Category: Programming 2009

Dominic Gagnon’s Rip in Pieces America is a feature-length single-channel video assembled entirely of video clips sourced from YouTube. The video contains numerous first-person critiques of contemporary western culture; focusing on issues relating to the war in Iraq, the recent economic crisis, and various conspiracy theories.

In collaboration with Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg, Video Pool presented wind coil sound flow. Gregory built an acoustic electro-mechanical system that poetically reproduced the processes involved in operating an Aeolian Kite Instrument in the field, (a wind instrument based on an Aeolian harp). The kite’s towline is acoustically attached to a resonator which amplified the wind-induced vibrations of the towline and resonated harmonically. This process created a large one-stringed guitar played by the wind.

In an effort to have broader community engagement, Video Pool presented Turner Prize’s performative installation, Summer of Dreams. The artists built a geodesic dome in the public plaza at Portage and Main, where they invited the public to come in and share their past dreams.