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Super Scraps: A Critical Material Workshop w/ Keeley Haftner

Super Scraps

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 6–9 pm
PAVED Arts Production Centre, 424 20th St. W. Saskatoon

As part of her senior production residency, artist Keeley Haftner invites participants to take part in a hands-on workshop centered on the collaborative creation of a new film made entirely from found and discarded footage. Haftner’s film scraps come from a recent durational performance at Stichting Ruimtevaart in the Netherlands, where cleaning and restoring the archive formed a site-specific installation that framed labour and care as artistic media.

The session begins with a short presentation on the materiality of film, including an introduction to artists who have explored this in their work, such as Simon Starling’s One Ton II and Zen for Film by Nam June Paik. Then participants will present their own film scraps—anything from failed exposures to outdated home movies—and work together to splice them into a single, collectively-produced film.

Tools & Materials

  • Please bring some film scraps (16mm, Super 8, 8mm, and 35mm) — e.g., home movies, student work, overexposures, leader film, cutting room floor material, etc. *If sourcing waste film is a barrier, please contact PAVED for support.

Skills Required

This is a beginner workshop, no skills are required.

Registration

Free for members, $30 for non-members. Purchase/renew your membership here. Sign up for the workshop by filling out the form below.

Registration Form
Photo by Jon Burun

Artist Bio

Keeley Haftner (b. 1985) is a Saskatchewanian-Canadian artist based in the Netherlands whose multidisciplinary practice centers waste as both material and metaphor. Through intimate acts of transformation, her work challenges extractive systems and prompts new ways of thinking about social and ecological relations. She was born and raised on Treaty 6 territory, on the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and Métis nations, to whom she and her ancestors are deeply indebted.

Her work has been exhibited internationally across the USA, Canada, and Europe, including at Schering Stiftung Berlin (DE), the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), and the Keramiekmuseum Princessehof (NL). Haftner received her BFA from Mount Allison University (2011) and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016).

She has received numerous awards and honours, including a longlisting for Canada’s prestigious Sobey Art Award and a shortlist nomination for the Netherlands’ biennial De Kei Prize. Selected residencies include the European Ceramic Workcentre (NL), Vermont Studio Center (USA), Living in the Play: NIDO II (IT) by the Poor Farm (USA), and SÍM (IS). She has presented and created work for Transmediale (Berlin), Open Engagement (Queen’s Museum, NYC), Chicago’s Architecture and Terrain Biennials, and This Art Fair (Amsterdam). Selected publications include The 3D Additivist Cookbook and BAKSTEEN | BRICK (Kunsthal KAdE). Her work is held in numerous institutional and private collections, including the Ceramic Museum of the Netherlands and The Over Holland Collection. Haftner is a two-time recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant and is currently a Professional Artist with Stroom (NL).

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