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Thanks so much to Eli Bjedov-Stanković for participating in our 2025 artist-in-residence program! Throughout the time in Fredericton, Eli explored papermaking and ran workshops that engaged with DIY, at-home papermaking techniques.
While in New Brunswick, Artist-in-Residence Eli Bjedov-Stanković was assisted by Connexion ARC in making tide paper in the Bay of Fundy at Saint Andrews, NB, a project Eli had been building towards since their origins into papermaking. The experimental project was open to participants and took place as the tide receded through the night. Connexion and Eli set up thorough documentation of the work, which became this documentary-style video.
Eli Bjedov-Stanković is a papermaker and fibre artist living and working in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal, recently graduated from Concordia University. Aside from making paper with others, they are preoccupied with Mystery and transformation – the way that material and Spirit are continuously cycled through the human and more-than-human. Working with local materials, they explore scarcity and abundance in art. They use salvaged, scavenged, and re-transformable materials to explore personal and collective narratives. Working with materials in a circular way, they strive to place their work in a cycle, an inaccessible timeline on which everything moves before being recycled into the Earth. More broadly, their work is informed by body-space relationships, musicians playing together, elaborate costume changes, and death.
Huge thanks to the New Brunswick Arts Board and the Government of New Brunswick for their support of this project.
