My name is Soeine Bac. I am an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. I explore the relationship between movement and space, using improvisation as the main method. 

I initially studied literature, before studying art. I consider poetry as the highest form of human endeavour, and I pursue poetic qualities in my art.

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I have been attempting to extend art as a form of living, beyond a merely institutional discipline. I explore how, through arts, we can connect to ourselves, to each other, and to the world around us. Since life itself is improvised, improvisation has become my general method and conceptual ground for art and life. In this sense, improvisation is my artistic medium. I see life as a form of art, and my artistic products are the trails or residues of the process of living.

My art practice is interdisciplinary in essence. Dancing has influenced the way I make art; I tend to pursue abstraction rather than representation. Conversely, my visual art background shapes the way I understand dance; I interpret body movements in the contexts of visual art practice. In addition, I have been interested in sound art in recent years. I have tried to merge visual art, sound art, and dance in a form of site-specific performance.

Working with the body brings me close to the materiality of things and makes me aware of its constant change, which frustrates our human desire for permanence. I contemplate the material itself to witness its process of change. This contemplation allows me to improvise my reception of the objects at the given time and in the given space.