Exhibition & Event Archive

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Linda Rae Dornan is an interdisciplinary artist creating video, installation and performance art, and writing. Her work explores visuals, performativity and embodied text about place, memory and being. She has won the Strathbutler Award and the Linda Joy Award, has been the recipient of many grants, and has exhibited / screened works across Canada, the United States, and in South America and Europe. She lives in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.

Video Pool is pleased to announce its participation in the eleventh annual international exhibition Device_art 5.015, to be held at the Klovićevi dvori Gallery, the Gradec Plateau, the Zagreb Academy of the Fine Arts and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb (Croatia), from September 24 to October 4, 2015. Organized by Zagreb’s KONTEJNER bureau for art praxis, this show is made possible through the partnership of Kapelica Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Eastern Bloc (Montréal, Canada) and Video Pool.

In celebration of Craft Year 2015, the Manitoba Craft Council is pleased to partner with Video Pool Media Arts Centre to bring you this program of shorts by three Manitoba artists whose work intersects with craft: tamara rae biebrich, Chantel Mierau and Seth Woodyard.

This July a second round of Dry Media was organized for a group of Winnipeg artists who gained access to the University of Manitoba Herbarium – a biorepository of dried, preserved plant specimens for scientific study. After exploring themes of bioart and botanical illustration through the ages, they dove into the plant collection. These artists viewed botanical specimens under microscopes, captured images with a microscope camera or camera lucida.

Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in partnership with Platform Centre for photographic and digital arts, is pleased to announce the exhibition of works created via the New Artist in Media Arts and Media Production Fund. Please join us July 24th at 7:00pm for the opening reception, screening and a chance to meet with the artists.

Video Pool Media Art Centre is a proud member of the Manitoba Artist Run Centres Coalition (MARCC). Each year MARCC sets up exhibits in shipping containers during the Winnipeg Fringe Festival on Albert Street between Bannatyne and McDermot.

Viewing Method Group – Distance Marks Time. This year we are excited to present the work of the Viewing Method Group, Thor Aitkenhead, Greg Hanec and Brian Longfield; Distance Marks Time.

IMG_1841Instant Coffee is a service-oriented artist collective based in Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Through formal installations and event-based activities, we build a public place to practice, where ideas, materials and actions can be explored outside of the isolated studio and in a manner that renegotiates traditional exhibition structures, but is still supported by them. Instant Coffee’s frequent practice is to build architectural installations, which become venues
for a series of organized events from formal lectures and screenings to informal gatherings and workshops. Each installation requires hosts who initiate some form of social interaction through the presentation and performance of ideas that pertain to artistic production and discourse.

Video Pool invites you to celebrate International Women’s Day 2015 with us by watching three videos online for free by three talented artists in our distribution catalogue. For this online screening we have for you: The Avoidance of Destruction: An Alternative by Sarah-Lynne Otsuji, Brief Encounters and Sustained Engagement by Freya Björg Olafson, Eye Eye Captain! (Eau Claire) by Shawn Olin Jordan. Available for viewing from Friday, March 6 at 5pm to Sunday March 8 only! Watch, enjoy and please share!