Fawn Daphne Plessner

Pender Island
Canada

Fawn Daphne Plessner is an artist and academic. Her art practice centers on “doing politics” in the form of public art interventions that engage with the politics of place, and enacting, through art, a commitment to W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation Law and community in the place of her residence. Her art interventions incorporate deep research, writing, visual and text-based art, “aesthetic journalism”, and currently, audio/sound works that combine storytelling, social and political analysis, and experimental music. Her academic work includes a recent book titled ‘Doing Politics with Citizen Art’, published by Rowman and Littlefield Int., under the series title ‘Frontiers of the Political’.