Temporal Landscapes
Video Commission Residency 2025 Presentation
VP is excited to announce an A/V presentation of three new video artworks created by the recipients of the Video Commission Residency for 2025!
VCR is a residency for the creation and exploration of experimental screen-based work.
Featuring new work by Zoƫ LeBrun, Ryan Hill & B.G-Osborne, please join us for the premiere of these gorgeous new works.
NOTE: The gallery installation/presentation will show the work in a unique way with artists present.
Gallery Presentation is ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Synopsis
Nocturne - Zoƫ LeBrun
Utilizing the āglitchā as a portal into hidden worlds, Nocturne explores the metaphors of nothingness embedded in darkness. It suggests that the indeterminate qualities of the unknown can provide revelations of wonder rather than existential dread, and that we can move through the unknown while also carrying it with us.
Computer-Assisted Simulation Technology for Optimizing Rivers- Ryan Hill
"Computer-Assisted Simulation Technology for Optimizing Rivers" is about beavers managing the water and other resources in a location in southern Manitoba where two rivers connect. Through the construction of dams and lodges, the landscape is transformed into one of greater productive value.
Peripheral vision - BG Osborne
peripheral vision is an experiment with magnetic video recording and manipulation in order to promote media degradation/loss of information as signals are repeatedly translated between analog and digital.
through a transsexual and neurodivergent lens, the artist explores the interplay between optic and social aberrations and expresses their anxieties about the alarming rise of surveillance and fascism in so-called canada.
About the Artists
Zoƫ LeBrun
Zoƫ LeBrun (she/they) is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from and practicing on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Their process-based practice rests at the intersections of video, installation, and sound art. Through these mediums, LeBrun seeks to better understand the human condition, utilizing materials and processes which embody metaphors of lived experience and bodily function to do so. The works she creates reveal themselves over time, underscoring themes such as temporality and existentialism and making the physical processes behind them indivisible from the conceptual core of their practice. LeBrunās work has been exhibited at aceartinc., Dornbacher StraĆe 59,Ā Mentoring Artists for Womenās Art, the Poolside Gallery, and the School of Art Student Gallery. Their films have been screened at the Dave Barber Cinematheque, the Muriel Richardson Auditorium, the Winnipeg Art Gallery Rooftop, and at Graffiti Art Programming, where she has also performed live in their ongoing space)doxa programming. LeBrun holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba and her work is held in private collections in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Vienna, Austria. She is also a co-host of Eat Your Arts and Vegetables on CKUW 95.9 FM.
Ryan Hill
Ryan Hill was born in 1978 and raised in Flin Flon, Manitoba. He moved to Winnipeg to study computer science and remained, developing web sites and virtual reality applications. He has also long held an interest in animation; as a child, making stop-motion with a VHS camera that could record quarter-second clips, and years later using digital cameras or animating on the computer. He has sometimes combined these interests by making video games or procedurally-generated videos.
B.G-Osborne
Oz [B.G-Osborne] is a white, queer, gender-variant, autistic settler of Scottish, British, Irish and French descent. They were born and raised on Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Territory [Kawartha Lakes], and are currently an uninvited guest on the ancestral and current homelands of the Beothuk, Mi'kmaq, Innu and Inuit on the Southeast coast of Ktaqmkuk [Newfoundland]. Oz's ongoing projects seek to unpack and communicate their experiences with mental illness, neurodivergence, grief and familial bonds across time and space.
They place great importance in showcasing their work in artist-run centres and non-commercial galleries across Turtle Island. They use accessible materials and work across video, sculpture, photography, sound and drawing. Oz's creative practice is deeply informed and interconnected with their work as an archivist; they enjoy experimenting with non-archival materials such as acidic paper, adhesives, photocopied photographs and lossy video. Information entropy/decay is always on their mind.