Programming 2020 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Day With(out) Art 2020 – TRANSMISSIONS

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).

Un/spoken Online Screening

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

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.

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise

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.

Temporal Contours v09: The Latent Body

Originally planned as an in-person concert for pre-COVID Winnipeg, v09 of Temporal Contours took a number of twists and turns on the road to its realization, some related to the on-going negotiation of pandemic measures and others out of the desire from both the artists here as well as Video Pool as an organization not to take away space or distract from the greater causes at hand. In place of the live event we present to you four intimate, studio / apartment based recordings for your listening and viewing pleasure.

Showing Initiatives II

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.

CRIPTYCH

CRIPTYCH showcases a year of intensive project development from members of the DATA program, a collaboration between Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba and Video Pool Media Arts. This exhibition confronts outdated modes of therapy, unearths skeletons in the mental health care system, explores inner worlds of digitally-mediated self-examination and negotiates boundaries between vulnerable states of dependence, dis/ability and agency. The artists in CRIPTYCH take extraordinary lengths to share their experiences through these profoundly personal artworks.

Merging Mindsets – Social Media and Mental Health

Social Media platforms can be an integral part of building a creative brand and online community. In today’s society, these apps are one of the first go-to’s for potential clients to instantly understand and connect with your brand. Apps like Instagram and Facebook can require countless hours of your attention – creating content, editing, responding to comments and messages, interacting with others in the community and more. But what is this constant connection to media, messages, and information doing to our mental health? This presentation will discuss how to recognize when social media use is becoming a detriment to one’s mental health. In addition, we will talk about how to set up boundaries to engage in a healthy, moderated way, while still connecting with your audience and share resources available for those who are struggling to maintain balance.

QALEIDOSCOPE

QALEIDOSCOPE features short queer/QTBIPOC films that explore, question and play with identity to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender and race. As the titles suggests, QALEIDOSCOPE – will be a well-textured assemblage of images, characters, ideas, and realities that collide in fantastical, personal, and playful ways to produce an ever-changing, multi-faceted queer film viewing experience

Merging Mindsets – Principles and Tools of Interactivity

For artwork or installations to be interactive, artists and designers need to consider a multitude of factors, including what technology is needed and human behaviour. A willingness to engage can be different for everyone and usability can be a challenge. Technology can expand new avenues to bring your concept to life but it can also be temperamental. Join us to learn about sensors, software and considerations for incorporating interactivity into your artwork. This panel is designed to inspire and inform but will not be a hands-on workshop.