Category: Programming (page 7)

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to present the program Pieces of the Archive. Pieces of the Archive shows a small cross section of work from the Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s collection. Looking back at the collection that spans almost forty years of collecting it is hard to tell the story of the history of video art in Manitoba. The five works in this program do not even attempt to do that, however they explore ideas of, experimental practice, performance, social discourse, identity, culture, and gender. These are recurring themes in the majority of work in the collection. If you enjoy any of these five videos, you will find so much more in our collection that will interest you.

For Day With(out) Art 2020, Video Pool Media Arts and partners Nine Circles Community Health Centre are proud to support Visual AIDS in their presentation of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six newly commissioned videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), Las Indetectables (Chile), Charan Singh (India/U.K.), and George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda).

Curated by Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Marie-Anne Redhead, Un/spoken is a video screening program presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Gallery 1C03 and Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art as part of the exhibition, Sovereign Intimacies. Un/spoken weaves together work by Indigenous artists and racialized artists in diaspora from all over the world. It features works by Sebastien Aubin, Marissa Sean Cruz, Léuli Eshrāghi, Sky Hopinka, Francisco Huichaqueo, and Karin Lee.

SADZEÈ ; TIME is an interactive multimedia installation by artist Casey Koyczan, inviting the viewer to reflect on their relation to the sun, moon, and the perception of time as they navigate throughout the gallery, affecting the audio-visual narrative with their presence. Co-presented with send+receive: a festival of sound.

The current era of imposed isolation has ushered in a seismic disruption to the communal structures of daily life. Freedoms of movement and communal living have been fundamentally redefined in the wake of uncertain futures. New relational topographies of immobility and social distance are now shared globally. To live within the present day requires a conscious consideration of place as co-created with and between others.

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to host Showing Initiatives II,a programcurated by Jenny Western. In this program Western continues her look at initiatives that encourage Indigenous artists to take up video art and filmmaking. The program exhibit nine films and videos made across the prairies.