Greg Hanec is a multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg, Canada. He has been presenting his art to the public since 1980, and has worked in fields such as film, video, music, performance art, photography, and painting. Hanec continues to develop his ideas and techniques in these fields to this day.
Throughout the 1980s, Hanec concentrated mainly on cinema, producing several short and feature-length 16mm films. These included Downtime (1985) and Tunes A Plenty (1988). Downtime represented Canada at the 1986 Berlin International Film Festival in the Forum section of the festival, and has continued to be shown in Canada and internationally up to the present day.
The 1990s saw Hanec continue in cinema, with the production of the feature film Think at Night, as well as numerous film and video-based projects including Rave Projection and Guerilla Projection, both utilizing up to three 16mm projectors with loops. The Guerilla Projection project was shown locally, nationally, and internationally. Hanec also began to present his music publicly in this decade, experimenting in Suture with both compositional ensemble playing and improvisation. This decade also saw Hanec begin his engagement with performance art in group shows like 1993’s Disaster Create Bad Habits and 1999’s Suture, commissioned by and presented at the Neutral Ground Artist’s Run Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan.
In the 2000s, Hanec concentrated on the musical act Suture but also continued to work in both the production of performance art and cinema. Films in production at that time included the feature films The Locals (2008-2010) and Diagrams (2012). Hanec also created the performance art work Mechanika: the Uses and Benefits of Mechanical Problems (funded by a grant from the Manitoba Arts Council) in 2010. He has also developed more musical and cinema projects from 2012 to the present, including Viewing Method Group, field////, projectorPROJECT, Philia, and DJ Salinger, as well as continued to work in performance art with Chronostasis (2019) and Community of Continuity (2020). Hanec has also developed his painting to the point of having two exhibitions, Re-Find/Renewal (2014) at the Tumble Contemporary Art Gallery and Oracular Objects (2022) at the Graffiti Gallery, a solo exhibition of his paintings, both in Winnipeg.