran.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.