About
My research-creation practice imagines hybrid ecologies that investigate the
impact of cultural systems and technologies on the ecological crisis.
I use painting, video, 3D, light, sound, electronics, algorithms,
digital fabrication, and XR technologies to create immersive
installations that question capital, colonial, technoscientific, and
gender-based systems affecting the environment.
Refiguring the garden as a site of entangled intimacy and a space
for staying with the trouble of worlding, my work intertwines
fact/fiction, present/future, and real/virtual binaries through analog
and digital technologies to explore what it means to tend to and with
informatic systems through ongoing processes of alteration and
transformation.
Tending as a practice of care guides this approach, shaping
speculative worlds composed of video, light, sound, computational
systems, and both real and virtual plants. Experienced through
exhibition, scenography and audiovisual performance, these works provide
audiences with contemplative environments to reimagine on their
relationship to nature and consider how worldbuilding shapes the
affective and political realities of the climate crisis.
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Hailey Guzik is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal, QC. Supported by ArtsNB, Canada Council for the Arts, and CALQ, their work has been presented at Confederation Centre Art Gallery, MUTEK, This Town is Small, Everyseeker, and HIFF, amongst others. Their research on queerfeminist technogardening, environmental care, and artistic practice has been presented at Wild Kin: Queer Ecologies Symposium (2025) and published in Shorelines: Climate Concerns and Creativity (2021).
Originally from Menagoesg / Saint John, NB, Guzik holds a BFA from Mount Allison University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Intermedia at Concordia University, supported by SSHRC and the Peter N. Thomson Family Graduate Scholarship.
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