A Survey of Video Art from Vtape’s Collection
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - Thursday, July 31, 2014
EMMEDIA presents:
THE ALPHABETIC ORDER OF THINGS: A-H
Thursday July 31, 2014 @ 9:00 PM
EMMEDIA Parking Lot – 351 11 Ave SW
EMMEDIA is proud to present a summer series of outdoor screenings in our downtown parking lot, featuring works from prolific video artists in Canada and beyond. Curators Lindsay Sorell, Lowell Smith and Teresa Tam selected three screening programs using Vtape’s vast catalogue of videos. Vtape is Canada’s leading artist-run, not-for-profit distributor of video art that includes a diverse collection of work from the early 1970s to the present. Join us on Thursday nights as we survey contemporary and historical media artworks that experiment with the medium of video, while breaking barriers and leading the way for avant-garde video artists to come. Light refreshments will be provided as we enjoy the summer night!
A-H
Curated by Lindsay Sorell
July 31 @ 9 – 10PM
I am attracted to the slow long shot; a shot closer to the way we look around us in routine life, a shot at commercial entertainment and a search for something dirtier, more realistic. Sometimes I sit in my kitchen and literally just stare at the table, as if it will ground me, show me I am still here. I have even taken to lying on my bed for a while with my eyes open when I get home from work. Sometimes it takes long slow minutes for a feeling to settle into that deep part of your stomach. Sometimes it takes time for a joke to be revealed or for it to recede into seriousness.
About the curator:
Lindsay Sorell graduated from the Alberta College of Art + Design’s Drawing program in 2012. She recently curated and edited EMMEDIA’s (Calgary) online publication FORTUNE COOKIES: Articles on the future of art, participated as an artist-in-residence with The New Gallery (Calgary) in collaboration with the Calgary Society of Animated Objects, held a series of guest lectures in her bedroom under the name BEDTalks, facilitated a children’s Fluxus workshop at The Banff Centre, and currently lectures on the history of cheese at Janice Beaton Fine Cheese (Calgary).
SCREENING PROGRAM:
Sackville, I’m Yours….
Colin Campbell | 1972 | 14:40 mins
An amusing portrait of an Art Star, toughing it out in rural New Brunswick.
The Optionist
Sylvie Boisseau and Frank Westermeyer | 2004 | 04:30 mins
“I am a free person. I want to know, it’s like this now, but it could also be different. Everything’s possible for me. I could go everywhere, I can do anything, all woman suit me…“, says the daydreaming protagonist. He sits on a stone sculpture in a park and talks to himself, talks to an absent opposite: no contractions, everything is wonderful: The possibilities opening up, the imaginary as a phantasmatic cloud, hovers as a perfect state around this optionist, since a realization is not an option anyway. What is phantasmatic thus cannot be disturbed by the real.
Shrivel
Oliver Husain | 2005 | 08:20 mins
Eclectic scenery/ here in Karawaci / green trees sway in the breeze / around Taman Paris / A place for families! / Spend some eventless days / in old Taman Ingles / or hear the Muezzin call / in Taman Espanol // Oh, how I long to be / back in Karawaci !
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(Compositing panoramic views of a highly stylized residential area near Jakarta with iconic scenes of a globalized lifestyle.)
Keywords: Versailles windmills suburbia hysteria bad hair Indonesian mystery soap
Thinking About the State of America While Listening to Mariah Carey
Tad Hozumi | 2009 | 03:18 mins
This single channel video is a recording of the artist listening to the hit Mariah Carey song, Fly Like a Bird. The work explores the relationship between artist, artwork, and audience, by showing how even the simplest act of consuming art can become a creative and revealing act of its own.
Storm
Kyath Battie | 2011 | 11:46 mins
Storm begins and ends with atmospheric environments (ie: skies, rain, clouds, snow, lightning) of Playstation videogames. Part eco-disaster film, part personal barometer: Storm looks at the weather, in all its simulated beauty from pixelated chunks to seamless serenity.
1/4 Moon
David Askevold | 1986 | 08:40 mins
1/4 Moon is an impromptu tape shot with a Sony 8 AF camera while it rained in a barn yard at Clam Harbor, N.S. A local musician, Allan Pavio played an improvised piece on a violin with a black dog, a white horse, a sheep and chickens present. Most edits are in-camera and some sound looping during post-production was used.
