Category: Programming (page 12)

The Indigenous Media Arts Initiative is a youth mentorship program run by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in partnership with CEDA/Pathways, that provides focused artistic development opportunities to four Indigenous youth, providing mentorship and learning opportunities in various forms of media arts creation and production. Mentees are paired with established artists from the Indigenous community and provided with 6 months of mentorship and training at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, including one year of free access to our equipment and facilities. The results of their mentorship will be on display at our Poolside Gallery on the 2nd floor of Artspace, and will be distributed internationally through our Video Distribution department.

Video Pool Media Arts Centre and Poolside Gallery have teamed up with the Cluster Festival this year and is excited to host asinglewordisnotenough, where Seth Parker Woods will play an intimate solo recital of works for cello and electronics by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Oliver Thurley, Monty Adkins, Chinary Ung, Martin Iddon and Mary Jane Leach.

No Man’s Land started with a residency supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in Manitoba (2016). The purpose of this residency was to follow the Manitoba-United States boundary strip, which is 6 meters wide by 444 kilometers long. This line, neither American nor Canadian, is a true no man’s land separating Manitoba from the states of North Dakota and Minnesota. We explored, traveled, photographed and filmed it. Our main action was to take samples (soil squares and soil prints). Ten samples were taken. The video set of landscape and interventions of real samplings carried out constitutes a artialisation: that is to say an artistic transformation of the boundary landscape. This artialisation is applied at Poolside Gallery in the form of an installation called No Man’s Land.

In recent anti-colonial discourse, nostalgia has been employed as a strategy to revisit and revive pre-contact past on one’s own terms for one’s own. Because of its “failure to adapt” to the structures of modern life, nostalgia is evoked as a radical tool that can trouble the colonial. Through these films, I explore the ways in which nostalgia can also spill into and trouble the lives of those already marked by colonialism. In brushing up against colonial, pre-colonial, and personal sets of nostalgia Darryl Nepinak, Divya Mehra, and Garland Lam Turner deliberate on the persistence of memory in the present.

Isolated Landscapes is a major exhibition of the history of video art by women who live and work in the central Canadian region or who were informed by years of residing in (or growing up in) the region. The nineteen works in the exhibition (by twenty-one artists) were produced between 1984 – 2009 and play a prominent role in the history of Winnipeg’s legendary Video Pool Media Arts Centre. The project represents pioneering, early video art production by women artists working in various genres and reveals their ability to utilize the available technology of the time in response to the region’s perceived isolation and starkness, reflected in geographical, cultural and personal landscapes.

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