Open Studio Artist in Residence | Alex Apostolidis
12 August- 16 Sept 2026
Struts is pleased to welcome Alex Apostolidis, our next Open Studio Artist in Residence of 2026.
"Throughout my practice, I explore how gender and sexuality relate to capitalism through media, the status quo and interpersonal dynamics by combining archetypes and personal narrative to create image-based works across print, photography, video, performance, sculpture and site-specific installation. My recent practice has focused on video, exploring the notion of reimagining television as a space for DIY communal creation and education. This video practice is community-based, generally working with a large team more so akin to film production but I’m curious to narrow down and focus on simplifying these productions. I believe taking into account the larger contemporary efforts of broadcast and attempting to foster communal bonds with others to create a network is an act of reclamation of power in the broadcast landscape."
Alex Apostolidis is a queer multi-disciplinary artist with an image-based practice working in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal, Quebec). Using chaos and comedy as cloaking devices, they explore communal experience of mass media and deviance from cultural hegemony in broadcast media through performance, video art and photography via subject matter such as television and kitsch memorabilia. Apostolidis’ performance practice has spanned playing in punk bands, acting in plays and short films, and performing and directing their own experimental narrative durational performance pieces. They founded the ongoing video and performance project “IWant2BeOnTV” - which make videos and performances addressing power dynamics typically seen in cable television. Alex has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at Concordia University. Notably, their works have been shown at Celine Bureau (2023) and Artch (2023), Art Souterrain (2022) Montreal, QC, Performance is Alive (2019), Brooklyn, NYC.
More information about their residency and how you can be participate in Alex's project coming soon!
The Open Studio Residency Program is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts & Culture NB, and ArtsNB.
