Sunday April 26
7:30-9:30pm
Vanessa Renwick and Daniel Menche: The Possibility of Nature, Hope in Pure Sound, and Faith in Magnetism (Offsite- Pacific Cinematheque)
Following the screening of Hope and Prey, their 3 channel video projection and live sound performance project, Portland artists Vanessa Renwick and Daniel Menche present an intimate artist talk and screening of works that contextualize their collaboration. Vanessa’s interest in place, relationships between bodies, landscapes, and borders collides with Daniel’s dedication to music that expresses the undisciplined purity of emotion that strives for one goal: vehement beauty.
Vanessa Renwick, Food is a Weapon | 1998 | 4:00mins | Super8/DV | USA
Vanessa Renwick, Olympia | 1984/1998 | 11:00mins | Super8/DV | USA
Vanessa Renwick, 9 is a Secret | 2002 | 6:00mins | Film/Video | USA
Vanessa Renwick, Portrait #1: Cascadia Terminal | 2005 | 6:00mins | 16mm | USA
Vanessa Renwick, Portrait#2: Trojan | 2006 | 5:00mins | 35mm/DV | USA
Vanessa Renwick, Portrait #3: House of Sound | 2008 | 9:00mins | 35mm/DV | USA
Vanessa Renwick and Daniel Menche, Heavy Weight Boxing Championship of the Year 1940 | 2003 | Nitrate 35mm/DV with live sound performance | USA
Vanessa Renwick and Daniel Menche, Rub a Dub Dub | 16mm | 8:00mins | Dual DV and Live Sound Performance (documentation) | 2004 | USA
Daniel Menche, Fulmination | 2008 | 20:00mins | Digital Images and Live Sound Performance | USA
program running time: 2:00:00
curated by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk and Gabriel Solomon
co-presented with DIM, screening at the Pacific Cinematheque www.dimcinema.ca