2011 | THURSDAY JUNE 23
6-8pm
Offsite Exhibition Opening Reception
303 East 8th Avenue
June 23-July 23, Tues-Sat 12-5pm
Curated by Sarah Todd and Amy Kazymerchyk
Ben Rivers, Slow Action | 2010 | 44 min | 4-Channel 16mm/HD Projection | UK
Slow Action ties together four 16mm films shot on distinct islands: Gunkanjima, Japan; Tuvalu; Lanzarote, Canary Islands; and Somerset, UK. Existing somewhere between ethnographic study, documentary and fiction, Rivers’ fabricates hyperbolic utopias that appear as possible future mini-societies.
8:30pm, 110min
Ellie Ga, The Fortunetellers | 2008-2010 | 60min | Multi-Media Performance | USA
The Fortunetellers is an autobiographical narrative performance based on a five-month exploration Ga spent aboard Tara, a research sailboat frozen in the ice near the North Pole. The Tara had been intentionally inserted into the ice in Eastern Siberia, where it drifted with the movement of the ice pack. Ga was the only artist invited to join the expedition, boarding for what would be the last winter and the release from the ice. The work superimposes live storytelling, fortunetelling, weather forecasting and oceanographic research with the daily-routines of the researchers aboard the Tara to explore the terms and rituals of daily life in the Arctic.
Marina Roy, Mineral Intelligence | 2010 | 10min | HD | Canada
Setting out from the mineral and cellular levels, and moving on to cultural production and myth, Mineral Intelligence focuses on the encounter between “nature” and “culture” and how human and natural life interpenetrate one another.
Marianna Milhorat, L’Internationale | 2010 | 9:10min | 16mm/SD | USA
Situated in a foreign landscape, futuristic-looking factories and steam harvesting geothermal boreholes serve as beacons of familiarity in the face of an uncertain future.
Nimalan Yoganathan, Soundscapes of Inukjuak | 2011 | 30min | Multi-Channel Sound Performance | Canada
Soundscapes of Inukjuak is a structured improvisational performance that utilizes raw and processed field recordings gathered from a two-month artist residency in Inukjuak, Nunavik. Yoganathan complements the natural sounds of the Inukjuak environment, such as kayak construction, Inuit carvers at work, and the inherent rhythms of the Inuktitut language, with a hardware synthesizer, rhythm sampler, and circuit-bent electronics.
2011 | FRIDAY JUNE 24
5pm, 60min
Artist Talk: Nimalan Yoganathan, Inukjuak Sound Map
The Inukjuak Sound Map aims to create an archival database of the recordings made for Soundscapes of Inukjuak. The sound map also includes soundwalks led and recorded by Inuit teenagers. The map has the potential to be used by environmental researchers to study how soundscapes are transformed by technological development and global warming.
7pm, 100min
Otolith Group, Otolith II | 2007 | 47min | SD | UK
Otolith II explores the affective pressures exerted upon inhabitants residing within contrasting and competing versions of the ‘city of tomorrow.’ Chandigarh, the product of Corbusier’s 1963 architectural vision and social plan is juxtaposed with contemporary scenes of Mumbai’s mega-slums, contemplating a new state of becoming through its dwellers’ creative solutions for survival.
Hito Steyerl, In Free Fall | 2010 | 32min | HD | Germany
In Free Fall is the story of the current global economic crisis told through an aeroplane junkyard in the Californian desert. Captured in three parts – ‘Before the Crash’, ‘After the Crash’ and ‘Crash’ – the film charts the rapid descent, obsolescence and destruction of the commodity form.
Amie Siegel, Black Moon | 2010 | 20min | 16mm/HD | USA
Siegel’s Black Moon is a partial remake of Louis Malle’s 1975 film of the same title. Set in the post-apocalyptic landscape, armed female revolutionaries wander the streets of foreclosed housing developments.
9:30pm, 60min
Aleksandra Domanović, 19:30 | 2011 | 12min | HD | Germany
19:30 is an anthology of television news-music from the geographic region of ex-Yugoslavia. It is also an ongoing collection of commissioned remixes, edits and new versions of the original news tracks. The adaptations are specific to electronic dance music and aspire to sublimate the musical, historical and psychological value of news-music through the local symbolic value of techno in Ex-Yugoslavia.
Music from CBC and ex-Yugolslav National Television Station ID music will be remixed and performed live by Basketball, Brady Cranfield, Joshua Stevensen and Julian Hou.
Curated by Anu Sahota and Amy Kazymerchyk
2011 | SATURDAY JUNE 25
5-7pm
Transcription Listening Lounge: Anu Sahota, RCI Radio Documentaries
Cocktails and mail-order recordings of radio documentaries aired on Radio Canada International, the shortwave service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Excerpts of “Transcription” recordings will include: The Government Store (1983), Stories of the Indian and Eskimo, (date unknown), and Literature Canadiense Contemporánea (1984).
8pm, 115min
Geoffrey Pugen, Bridge Kids | 2010 | 12min | HD | Canada
Bridge Kids connects research on J.B. Rhine and the history of ESP/Parapsychology with science fiction drama portraying adolescent reincarnation.
Deborah Stratman, …These Blazeing Starrs! | 2011 | 14min |16mm | USA
Ever since comets have been recorded, they have augured catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination.
Giorgio Magnanensi, teatro dell’udito V (TDU V) | 2011 | 20min | A/V Performance | Canada
Magnanensi feeds sine waves, saw tooth waves, square waves and feedback through a Tektronix dual channel oscilloscope to create a ‘theatre for the ears.
Sarah Biagini, I Swim Now | 2010 | 8:50min | 16mm | USA
Violet Jessop was a passenger on board all three sister-ships of the White Star Line–the Olympic, the Titanic, and the Britannic. Through optical techniques and manipulations, I Swim Now evokes the brutality of Jessop’s unique experience with each ship’s wreckage at sea.
Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong, End Transmission | 2010 | 15min | HD | Netherlands
Strange alien messages are sent to humanity, accompanied by ominous images that poetically warn of Earth’s impending re-colonization.
SLAB 5 Experimental Theremin Orchestra | 2011 | 20min | A/V Performance | Canada
A symphony of eerie sounds and visual noise performed on custom built instruments by: Rob Symmers, David Leith, Kate Rissiek. Ban Wei, Phoebe Heintzman Hope, Leslie Kennah, Jennifer Roworth, Ricarda McDonald, Oliver Nickels, Wynne Palmer, Ryan Amadore, Julie Andreyev + Tom, Simon Overstall, Joel Tong and Brook Lotzkar.
2011 | SUNDAY JUNE 26
1pm, 90min
Artist Talk: Frederick Brummer, SLAB 5 Experimental Theremin Orchestra and Giorgio Magnanensi
An open discussion and demonstration of the hybrid electronic forms employed by these artists in their performance, installation and improvisation practices.
8pm, 95min
Artavazd Pelechian
Curated by Marie-Hélène Tessier and Amy Kazymerchyk
Artavazd Pelechian (b. 1938) is an acclaimed Armenian director and film theorist. His work is recognized for its poetic aura that mixes archival footage with images of everyday life. Pelechian is renowned for his work in “distance montage,” a synthetic technique that combines the perception of depth with oncoming entities to construct an overall sense of unity. His work seeks to address the violence of the twentieth century: its mass migrations, wars and dictatorships. At present, Pelechian lives and works in Moscow.
We (Menk) | 1969 | 25min | 35mm | Armenia
We is the lyrical story of Armenia and its people. Under the gaze of archival footage, the work details a fierce desire for sharing, recognition, and universal peace.
The Seasons (Tarva Yeghanaknere ou Vremena goda)| 1972 | 30min | 35mm | Armenia
Departing from its volcanic origins, all the way to the industrial era, Pelechian displays the Armenian social body in free fall, courageously attempting to salvage its nomadic destiny.
Our Century (Nach Vek)| 1982-1990 | 30min | 35mm | Armenia
Our Century excavates the memory of the past century and uncovers a narrative composed of tyranny, genocide and imperial conquest.
In the Beginning (Nacalo ou Skisb) | 1967 | 10min | 35mm | Armenia
Dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution (1917), In the Beginning is composed of a series of revolts, military marches, emblematic figures, explosions, corpses and machines. It presents history as a sequence of repetitive shocks.
2011 | MONDAY JUNE 27
7:30pm, 60min
Offsite Presentation by at the 1131 Howe St.
Hank Bull, The Time Dilation Machine | 1971-1975 | 60min | Super8 and 16mm | Canada
The Time Dilation Machine was a device for traveling through the seven dimensions of time and space, devised by HP (Hank Bull and Patrick Ready) in 1975. Bull and Ready present live narration and musical accompaniment to a collection Bull’s unedited 8mm and 16mm reels.
Spadina Drag| 1971-73 | 11min
Kids in the Park| 1973 | 4min
HP Concept| 1973-76 | 10min
Swing| 1975 | 3:50min
The Distillation of Alcohol| 1976 | 6:20min
The Egg of the Homunculus (aka Relican Movie)| 1976 | 6:20min
Rembrandt and Goya| 1976 | 4min
The HP Sedan Bottle, with sound| 1974/75 | 15min
INSTALLATIONS
Anu Sahota, Network Service | 2011 (1950–1980) | Multi-Channel Installation and Projection | Canada
Through the use of archival material from CBC Television British Columbia (CBUT-TV) (1950s-1980s), Network Service explores the ways in which a public service role for television has historically been bred through cultural programming.
Frederick Brummer, Dimension X | 2011 | Interactive Installation | Canada
Dimension X draws on VIVO’s 40-year archive of media production equipment for inspiration and material. Viewing it in the present and in retrospect, the collection reveals a common thread: transcendence. The basic elements of electronic media allow us to perceive things in other times, places, scales, expanding the scope of human perception. The distinction between light, sound, and magnetism are blurred in the translation of the temporal, spatial, and functional aspects of these old forms.
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