MARCC at the Fringe

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.

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

On display:

July 15, 16, 17 – 12pm to 10pm

Join us for snacks and punch on the opening night July 15th at 7pm.

Distance Marks Time is a variation on this approach which takes advantage of its special emphasis on time and place. In Distance Marks Time videos the members of Viewing Method Group go for a walk, or ride in a car, with our cameras with a set starting and ending point. The duration of the video is determined by the time it takes to arrive at the destination and the videos document the phenomena observed along the way. These works explore both visual phenomena and their relation to the experience of time while moving.

Viewing Method Group (VMG) is a Winnipeg-based experimental video art collective, that uses simultaneity, chance operations and detailed, regimented shooting procedures to create organic, stream of conscious moving image collages, that produce startling visual and auditory textures, illusions, and revelations.

Begun in 2014 by Thor Aitkenhead, Greg Hanec, and Brian Longfeld, VMG’s main goal is to apply these methods to as wide a diversity of subjects as possible, addressing issues surrounding perception and consciousness, as well as surveillance, private property, and societal rituals.