Exhibition & Event Archive
Past Video Pool Media Arts Centre programming and events
Yvette Janine Jackson | The Coding No. 2 (Synthetic Truths) – Poolside Gallery Exhibition
Yvette Janine Jackson | The Coding No. 2 (Synthetic Truths) Poolside Gallery Exhibition September 1 – Oct 3, 2021 VP is proud to co-present The Coding No. 2 (Synthetic Truths) with send + receive Festival of Sound. In this gallery-based audio-visual…
Queer Frontiers: Gislina Patterson and Dasha Plett – Virtual Performance
Queer Frontiers: Gislina Patterson and Dasha Plett Virtual Performance LOMAA is excited to welcome Gislina Patterson and Dasha Plett for the fourth event in the Queer Frontiers series! Patterson and Plett will be presenting a new virtual performance with two opportunities to…
Digital Dramaturgy Initiative – Call For Applications
The Manitoba Association of Playwrights (MAP) is looking for participants for a week-long residency workshop (June 21 to 26, 2021), taking place at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, exploring the integration of digital technology and expertise in early stages of story creation and project development.
Pieces of the Archive – Free Online Video Screening Program
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to present the program Pieces of the Archive. Pieces of the Archive shows a small cross section of work from the Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s collection. Looking back at the collection that spans almost forty years of collecting it is hard to tell the story of the history of video art in Manitoba. The five works in this program do not even attempt to do that, however they explore ideas of, experimental practice, performance, social discourse, identity, culture, and gender. These are recurring themes in the majority of work in the collection. If you enjoy any of these five videos, you will find so much more in our collection that will interest you.
MAR Artist Talks: Elise Dawson & Meganelizabeth Diamond
To wrap up their Media Arts Residencies (MAR) at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, our current artists-in-residence will be presenting artist talks(followed by Q&As) to share what they’ve been working on over the past year. Our second set of artists are Elise Dawson and Meganelizabeth Diamond.
MAR Artist Talks: Kris Snowbird & Theo Pelmus
To wrap up their Media Arts Residencies (MAR) at Video Pool Media Arts Centre our current artists in residence will be presenting artist talks to share what they’ve been working on over the past year. First up, Kris Snowbird and Theo Pelmus, who have been working collaboratively throughout the duration of their residency, will be presenting a performative artist talk.
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.