Kara Hansen

Kara Hansen

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Kara Hansen is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver. Her work combines film, photography, video installation, sculpture, social practice and performance. She is a founding member of the collective non-profit organization DUPLEX, a gallery and studio space that supports emerging artists in the exhibition of talks, shows, performances, readings, etc. located in Vancouver BC Canada.

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An Event So Fast 2021

"An Event So Fast" is an experimental documentary about a family's failed invention. In Ralston, Alberta, a town for families of the military, a father works for the Defense Research Board as an explosives researcher stationed at Suffield Experimental Station. His work leads him to pursue a life as a professor researching shock waves. Soon he devises a new kind of bulletproof material and employs his grown children to assist in experiments and promotions in order to get his invention to market. Through home movies and archival film, the family recounts how a belief in ideas becomes the greatest obstacle to success.
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Unspeakable Heap 2023

A work that traces my uncle's domestic environment, a retired Greco-Roman Olympian living in a sinking house built atop a decommissioned landfill in Denmark. In wrestling, the distance between a body and the ground is the difference between victory or defeat.
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Recovery as Disorientation N/A

A film by Kara Ditte Hansen