Let’s Get Tested

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents
Let’s Get Tested
A touring program of experimental film, video and audio, originally curated by Astria Suparak for the 50th anniversary of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, brings exciting new work from around the world to Winnipeg.
8:00 pm
Friday November 26, 2004
Video Pool’s Pool Room

Join us for the screening and celebrate the opening of Video Pool’s Pool
Room – Video Pool’s new space located on the basement level of the
Artspace building.  Reception will follow the program.  Curator will be
present.
Lets Get Tested – Approximate Running Time 70 mins

LET’S GET TESTED presents recent video, film and audio by Canadian,
American, Brazilian and French artists, young at heart or in age.
Taking education, biology, architecture and history as starting points, these
artists craft their own novel amusements. Hot on the Pursuit of the Trivial,
their taste turns gamey, playful, and chummy. The coolest nerds hack up
a1980s iconic revelry/reverie; an American Midwesterner romanticizes 1970s
German political terrorists; a Canadian snubs murder commands to
peacefully stroll through Grand Theft Auto 3; a video maker refashions his
memory into a sweet and disturbing mélange of literature, pop songs, film
and news reports – all trying to make the grade while honoring arbitrary
rules. Sometimes spontaneous, sometimes laboriously schemed, sporting
low-res Flash animation then slipping into silky digital video, this set of
eclectic work reckons that life should be savored, wonder is a calculated state
of mind, and love will survive…

Featuring:  Alex Villar, Jeff Chapman, Jennifer Schmidt, Jon Sasaki, Jim
Munroe, Sandy Plotnikoff, Gabriel Fowler, Paper Rad, Jon Rubin, Jo Ellen
Martinson and William Scott Rees, Patrick Martinez, Miranda July, Kon
Petrochuk, Mike Olenick

Astria Suparak curates site-specific film, video, and audio shows for
international art museums and galleries, film and cultural festivals, music
venues and bands.
After the programs screen to their particular audiences, Suparak then brings
the work to different settings and a wider public, with locations including
schools, sports bars, artist collectives, skating rinks and churches.
She is based in Montreal, Quebec and Brooklyn, New York.
For more information and press quality images visit:
www.astriasuparak.com/letsgettested.htm