MAR Artist Talks
Kris Snowbird & Theo Pelmus
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, February 10 , 2021 | 7pm – 8pm CST
Location: Online – Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Cost:Â FREE
Limit:Â 100 participants
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.
About the artists:
Kris Snowbird is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist working in visual and performance art, photography and filmmaking. She is from Pine Creek First Nation and of Cree and Ojibwe descent. In 2015, she participated in the Foundation Mentorship Program at Mentoring Women for Women’s Art (MAWA), working one on one with curator, Natalia Lebedinskaia. Snowbird created her first short film SWEAT in 2016, which was funded by the Winnipeg Film Group’s Mosaic Women’s Film Fund. Since 2016, SWEAT is currently been presented on the digital media art platform, VUCAVU and touring around the world at film festivals like that of the 2016 Gimli Film Festival (Gimli, MB), Native Spirit Film Festival (London, England); in 2017, VIMAF (Vancouver, BC), Hot Docs, (Toronto, ON), Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival (Ottawa, ON), St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (St. John’s, NL), ReFrame Film Festival (Peterborough, ON), Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie (Percé, QC); and in 2019 Cinéma Oblò, (Lausanne, Switzerland), Cinéma Spoutnik, (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa, ON). Snowbird has performed with her collaborator and partner, Theo Pelmus, at each of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Winnipeg Nuit Blanche events, 2017 LIVE Biennale of Performance Art (Vancouver, BC), 2018 Cluster Festival (Winnipeg).
Theo Pelmus is a multi-disciplinary artist working in visual and performance art, photography and video. He presented his work nationally (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal) and internationally (Denmark, New Zeeland, NY. USA, Romania, Bogota, Colombia. Theo has performed with her collaborator and partner, Kris Snowbird, under the collective name PelmuSnowbird at each of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Winnipeg Nuit Blanche events, as well as the 2017 LIVE Biennale of Performance Art (Vancouver, BC).
About Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s Media Arts Residency (MAR):
The Media Arts Residency supports the creation of new, independent media art works. Eligible projects include video, sound or web based art, VR & Motion Capture, installation or performance works that include a media art component, physical computing, robotic or experimental electronic art. Successful applicants are awarded a one-year Annual Access Fee membership to equipment and editing facilities, free admission to a limited amount of Video Pool workshops and an opportunity to publicly present the work created over the year.
For more information about MAR and other residency opportunities at VP please see: https://videopool.org/media-arts-residency/
[Header image description:] A 3D scan of a statue of two human bodies draped in fabric, one lying in the lap of the other. Glitch-like image distortion is creating thin horizontal lines across the image. The colour palette is mostly greys and muted blues.
Please contact our Manager of Creative Programming for more information:Â katnancy@videopool.org