Programming 2016 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Video Pool Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program

The Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program was a collaboration with Community Education Development Association (CEDA/Pathways). Each participant was paired with a mentor from the arts community; Niki Little, Luther Alexander and Jackie Traverse to learn and create a video project. This project was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Artist and Community Collaboration grant.

Exiled Mothers

he film Exiled Mothers takes us on the artist’s journey to recover her own repressed memories as she examines the social construction of relinquishment, adoption, and motherhood. It introduces us to many other Canadian mothers, who as young women—caught between love for their children and a social snare that demanded surrender—shared the same experience as Sharon that takes a lifetime to resolve. More than a film about adoption and loss, we witness an important period in the history of Western women as we emerge from the fog of a time when the judgment of so many, wilfully separated masses of mothers from their children.

Interview with Michelle Teran

Michelle Teran’s video work “Mortgaged Lives” was included in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s AGE OF CATASTROPHE exhibition that ran from November 13 – December 12, 2015. Teran came to Winnipeg for the opening of the show and to speak at CATASTROPHE, CATACLYSM AND THE SINGULAR ACCIDENT symposium in conjunction with the exhibition. While she was here she also recorded this interview with Video Pool’s director, Dr. Melentie Pandilovski.

Insomniac’s Dream

In conjunction with Nuit Blanche Winnipeg 2016, Video Pool is excited share four works from our collection selected by Letch Kinloch and Kegan McFadden. Video Pool will host this selection for exclusive online viewing from Friday 30 September – Sunday 02 October.

Interwoven

featuring new works by: Daniel Barrow, Andrew Milne / Chantal Dupas, Alexis Kinloch, Niki Little/Breanna Little/Becca Taylor, Kelly Ruth

Interview with Nina Czegledy

Nina Czegledy, artist, curator, educator, works internationally on collaborative art & science & technology projects. The changing perception of the human body and its environment as well as paradigm shifts in the arts inform her projects. She has exhibited and published widely, won awards for her artwork and has initiated, lead and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide at international events.

Plant Sale Fundraiser

House plants, herbs, veggies, terrariums and more will be for sale! But wait! There’s more… We will also be selling raffle tickets for these two gorgeous paintings by Brenna George.

ENHANCED VISION – DIGITAL VIDEO talk with Kathy Rae Huffman

‘Enhanced Vision – Digital Video’ focuses on digital methodologies to enhance the moving image, especially looking at how effects can reveal specific meaning and content. Each work brings its own unique, original artistic style to reveal a socially significant issue, such as pollution, surveillance, personal/public space, and disaster (political, natural, nuclear, and technological).

International Women’s Day 2016 Online Screening

Video works by Christine Kirouac, Divya Mehra and Wendy Geller curated by Bev Pike were available to watch online March 8 & 9! In celebration of International Women’s Day on Tuesday, March 8, Video Pool was excited share three works in our collection made by incredibly talented Manitoban women, curated by Bev Pike.

Experimental Art Practice: Art and Biological research combined with Marta de Menezes

Marta’s talk explores the multiple possibilities of artistic approaches that can be developed in relation to Art and Biology in contemporary art practice and research. A special emphasis will be placed on the development of collaborative art and biology projects where the artist has to learn some biological research skills in order to create the artwork.