Helga Jackobson: Shimmer

Helga Jakobson: Shimmer

Queer ecology calls us to reimagine many ways of being and acting, from self expression to defence. An example of this is looking at how some bee colonies in their swarm formation collectivize and defend in a wave-like action which is sometimes referred to as shimmering. Through movements that demonstrate solidarity and strength, the community works together in a stunningly visual display that protects and asserts presence.
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Temporal Contours v07

Anju Singh has been the primary figure behind the Vancouver Noise Festival for the past seven years, the drummer and vocalist in long-running (and now nearing fully-realized) death metal band AHNA, and has held countless other roles in the punk, metal, and harsh noise scenes in Vancouver. THE NAUSEA has existed alongside all of this for the better part of a decade now.
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Temporal Contours v06

Tim Olive uses modified magnetic pickups, consumer detritus (springs, styrofoam, metal sheets, hand-wound motors, magnetic tape, dental floss) and analog electronics to make a lo-fi, difficult-to-categorize music, existing at the intersection of noise, live electronic music, and musique concrete, with sound-textures and scraps of pitched material evolving, shifting and mutating in real time, resulting in a music which is uncanny, uneasy, and yet somehow beautiful.
Erkia Lincoln: Fugue state

Erika Lincoln

In 2016, the Japanese satellite Hitomi-ASTRO-H spun out of orbit and broke up. The cause of the accident was ascribed to both software and human error. In reading multiple reports on this event, Lincoln was interested in the anthropomorphic language used to describe the satellite’s behaviour just before the breakup. Lincoln began to explore this assigned agency by speculating on what Hitomi’s “state of mind” would be from dealing with the conflicting error messages. The result is an installation of two sculptural works, Aerial Effusions and Hitomi, in a conversation.
AETHER*ECLIPSE: BEAST NEST

Cluster presents: AETHER*ECLIPSE at Video Pool Media Arts

Please join us on Saturday March 2 in The Output for a special evening of sounds from Oakland, California’s Beast Nest and Winnipeg’s MirrorFrame.

Part of Cluster: New Music and Integrated Arts Festival

Sharmi Basu (Beast Nest) will also host a workshop, Decolonizing Sound: Presence and Liberation in The Output on Sunday March 3.

Colby Richardson, 2019 Fund recipient

Scott Leroux Fund 2019 recipient Colby Richardson

It is our pleasure to announce Colby Richardson as the 2019 recipient of the Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration. Colby will inhabit Poolside Gallery for the month of March and has some ambitious plans for our legacy video equipment that has been faithfully stored and maintained over the years. In addition to employing use of this equipment to develop new work, Colby will host a number of open-studio days and a presentation on the First Friday of April.