Each month, DARC highlights one of our incredible Members and one of the many exciting projects they’re working on. This month, our Member Highlight is Stacy Douglas, multimedia artist and member of DARC!
MEET STACY
Stacy Douglas (she/they) is a multimedia conceptual artist that works with video, theatre, sculpture, and collage. Stacy uses her art practice to develop and communicate her interests in law, aesthetics, democracy, and governance. She also teaches law and legal studies at Carleton University.
CURRENT PROJECT
Law is Aesthetic: Trope
“I am currently working on a four channel video installation set to open at the Berlin Biennale this summer (14 June – 14 September 2025). It uses four distinct videos to explore a trope found in cultural scripts about law, but also in case law itself, of waking up one day on the « wrong » side of the law. I claim that the trope acts as the dystopic boogeyman for liberal legalism, perversely authorizing its hegemonic claim to non-violence; it encourages us to think of violence as unexpected and aberrational, rather than everyday and mundane.”
“The videos are inspired by the research I am doing on this trope. They include a mix of found footage, new footage, a filmed rehearsal of a play I wrote, as well as a stateless person reading excerpts from judicial decisions about the « Kafkaesque ». Together they project a multi-faceted consideration of the use of time, fear, and threat in the project of governance, as well as how these tools of subjugation are resisted.”
“I used DARC facilities to film and edit one of the videos and Evelyn also helped me – among many other things – run my other videos on an old CRT to make sure they looked the way I wanted. Evelyn and the whole team at DARC are awesome. What an incredible resource for artists in Ottawa. Thank you so much!”
As a DARC Member, Stacy gets access to equipment, facilities, grants, residencies, workshop discounts, and so much more! Want to become a member like Stacy? Check out the DARC membership page to get started.
Psst! Want to be featured in our next Member Highlight? Active DARC Members can apply now through the Member Highlight submission form.
