David LaRiviere is a Canadian artist based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His practice engages photography, video, sound, and site-based research, with a focus on Anti-Tourism as a critical methodology.
David LaRiviere was raised in a nondescript suburb of Edmonton, the kind that appears interchangeable with countless North American developments, yet one he maintains may one day warrant an Anti-Touristic treatment. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta and, in pursuit of the opposite, an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since January 2008, he has served as Artistic Director of PAVED Arts in Saskatoon, where he established the publication series PAVED Meant and has curated numerous exhibitions.
LaRiviere’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Canada. In 2019, he completed a three-month residency, sound walk, and exhibition titled #everysordiddetail at Open Space Arts Society (Victoria, BC), which marked the first sustained articulation of what has since developed into an Anti-Tourism methodology. This project was followed by further site-based engagements closer to “home,” including Treaty Six: The Smooth and the Striated, presented as part of the borderLINE: 2020 Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton) The Mann Art Gallery (Prince Albert) hosted a related solo exhibition entitled Anti-Tourism on Treaty Six Territory (2022).
His current practice spans audio art, video, photography, web-based work, performance, and public interventions. This multiplicity of media is informed by a research trajectory grounded in continental philosophy, ecosophy, and affect theory, with particular attention to social, political, and artistic frameworks that challenge classical, colonial, and majoritarian institutional logics. Within this context, LaRiviere aligns his practice with minoritarian approaches to artistic expression, emphasizing situated encounter, attentiveness, and resistance to prescribed modes of cultural consumption.
Anti-Tourism
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Selected Positions and Education
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