Pairatext is an interdisciplinary art and curatorial collective comprised of Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith. Bridging the space between anthropology and art, they have collaborated since 2009 when they met as members of the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective.

Trudi Lynn Smith is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria (Canada). Trudi specializes in interdisciplinary research-creation and collaboration, working with human and more-than-human communities at the intersection of experimental art, ethnography, and political ecology. Her practice is grounded in a concern with the embodiments, relationships, techniques, and ethics of image-making and explorations of impermanence and uncertainty in photography.
(trudi.smith@gmail.com | Website)

Kate Hennessy is Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (Canada). As an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary research-creation and production studio, her work uses collaborative, feminist, and decolonial methodologies to explore the impacts of new memory infrastructures and cultural practices of media, museums, and archives. She values working across disciplinary boundaries in her practice, including expression in video, photography, digital fabrication, and virtual exhibition.
(kate_hennessy @sfu.ca | Website)