Exhibition & Event Archive

On Saturday January 14th the glycemic index shot up sky-high at Video Pool, when the Art’s Birthday cakes hit the palates of our discerning celebrity judges. The competition was tooth and nail, icing and fork! The results are in…

Real & Surreal Cake Contest Winners

Cakes were judged on their artistic and culinary merits by local food and art critics, Morley Walker (Winnipeg Free Press), Kristin
Pauch-Nolin (Uptown Magazine), Jaeny Baik (CBC Radio) and Cyrus Smith (artist, chef and bon vivant).

McSwain writes that Wendy Geller’s video work “encompasses a voice and structure that strips away the habits and politeness that shield us from the forces of nature, and the hierarchies of power that suffuse western society. In her humorous satire, her feminist sensibility revels in critiquing Freudian psychoanalysis as well as the role(s) of actresses within the Hollywood star system. However, Geller’s voice finds its most multilayered synthesis in her series Stories for the Garden.

September 20, 2005
Video Pool and aceartinc. present a lecture by writer and curator Sarah Cook

Sarah Cook is a Sunderland University doctoral researcher in New Media Curation (a collaboration with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art). She worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and organised the EAT on-line forum there. She has been a curator-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada and has worked at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

The ATELIER NATIONAL du MANITOBA & DANIEL BARROW present

Garbage Hill: A Retrospective of Discarded Winnipeg Film and TV

Video Pool’s Poolroom and the Cinematheque
August 26, 27 & 28, 2005

A Multimedia Performance by Charles Sheppard
Saturday June 25, 2005

Gameshow version 1.0 is an interactive digital performance art event that explores the issues and dynamics of interactivity by placing a live performer in a computer generated 3D gaming environment, where she can interact with a live studio audience via video projection.

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby:
The New Freedom Founders
May 27, 2005 – June 17, 2005

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents
2boys.tv
Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard
Artists’ talk and screening
Friday April 1, 2005 7:30 pm
Video Pool’s Poolroom (basement level Artspace Building)

Join us for a screening of three recent videos by Montréal/Chicago-based artist Frédéric Moffet. Blurring the line between facts and fantasies, his work investigates the out-of-control body torn between ethics and desires. His videos and films have been shown at festivals and galleries from Zurich to Hong Kong.

Frédéric Moffet will be present to introduce the videos and answer questions after the screening.