Exhibition & Event Archive
Past Video Pool Media Arts Centre programming and events
REVISIONS
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is thrilled to announce the exhibition of four new works developed at Video Pool Media Arts over the past year. These artists are the recipients of financial, technical, equipment and facility support in order to realize their creative projects, utilizing VP’s mechanisms and their own creative energy to develop these exciting new works.
Dinka Pignon – Exhibition and Artist in Residence
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to have sculptural projection artist Dinka Pignon in Residence from August 15 – 30, developing her new work, Game Over. Dinka will also be exhibiting Pool in Poolside Gallery which will be open for the Lost in Artsp_ace event on Thursday August 24 and will run through September 8, 2017. This project is made possible through the direct support of the Winnipeg Foundation and through the ongoing support of our funders, donors and volunteers.
Scott Leroux – Paradigm TV June 16 – July 17
Paradigm TV is a cast of video collaborations and solo works directed by Scott Leroux. Broadcasting through four channels Paradigm TV has something for everyone Experimental, Contemporary Dance, Music Videos, even Nature. As you flip through the channels you might find your self bombarded by a blast of colourful glitched-out pixels, soothed by a flower in the wind, mesmerized by the careful movement of a human body, or feeling nostalgic by a throwback to 90s music video culture. No matter what you’ll find something for you on Paradigm TV.
Poolside Gallery Launch Party
FINALLY, after nearly 35 years of supporting the development, exploration and dissemination of Winnipeg’s creative artistic practice, Video Pool Media Arts Centreannounces the opening of our very own POOLSIDE GALLERY, an intimate presentation venue for the creative exploration of media arts practices.
Video Pool Plant Sale Fundraiser
Along with the sale you can join us in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s new PoolSide Gallery, on the 2nd floor of the Artspace building, for a vegetation and growth based exhibit called Seeded. With work by Terry Billings (SK), Kelsey Braun (MB), Julie Gendron + Emma Hendrix (MB), Ken Gregory (MB), Joel Penner (MB), Colby Richardson (MB), curated by Jennifer Smith.
International Women’s Day Online Screening
The world has taken us down a strange path— one where sexism, racism and environmental disregard dominates and continues to persist. Many have risen up and fought for a more compassionate world, but despite this, we have found ourselves in a time where a man who embodies these exploitative ways runs the most powerful country in the world.
Online Screening: Journeys (Or alternatives to the Monomyth)
You have woken from a dream into somewhere even stranger. A woman dances alone in a room. The image is distorted, but you can make her out. A stream of individuals, one after another, watches the woman. Some are curious, some baffled, some upset. But there is no denying this act of dual voyeurism is exciting. Each new random individual representing a potential interlocutor, changing the experience of the performance. Multiple paths branch out. This is our starting point.
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.