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As a researcher, writer, and maker-of-things, Oriana Confente explores postnatural ecologies and sustainable practices, with particular interest in more-than-human entanglements. Their interdisciplinary work engages with found objects, light-sensitive materials, and experimental approaches while responding to the call to be inclusive “all the way down” (borrowing a phrase that environmental scholar, Donna Haraway, often uses in her texts to emphasize the interconnectedness of our world). Through site-specific investigations, she employs do-it-together strategies to address topics of ecological and social urgency while making and re-making in collaboration with other-than-human actors. It is important to Oriana that others are invited to participate in research-creation, so her projects are often accompanied by written reflections or workshops to practice knowledge-sharing and accessibility in her process.
Oriana is currently living in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal. They began engaging with research-creation while completing their MA in Rhetoric and Communication Design at the University of Waterloo. Since then, Oriana’s projects have been exhibited in Canada and Europe, and published through peer-reviewed journals as well as creative platforms. She has attended art residencies in New York (SFSIA) and Spain (JOYA: arte + ecología). Oriana is performing in the opening season of Angles of Consequence in June 2025. In 2024, they earned a Canada Council for the Arts grant.
For further information, commissions, or collaborative inquiries, please get in touch.
Contact:
orianaconfente@gmail.com
@urghleshmeck
Past, present, and upcoming work:
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Oriana is currently living in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal. They began engaging with research-creation while completing their MA in Rhetoric and Communication Design at the University of Waterloo. Since then, Oriana’s projects have been exhibited in Canada and Europe, and published through peer-reviewed journals as well as creative platforms. She has attended art residencies in New York (SFSIA) and Spain (JOYA: arte + ecología). Oriana is performing in the opening season of Angles of Consequence in June 2025. In 2024, they earned a Canada Council for the Arts grant.
For further information, commissions, or collaborative inquiries, please get in touch.
Contact:
orianaconfente@gmail.com
@urghleshmeck
Past, present, and upcoming work:
CV spreadsheet (best viewed on desktop)