I am both honoured and humbled to be a recipient of an honorary Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship and the Dorothy J. Killam Memorial Scholarship. While I am very excited to be a part of the Killam family I also perceive it to be a great responsibility to represent both such a highly esteemed research community and the University of Alberta. As an artist it is an immense opportunity to be able to combine research and practice and explore new strategies with a broader socio-cultural perspective in mind. As recipient of a Vanier Canada Scholarship, the Dorothy J. Killam Memorial Scholarship and the research allowance that is part of an honorary Izaak Walton Killam Scholarship allow me to fund research trips and technical equipment I need for experiments, performance, and documentation of my work.

 

It can only be described as extremely fitting to evaluate the cultural relevance of an inherently intermedial work of art in Canada, the country that gave birth to the discipline of media studies, the first country that enshrined its uniquely multi-cultural situation into its constitution. The excellent faculty around my supervisor Dr. Jacques C. Després and the ideal location of the music department in the immediate neighborhood of the drama department makes the University of Alberta the ideal place to find the artistic means to address not only the problem of how to perform an inherently intermedial work but also the implicit questions about our own socio-cultural environment.