Adad Hannah
Adad Hannah, was born in 1971 in New York and is a Montreal-based video artist. His work focuses primarily on the intersection between photography, performance and video, usually in the form of video-recorded tableaux vivants. His work has been shown at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2008), the Vancouver Art Gallery (2007), the National Gallery of Canada (2006), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham, 2006), the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2006), Casa Encendida (Madrid 2006) and Viper Basel (2004). In 2004 he won the Toronto Images Festival Installation/New Media Award and the Bogdanka Poznanovic Award at Videomedeja 8. He recently completed the six-projector installation Cuba Still (Remake) – a deconstruction of an unknown movie still from the middle of the 20th century and its subsequent reconstruction in video.