Angus Steele-Gaffney is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, writer, and facilitator born in 1996 in the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3) and others under Treaty 7, also known as Calgary, Alberta*. He holds a BFA in Music with a minor in English Literature from Concordia University, Tiohtià꞉ke (Montréal, Quebec) and has worked professionally as an artist for the past seven years.

Angus’ arts practice incorporates a variety of instruments and media ranging from recycled soda cans to reactive audiovisual software programs. With a focus on sound design and experimentation, Angus investigates new ways to play, experience indeterminacy, and to connect humans with the world-immediate.

Angus has previously performed, recorded, and toured with the Count Ferrara Band and Bradyworks’ Instruments of Happiness. He has produced music and video for Murphy Movement, Healthy Dancer Canada, and Impulse Theatre among others. He also develops custom, open-source music and graphics software tools and works as a text and audio editor for articles, research papers, and podcast, and radio.

Angus is a founder and director of KALYX Collective, hosts of an interdisciplinary performance and creative events platform dedicated to creating inclusive arts events with a fluid and non- hierarchical structure. He is also a member of the board of directors for the fifty fifty arts collective, a non-profit, volunteer-run, multi-disciplinary programming space that supports both emerging and established artists in unceded Lək̓wəŋən Territory (Victoria, BC). Angus has also hosted workshops on interdisciplinary art creation and collaboration, worked as an artist’s facilitator for the Disability Alliance of British Columbia. and accompanied dance classes at the University of Calgary.

Angus now lives and works as a guest in unceded Lək̓ wəŋən Territory on Turtle Island (also known as Victoria, BC, Canada), home of the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱ SÁNEĆ First Nations whose historical relationships with the land continue into the present day. He lives and collaborates frequently with his partner, movement artist Amber Downie-Back.