The works I have produced, both critically engage the ritualized nature of social conventions, and try to create spaces where those conventions can be temporarily destabilized. I also anticipate that my works will raise many questions around the role of the audience and artist, and the dynamics of insider/outsider. This suggests a playing with the gap between expectation and actuality. My work often embraces error and incongruity and there is also the aspect of banal conversations and awkwardness that exists within each piece. It does so by positing that the use of a prosthetic, or artificial device, indicates our deficiencies in the interaction or exchange.   The objects that I use in my interactions may be seen as prosthetics, that facilitates these social interactions. I am specifically interested on the objects used in these interactions and how their meanings can be animated and multiplied.  Bio: Suzanne Caines graduated with her Masters of Arts (Fine Arts) from Chelsea College, the London Institute in 2004. Caines has held several solo exhibits and has participated in group exhibitions and festivals in public galleries in North America and Europe these include; Trampoline, Berlin Germany, Reception Space/Meals and SUV’s, London, England, The Projection Gallery, Liverpool, England, The Nunnery Gallery, London, England, Transmediale 2006, Berlin, Germany and VertexList Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, MSVU Art Gallery and the University of Toronto. Caines has received several Canada Council Grants, Nova Scotia Arts Grants and has participated in several international residencies including CAMAC Marnay Sur Seine, France, The Future Idea of Art, The Banff Center, Canada, CFAT, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Binaural, Portugal. She is currently working on performance that questions what is and what can be seen as our average everydayness and will be exhibiting at Optica spring, 2009.   >> download cv (PDF)