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VIVO2010: Safe Assembly VIVO 2010: Safe Assembly
PAST EVENTS
Primer Thursday, February 4th - 7:30PM Fake Sleep + VIVO Media Arts Centre present
The first Fake Sleep of the new year will take place on January 29th at VIVO. This incarnation will include live performances by: SOLARS - textured guitar drone duo EMPTY LOVE + SADE SADE - analog synth and feedback drone duet SCANT INTONE - solo computer drone THE WORKER - pure drone power doors at 9, first artist plays at 10 sharp.
*Jerk* Presented by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and grunt gallery *Jan 21–24, 8pm* *VIVO Media Arts Centre* Gisèle Vienne’s Jerk is based on the chilling text of Dennis Cooper, an author deemed “the most dangerous writer in America” by the Village Voice. It is a story told from the vantage point of David Brooks, the real life accomplice to Texas serial killer Dean Corll who was responsible for the deaths of more than 25 teenage boys in the early 1970s. Devised as a play within a play, the audience takes the role of a psychology class visiting Brooks (played by Jonathan Capdevielle) as he serves his life sentence in prison. Fascination, humour, madness and sheer terror are melded in his puppet show recreations of the gruesome, sexually charged murders. Jerk is theatre at its starkest, a harrowing journey into the most hidden corners of the human psyche. RED76: The YouTube School for Social Politics
Presented by VIVO Media Arts Centre, Studio 1202 & DIM Cinema OFF SITE | Screening & live A/V performance | Saturday January 16 2009 | 7:30pm | $10 suggested donation, includes food and drink | Studio 1202 (rsvp for details) Mediation, Self Marginalization and Post Politics in Protest Media, Robby Herbst | 2009 | 60mins | dv Robby Herbst and Sade Sade in person The YouTube School for Social Politics (YTSSP) invites historians, artists, and theorists to construct passages of historical inquiry through assemblages of YouTube clips. In an increasingly invisible society we are each a consumer, creator, and clearing house for knowledge, just as much as we are receiver, producer, and disposer of material goods. These notions of surplus knowledge play a central role within the YTSSP. Scattered throughout YouTube lie countless personal and collective points of view and scattered historical moments. By arranging segments of documentaries, personal missives, family films, newsreels and music videos, new light is shed on the sociopolitical landscape of history past and history present. Robby Herbst is part of the editorial collective of the Los Angeles based publication, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Also an artist and writer, Robby's work looks at the intersection of theory, beauty and social upheaval. His work examines both what forms and images are created in the act of protest and how it is influenced by the world of art. Robbie will be screening and discussing his YTSSP essay in an informal and convivial environment. Also this evening will be the debut of Sade Sade's YTSSP inspired composition, War Requiem. A meditation on musical and lyrical forms of opposition to War, War Requiem layers video featuring Benjamin Britten, CRASS, John Cage and Arvo Part to create an original sound work which acts both as a study and a response to these artists. Complimentary light food and beverages will be available, but b.y.o.b. is welcome. DIM Cinema Fake Sleep + VIVO Media Arts Centre present
FAKE SLEEP will return to VIVO on Saturday December 19th. This incarnation will include performances by: LES BEYOND - guitar dreams from montreal EMPRESS - ambience from a boiler room THEE HOLEE SEE - ethereal haunting sounds EMPTY LOVE - analog nightmare rumblings $7 DOORS - 8 PM SHOW - 9PM
“It was the first great video installation, in which television was transformed into what it was really meant to be, an extension of the easel painting, a trompe l’oeil in the middle of the living room that adorned life, instead of interfering in it.” -Rick Moody, On “The Yule Log” Ten artists were invited to create their interpretation of the "Yule Log", the looping video of a burning fireplace broadcast on television over Christmas Day. The original Yule Log was created in 1966, conceived by the station manager of WPIX Channel 11 in New York, and has since expanded to be widely broadcast on various networks throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring works by Aaron Carpenter, Alastair Condon, Meesoo Lee, Jonathan Middleton, Elizabeth Milton, Alexander Muir, Asa Mori, Kathleen Ritter, Sam Scott and Wiley Wiggins. Curated by Sharon Bradley. The exhibition opening is held in conjunction with our annual holiday party and fundraiser. Come eat our food, drink our libations, marvel at our renovations, and dance on our floors! Merriment is guaranteed.
Willy Le Maitre Presented by VIVO Media Arts Centre + Interactive Futures 09 Edia is a real-time narrated media presentation by Willy Le Maitre displayed in stereographic format. Edia explores the topologies of information space. While an individual is situated in a body, it's counterpart, the dividual, is situated in it's bodies relations, communication, emotings. The work details the notion of a distributed self and it's relative psycho geography, encompassing the non euclidean space of networked culture in general. Edia is an entity that distributes the self in a constellation of points around the globe. The points are personified by 'friends' in dialog. The entity's interconnected points can fluidly scale to encompass vast dimensions in time and space. Edia's molecular constitution is bonded by audiovisual channels that are both it's memory and links to the possible in sequences of event. It's amalgamations of inter subjective perspective visualize reality as an artifact of communication. Willy Le Maitre has created media art works since 1988. He has been oriented to video as a live form that has served as a pivot point in collaborations between himself, musicians, writers, and visual artists. Currently based in Toronto. His work has been presented, among other places, at The New Museum, the Kitchen, FIMA in Victoriaville Quebec., ICMC in Banff, Canada, and ISEA. His work has received numerous grants and awards including LIFE 3.0 competition for artificial life artworks in Madrid and The Telefilm Canada prize at the Images Festival of Independent Film, 2000, Toronto
VERB WOMAN October 21 –23, 2009 Final Summation & Reception, October 23, 6 –7 p.m Open Wed- Fri 4-7 p.m Margaret Dragu, aka VERB WOMAN creates 3 days of Performance-aktions about forgetting and disintegration of memory; disputed histories and conflicting eye witness accounts. She uses collected verbs from abstract everyday gestures and Alzheimer patients to degrade layers of technology and history. Like sand slipping through an open hand… For this occasion La Dragu is collaborating with the city's most engaging Performance and media artists. VERB WOMAN three-day dance of forgetting ends with a final summation with special guest Paul Couillard Friday October 23, between 6-7pm. Curated by Velveeta Krisp Margaret Dragu is celebrating her third decade as a performance artist. She has presented here work in galleries, museums, theatres, nightclubs, libraries, universities, and site-specific venues including parks, botanical gardens, and public parade routes across Canada, the west and east coast of the Unites States, and in Western Europe. Margaret is also a film/video artist, writer, choreographer, fitness instructor/personal trainer, and an extremely famous cleaning lady. This exhibition is part of LIVE
MORE ENLIGHTENMENT David Cunningham Kathleen Ritter Sylvain Sailly Zoe Tissandier Amy Zion
September 10—October 3, 2009 SWARM Opening September 10, 7pm Artist Talk September 23, 7:30pm Gallery Hours Wed—Sat | 1pm—7pm
MORE ENLIGHTENMENT gathers five Vancouver artists — together their work builds a set of possibilities for thinking about the imminent. Through Proposition, Diagram, Contradiction, Reason and Action, this exhibition hopes to catalyse a conversation about how we can give form to our disenchantment.
“In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignity. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.” —Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer & Adorno
A VIVO Media Arts Centre + New Forms Festival presentation | Curated by Kika Thorne | On September 23 at 7pm, there is a panel discussion with the artists and curator moderated by Francisco-Fernando Granados | On September 16 at 6:30pm the exhibition partially serves as ambience and obstacle for the VIVO AGM | VIVO Media Arts Centre is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts | BC Arts Council | City of Vancouver | PAARC | SWARM and You Video In Studios gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, B.C. Arts Council and the City of Vancouver.
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