Cindy Mochizuki: WAKE January 12th to 16th, 2006 Opening: Thursday, January 12th, 2006 @ 7pm
Wake is a three-channel video installation that revolves around a contemporary, fictional, murder mystery that takes place in Vancouver's Hastings Park (now the Pacific National Exhibition Grounds) . This area was once referred to as gThe Pool,h a holding pen for Japanese Canadians during WWII.
The short video vignettes in Wake formally utilize the Japanese literary form of the palm-of-hand story: a character-driven, short narrative that has no plot and leaves one with a sense of longing or desire.
A Detective (Hiro Kanagawa), interrogates a Witness (Maiko Bae Yamamoto) who is called forth to make a testimony around the mysterious death of an elderly woman. The unsettling effects of historical trauma haunt both the detective and the witness. They are caught in the paralysis of a subject that cannot be articulated through language .
Wake explores both the limits and possibilities of cultural memory, and the tenuous relationship between remembering and forgetting.
Revisit the '70s and see original video by some of the original Video In members.
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Cue Up: JANUARY Thursday, January 26, 2006 @ 8pm
Special guest: Colin Browne
Well-known filmmaker and poet, Colin Browne, will be the guest at Cue-Up on January 26, 2006 at Video In. Prior to the eopen-screeningf portion of the event, Colin Browne will discuss eAltarf, his current film work in progress. Well known as a documentarian and historian (he authored Fugitive Events: A History of Filmmaking in BC, 1899-1970) he will also touch on the use of archival footage: stills and moving pictures. Colin Browne is the co-founder of Praxis Screenwritersf Workshop, the Kootenay School of Writing and he is active in the Audio-Visual Heritage Association of BC. He is currently an educator at SFUfs School for the Contemporary Arts. His poetry collection, Ground Water, was nominated for a Governor Generalfs Award for Poetry (2002). His most recent film, 'Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye' (2003), was broadcast on CBC 'Opening Night' and screened at the VIFF.
Submissions 8:00pm and screenings 8:30pm
Socializing to follow.
Video-Blim: Slow Dance Party! Saturday, February 11th, 2006 @ 9pm
Featuring 15 artists doing 15-minute "love song" sets. Complete with Bubble machine and balloons galore! A real treat for Lawrence Welk fans! This is a formal attire affair.
East Coast Animation Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 @ 8pm
American animator Trixy Sweetvittles (Blue's Clues, Dreamlover Fondue) once declared that she could always recognize Atlantic Canadian animation because of its confessional, heart felt content, frequently paired with a hand made aesthetic.
The program spans a wide range of techniques (including clay, cartoon, collage, and puppet) from a diverse group of independent artists. Yet, each piece boldly offers an unapologetic documentation of personal struggles and triumphs. All of the artists take full advantage of the very personal, often playful, creative process of animation.
It is extremely rare for Maritime artists to bring their work directly to a west coast audience, leapfrogging over the broadcasters and curators in Upper Canada. Yet, each of these shorts was handpicked exclusively for this Vancouver screening. 18 pieces were assembled for the show, including a few world premieres.
Since it incorporates the work of over a dozen filmmakers, the program will especially appeal to film enthusiasts with a short attention span. Those who dare to behold the screening will be thrilled, chilled, amused and astonished by Atlantic Canadian animation.
Book Launch and Readings - "Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media Exploring Visual and Digital Culture" Saturday, February 18th, 2006 @ 7pm
IMAG (Indigenous Media Arts Group) hosts the launch of "Transference, Tradition, Technology: Native New Media Exploring Visual and Digital Culture" co-produced with the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Walter Phillips Gallery (The Banff Centre of the Arts) and thanks to the additional financial assistance of Canadian Heritage and Canada Council for the Arts. Contributors of the book will be in attendance for a public reading!!!
Cue Up: February 2006 Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 Guest: Multicultural Youth Circle Action
MY Circle Action (Multicultural Youth Circle Action) believes that everyone has a story. They have been presenting these stories and breaking down myths concerning multicultural youth through video and through workshops. The members of this group will be discussing their work and presenting recent videos, mediatosis and Redefining Canadian. MY Circle Action challenges the representation of immigrant, refugee and First Nations youth in the media. They offer alternative youth perspectives that go way beyond nationalism and migratory status.
The Damned Saturday, February 25th, 2006 @ 7:00pm, 9:00pm, midnight (3 shows)
"THE DAMNED in 3D" is a slow-paced, one man costume drama in the 3rd
dimension using conventions of cinematic lycanthropy- the transformation of
a man into primal animal- to illustrate a man's split into two selves and
eventually self-destruction. Throughout the film, the character becomes
increasingly paranoid and dislocated from reality, retreating to a secluded
cabin. He struggles and enshrines himself within an elk head and bearskin
resulting in an unusual costume, as he simultaneously becomes predator and
prey. Yonge's performances with these props are better understood as
performance art, rather than theatrical acting.
$7-10 at the door
VI Originals is a bi-monthly series where library footage is brought out of the archives to reveal Video In's strong historical past in edgy and controversial video production. This afternoon affair is a casual event where people can view footage on different monitors or simply chat with some of the original members of Video In.
Sara Kolster and Derek Holzer
Touring from the Netherlands, Sara and Derek are presenting work based on the intersections of sound and image.
Friday, March 10th, 2006 @ 8pm – resonanCITY: live audiovisual performance
Both Holzer and Kolster find inspiration in the history of experimental cinema and electro acoustic music, as well as in contemporary "live cinema", improv and microsound practices. Their performance work centers around the use of photographic transparencies, found objects, field recordings and sparse instrumentals to create layers of interrelated sound and image.
Sunday, March 12th, 2006 @ 2pm - Soundtransit.nl
SoundTransit.nl is an online, collaborative soundscape project by Sara Kolster, Marc Boon and Derek Holzer dedicated to field recording and phonography. On this site, you can BOOK a sonic transit through a wide range of different locations recorded from around the world, or you can SEARCH the database for specific sounds by keyword, artist, country or location. A presentation of this project can include an introduction to field recording and phonography, a discussion on the importance of open licenses such as Creative Commons, or a technical discussion of the structure of the website.
Thursday, March 16th, 2006 @ 8pm - visibleSOUND/audibleIMAGE
This lecture and screening, made up of "historic" and contemporary works from the collection of Montevideo/Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (Amsterdam), investigates the interrelation of what has often considered to be two separate disciplines: sound and image.
Works shown will include:
1) Steina & Woody Vasulka: Violin Power [US][1978]
2) Steina & Woody Vasulka: BAD [US][1979]
3) Servaas: 4 Poems [NL][1981]
4) Matthew Schlanger: Lizard Hearts [US][1986]
5) Nicolas Provost: Papillon d'Amour [BE][2003]
6) Jan van Nuenen: SET_4 [NL][2003]
7) Bas van Koolwijk: five [NL][2002]
8) Derek Holzer & Sara Kolster: resonanCITY [NL] [2005]
Saturday, March 18th and Sunday, March 19th, 2006 @ 11-4pm both days
A two-day Pure-Data workshop based on Sara and Derek's working style.
$60 for members, $95 for non-members
Email event@videoinstudios.com to register. Classes have a limited capacity. Workshop Details: http://www.videoinstudios.com/programming_details.php
About the artists: Sara Kolster [NL 1978] is a visual artist with a background in design. Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film; capturing details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories of these environments. She uses different strategies, from time-based media (video, film, photography) to appropriated research methods belonging to different observational disciplines (journalism, documentary & archeology).
Derek Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound artist with a background in radio and streaming media technologies. His work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, networked collaboration strategies, experiments in improvisational sound and on the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data.
Their work resonanCITY™ has been performed live in Holland, Brazil, the former Yugoslavia, the Baltic States and at the Transmediale 05 festival in Berlin. resonanCITY™ also took the Second Prize at the 11th International WRO Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland in May 2005.
Cue Up: MARCH
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 Guest: Downtown Eastside Current will feature videos by desmedia, Quin Martins, Berge Tashdjian and Erin de Zwart.
desmedia (downtown eastside media) is a collective artists committed to working on engaged collaborative video and visual arts projects with
residents of the downtown eastside. In May 2000, desmedia started their activities by running an ongoing central workshop once a week as part of the regular program of the Carnegie Community Centre, at Main & Hastings Streets.
After three years at the Carnegie desmedia moved the workshop to other spaces to explore a more street level interaction at the Interurban Gallery and a storefront, 327 Carrall St. In addition to this desmedia run satellite workshops at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, Gallery Gachet, Oppenheimer Park, and other centres in the area as well as with groups out of town. The workshops utilize painting, video, photography, text, and related media in an atmosphere of facilitation and support provided by the collective. They explore various ways of documenting life, histories and the vitality and creativity of the area as well as providing an opportunity for the productive possibilities of self expression, reflection and self representation.
Submissions 8:00pm and screenings 8:30pm
Socializing to follow.
Groupe Intervention Video (GIV) Screening
April 8th, 2006
Doors @ 8pm, Show @ 8:30pm
From Montreal, GIV presents video that represents personal stories told at the intersections of history, memory, fact and fiction.
Anne Golden and Dayna McLeod will represent the following artists and their video work at Video In Studios for GIV's 30th anniversary tour:
" Traces by Joanna Empain
" Kareo K-Mov by Fédérick Belzile
" Hooping 2 by Diyan Achjadi
" The Pink Mask by Tammy Forsythe
" Film Muet / Silent Movie by Freda Guttman
" Natonosferatu by Tamara Vukov
" Lessons in Conquest by Ariel Lightningchild
" Stravaig by Nikki Forrest
" Dad, Don't Be Mad by Dayna Mcleod
Founded in 1975, Groupe Intervention Video (GIV) is an artist run centre that acquires, distributes, exhibits and produces independent videos directed by women.
SIGNAL + NOISE is a laser blast explosion of sonic dissidence and video
trickery, dragging your brain kicking and screaming into a new realm of
media art. Working outside boundaries and against classical hierarchical
structures of stuffy old art festivals, SIGNAL + NOISE strives to provide
contemporary media for the people. The definition of "people?" Artists of
all disciplines, independent curators, children in wizard costumes, hot
dog vendors, old men, ladies in sequins... you name it. We welcome
artistry from across the gamut, slashing through the typicality of
tradition and highlighting the truly daring and original. We are a place
where established artists and your neighbor's dog's video camera unite, at
a central location called Video In Studios.
Video In has long been known as Vancouver's artist-run media center, a
place which provides both media access and education, as well as a
Studio/gallery space for events at varied as video installations, film
screenings, righteous video dance parties (Muchmusic styles, without the
Oh Henrys) and rock shows.
SIGNAL + NOISE headquarters is nestled in a freezing cold office within
Video In Studios, and every year a group of artists work their asses off
to produce Vancouver's only underground multimedia festival.
The Escape Artists Society (TEAS) Fundraiser: THE QUICK AND THE DIRTY
Saturday, May 13th, 2006 @ 9pm
This will be an exciting evening of truly art damaged entertainment with
exciting little treats and giveaways- please bring all of your friends!
T.E.A.S is Vancouver's hottest new non-profit arts society- we aim to
present works of media, music, visual and performance art in predominantly
unusual locations.
Even more systems (14+), 4 projectors, more televisions (12 +), less
couches (but nicer ones), 3 DJ's (CFRO's own PRIVATE DANCERS!), one
tent, and more than one girl guaranteed! A fundraiser for Video In
Sega master system, Atari 2600, Intellivision, Nintendo, Famicom,
Superfamicom, SNS, Nintendo 64, Playstation 1 and 2, genesis, and A
WHOLE WACK more...
If you have a system you want to bring? Let Emma know ahead of time and we'll
try to set up a spot for you. Have games? Bring them! (Label them
please!)
Video games start at 8pm. We managed a full 12 hour marathon last
time.... we ll see what happens....
$3-20 sliding scale.
psst. pass it on.
Cue Up: MAY
Thursday, May 25th, 2006 @ 8pm
Guest: George Faulkner
George has been skateboarding for 22 years. It was Seylynn that invoked George's curiosity about capturing still and moving images, which eventually led him to search through a timeline of 27 years of footage and photos in order to create a twenty-seven minute piece about the park in which he grew up.
Submissions 8:00pm and screenings 8:30pm
Socializing to follow.
Project 8 Collective: Screenings and Performances June 10th, 2006 Doors: 7:00pm, Show: 8:00pm
The Project8 Collective has helped reinvigorate an old film making practice by doing super-8mm film workshops at Cineworks and The Purple Thistle with artists from various backgrounds. The result equals an array of film works that borrow eclectically from multiple genres.
Celebrating the DIY movement of celluloid, artists have developed, shot, edited and hand-processed their films, learning that compelling films can be made without labs and expensive equipment.
The Project8 Collective is a group of small-format filmmakers with an interest in developing our local film community by presenting an alternative to the mainstream narrative production industry. A culture of producers and viewers who take the medium of film into their own hands to allow for freer creative expression in a fellowship of collaboration, skill sharing and support.
Film/Audio/Performance Works by: Marty Ballentyne, Chris Brabant, Meredith Carter, Amanda Christie, James Diamond, Sextraterrestrials, ben donoghue, Flatgrey and Hungry Ghost, Sacha Fink, Kathleen Gowman, Charlie Hagan, kamea, Tliimu, Alex MacKenzie, Davis McKenzie, Ian-Bob McTilstra, Julie Saragosa, Andrea Schmidt, Michael V. Smith, Master T, Kai Ling Xue, Mark Yuen
The Knitting Circle Tuesday, June 13th, 2006, 7pm to 9pm
Guest: Irene Loughlin
The Knitting Circle is...
A stimulating (free) monthly Performance Art discussion/support group co-presented by Video In and The Escape Artists Society (TEAS): it originally began in May 2005 as a co-production between The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S) and the Western Front Performance Art Program, but now has a new home at Video In- so we get to (and knit) on very sexy black vinyl couches now!
We discuss current performance trends, issues that are affecting performance art, the work of performance artists- past and present, and a variety of other topics that affects this discipline including "performance for video" as a genre in itself and the place of technology in works of live performance art.
Activities also include guest speakers, improvisation workshops, watching video documentation, and readings. Everyone is welcome to attend (students, established artists, emerging artists or anyone interested in performance art).
This is your chance to become part of a wonderful support network -if you are a performance artist, wanting to become a performance artist, or a lover of this exciting discipline.
Everyone is welcome!
Please bring your knitting (or a handcraft you enjoy doing). See you there!
Dates for 2006: June 13, July 11, Sept 12, Oct 10, Nov 14, Dec 12
Video-Blim: Angry Little Monsters!
Saturday, June 17th, 2006 @ 9pm $5-15 doors at 9pm
A carnal exhibition of collaborative works by local video, performance, and noise artists. Angry Little Monsters peers into the repressed psyche of children and their gutteral reaction to an unimaginative reality. Obsessively controlled and pharmaceutically manipulated, these angry little monsters will react.
Featuring the Audio-Visual Agendas of:
- Holzkopf (no-input audio prozac for self-hating straight edge youth brigade)
- THE RITA (Gillman inspired and driven harsh noise)
- Baboon Torture Division (audio-visual overload, superheroes, robots, donkey love)
- Ian Wyatt (mystical states, cathartic experiences, physics of sound)
- MilfWolf (1981 re-visited, noiseaoke AC/DC style, laptop, effects, walkie-talkie)
- SevenThirtyThree(&)One8Hundred(-) ("if youre going to be late...call")
- Taskmaster (analog tape destruction)
and more to be announced!
Featuring the Multi-Media Mayhem of:
- Pantaloggi (animation short scored by Lee Hutzulak)
- 8-Bit Theatre of Hypercreativity (video-gaming like every enfant terrible would have it)
- Sachiyo Takahashi & Noel Macul (interactive performance/installation "compartment")
Lisa Steele + Kim Tomczak: From Concept to Creation Master Class Saturday, June 24th, 2006 @ 1pm
Video In Studios is offering as part of their Artist In Residence program a master class with Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak. Participants should be seriously engaged in a creative practice. 3-5 artists will present their work-in-progress to Lisa and Kim for feedback and critique.
Participants in this Master Class will be actively engaged in a production of any genre.
Participants must come to the class with:
- A 1-2 page project description of the devloping piece.
- raw footage of a work in progress (10-15 minutes maximum)
Cost: $45 Members, $85 Non-Members.
Registration: To register send an email to event@videoinstudios.com with a brief description of your background and current project description.
SVES Annual General Meeting Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 @ 7:30 to 9:30
Find the list of interested and potential board members here.
Cue Up: JUNE
Thursday, June 29th, 2006 @ 8pm Guest: Claudia Medina
Claudia is a filmmaker, writer, and educator born in Powell River, BC. She received her BA in sociology and Latin American studies at Simon Fraser University and went on to work as a consultant for Latin American themed documentaries. Claudia has also worked in community development/organizing for non profit organizations. Her filmmaking deals with the stories and influences of her tri-national background (Mexico, Italy, Canada) and how they are transposed onto the Canadian cultural landscape. Claudia currently dedicates herself to filmmaking and facilitating youth to tell their own stories through this medium as the film program director of the Projections digital film mentorship program in the downtown east side of Vancouver.
Submissions 8:00pm and screenings 8:30pm
Socializing to follow.
Powell Street Festival: Spatial Poetics V July 8th, 2006
Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:00pm
Featuring premieres of collaborative pieces by:
ARETHA AOKI & SCOTT MALIN
WORLD TEA PARTY (IN ASSOCIATION WITH URASENKE TEA SCHOOL, VANCOUVER)
SEPIDEH SAII & MAYA ERSAN & JAIMIE ROBSON
Powell Street Festival Society and Video In present the fifth annual Spatial Poetics, an interdisciplinary event which celebrates collaboration, experimentation and innovation in the use of text, visuals, music, and performance by an eclectic line-up of artists. The end result will be a diverse collection of new works exploring community, identity, boundaries, and the nature of performance by emerging and established Asian Canadian artists, building on the successes of previous Spatial Poetics events.
Premiering new pieces will be three groups of talented and inventive artists: Vancouver-based dance artist Aretha Aoki will collaborate with visual artist Scott Malin in If Our Eyes Had Teeth, which explores scale and perspective through drawing and dance. Trolley Bus (aka Bryan Mulvihill) will facilitate a site-specific performance of a tea ceremony, otherwise known as World Tea Party, with members of the Urasenke Tea School, Vancouver. Sepideh Saii, Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson will present a piece that combines silhouette puppetry, animation, video and sound. Musician and media artist Lyndsay Sung will curate a selection of video shorts by Asian artists from Canada, the US, and internationally.
This is the opening event for the 30TH ANNUAL POWELL STREET FESTIVAL, held in Oppenheimer Park and the Firehall Arts Centre on August 5th and
6th, 2006.
The Knitting Circle Tuesday, July 11th, 2006, 7pm to 9pm
Guest: Rebecca Belmore
The Knitting Circle is...
A stimulating (free) monthly Performance Art discussion/support group co-presented by Video In and The Escape Artists Society (TEAS): it originally began in May 2005 as a co-production between The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S) and the Western Front Performance Art Program, but now has a new home at Video In- so we get to (and knit) on very sexy black vinyl couches now!
We discuss current performance trends, issues that are affecting performance art, the work of performance artists- past and present, and a variety of other topics that affects this discipline including "performance for video" as a genre in itself and the place of technology in works of live performance art.
Activities also include guest speakers, improvisation workshops, watching video documentation, and readings. Everyone is welcome to attend (students, established artists, emerging artists or anyone interested in performance art).
This is your chance to become part of a wonderful support network -if you are a performance artist, wanting to become a performance artist, or a lover of this exciting discipline.
Everyone is welcome!
Please bring your knitting (or a handcraft you enjoy doing). See you there!
Mrs. Murayama peels the plastic cover off a pack of wieners. She cuts them into even, small pieces. Mama prepares breakfast with all the patience and love one can put into shelling sausages out of a blister pack. A television set and a VCR fill a third of the dining table. Mama switches the TV on, her sleeping son appears on the screen: "Time to wake up Hideo dear." Mrs. Murayama has to put all her effort into arousing her grown-up son. Her obsessive trials to take control over Hideo's life are limited. The glass of the monitor averts any direct access.
One of the early Japanese works in video art, Mako Idemitsu's Hideo, It's Me, Mama (1983) deals with the doubtable role of the mother in modern Japanese society. The intense debate striking Asian gender roles and relationships within family hierarchies is as typical for Japanese media art as the tender beauty of the simplistic works of Keigo Yamamoto from the 70s. Japanese video art is unique and diverse; some works are thought provoking, others demonstrate playfulness and experimentally.
From their beginnings in 1973 at 261 Powell Street, the Satellite Video Exchange Society has acquired a collection of countless Japanese works. This evening celebrates 30 Years of Japanese Video Art (as part of the 30th anniversary of the Powell Street Festival).
Video In provides access to these tapes as well as a catalogue compiling their Japanese video collection at our present location (Video In Studios 1965 Main Street).
Cue Up: JULY Thursday, July 27th, 2006 @ 8pm Guest: Amy Lockart
Amy Lockhart is a filmmaker (primarily animator) and artist. Her artwork and award winning films have been exhibited internationally. Amy has educated herself through attending the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, completing an artist residency at the Quickdraw Animation Society and completing a fellowship at the National Film Board. She has received international acclaim, speaking and exhibiting her work at various art institutions including The California Institute of the Arts, where she completed an artist residency.
Submissions 8:00pm and screenings 8:30pm
Socializing to follow.
Our Community Stories: Screening and Installation July 28th, 2006
Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:00pm
Our Community Story is a community public art project that engages youth and elders in Vancouver’s Hastings/Sunrise neighbourhood in an oral history process. OCS uses artistic processes to recover and document some of the area’s living history: the history remembered by the community’s inhabitants.
Video In is hosting a second screening and installation for a wider audience interested in this project and its facinating history.
SEPTEMBER 2006
MUTED: SWARM 2006 September 8, 2006
Doors: 8:00pm
MUTED was a multi-disciplinary installation produced by nine artists
exploring the impact of censorship on the facilitation, aesthetics and
production of artwork. The notion of censorship is very subtle and
often has unperceivable effects. Video In has created an exhibition that
questions self, peer, community and state censorship within cultural
production.
Each piece was be interrogated with the assistance of overhead spotlights
while the remainder of the room holds black. The artists will
present work that have been tied up, hung or restricted by our current
state of affairs. As a whole the show will examine the internal and
external forces that sway the artistfs original intension.
Emily Rosamondfs sound piece looked at interiority and confinement
within internal spaces. Her piece speaks of implicit censorship
rather than explicit censorship; the wide tendency in our culture to just
conform outwardly; and stay inside our own spaces in order to not
unsettle the dust.
Miss Sixty talked about the political notion of Western fashion through a
pair of stilettos. She ponders the question, gHow free is a person who
has full mobility but inhibits their body through their shoes?h
Mona Hatoumfs video piece gSo much I Want To Sayh repeats the
titlefs phrase over and over while still shots of a woman being gaged
transition from one to the other.
Other artist represented in MUTED are Steve Calvert, Emma Hendrix,
Crista Dahl, Pierre Sonolet and Asa Mori.
NEW FORMS FESTIVAL EXHIBITION AND ARTIST TALKS
Opening Reception: September 19th, 2006, 7:00pm to 10pm
Artist Talks: September 20th, 2006, 7:00pm to 10pm Exhibition: September 20th to 24th, 2006, noon to 6pm
Join us for this year's New Forms Festival Exhibition at Video In Studios where the installations explore the trans-formative audio-visual, sculptural, kinetic and telematic pieces and emphasize the transfigurability of electronic media and physical reality, and their power to mutually affect and transform one another. Especially prevalent in this year’s exhibition are mixed-reality installations that cross the boundary separating the real and the fantastic or imaginary. For this exhibition Dinka Pignon selected works that creatively violate physical law and customary reality, and other original works that embody, reflect and demonstrate the idea of transformation.
Isabelle Jenniches (Germany / Netherlands) THE CALL
Derk Wolmuth (Canada) OIL WHIRLPOOL
Veronika Bökelmann (Norway) 2006 I - DESERTIFICATION
Lynne Sanderson (Australia) LUCID TOUCH
Sloodanka Stupar (Greece) FLOATING / ERASING
Mark Cypher (Australia) CONCRESENCE
Victoria Scott (Canada) EMOTIONAL BATTERIES
Pierre Andre Sonolet (Canada) MY BELLY
Richard Wright (England) MIMETICON
David J. Johnston / Jinsil Seo / Diane Gromala (Canada) AMPUTATION BOX
Jennifer Willet / Shawn Bailey (Canada) BIOTEKNICA
OTHER NEW FORMS EVENTS INCLUDE:
Nonverbal Narrations at Video In September 20th to 24th, noon to 6pm (more information)
ArtCamp (more information) Thursday, September 21, 2006
Music & Visual Series 02 (more information) Thursday, September 21, 2006
Music & Visual Series 03 (more information) Friday, September 22, 2006
Music & Visual Series 04 (more information) Satrday, September 23, 2006
VIDEO/BLIM: RAVE Saturday, September 30th, 2006 @ 9pm
Co-presented by Blim and Video In.
Please see http://www.blim.ca for more details
OCTOBER 2006
Cue Up: OCTOBER Thursday, October 5th, 2006 @ 8pm Special guest: Michael Goldberg
Thursday, September 28th Cue-Up is cancelled!
Instead we have rescheduled Cue-Up with special guest Michael Goldberg for October 5th, 2006 starting at its usual 8:00pm time.
Michael Goldberg, one of Video In's (The Satellite Video Exchange) founding members, now living in Tokyo, will be in Vancouver at the Vancouver Film Festival to premiere his documentary called A ZEN LIFE.
At Cue-Up, Michael will be presenting 'Fundraising models for video documentaries' and screening clips from his feature length projects.
The Knitting Circle Tuesday, October 10th, 2006, 7pm to 9pm
Guest: Margaret Dragu
The Knitting Circle is...
A stimulating (free) monthly Performance Art discussion/support group co-presented by Video In and The Escape Artists Society (TEAS): it originally began in May 2005 as a co-production between The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S) and the Western Front Performance Art Program, but now has a new home at Video In- so we get to (and knit) on very sexy black vinyl couches now!
We discuss current performance trends, issues that are affecting performance art, the work of performance artists- past and present, and a variety of other topics that affects this discipline including "performance for video" as a genre in itself and the place of technology in works of live performance art.
Activities also include guest speakers, improvisation workshops, watching video documentation, and readings. Everyone is welcome to attend (students, established artists, emerging artists or anyone interested in performance art).
This is your chance to become part of a wonderful support network -if you are a performance artist, wanting to become a performance artist, or a lover of this exciting discipline.
Everyone is welcome!
Dates for 2006: Nov 14, Dec 12
PROMENADE
Celebrating John Cage: A Vancouver New Music Initiative. Find a full list of events here.
October 17, 6pm - Main Street (Start location: Video In, 1965 Main Street, back entrance) October 19th, 4pm - Vancouver Financial Business District (Start Location: Burrard Sky Train Station Park, corner of Burrard and Dunsmuir) October 21, 2pm - Commercial Drive (Start Location: Grandview Park)
free / this is a non-spectator performance
Through the decades local collaborations in sound art and performance have been influenced by Cage, Happenings and Fluxus. From the Western Front and Video Inn to Intermission and the Disasteroids, calculated non-art scores have been passed on. Each group has been determined to explore playfulness and experimentation without artistic authority.
The current generation at VIVO (Video In : Video Out) will celebrate by parading Cage scores down Commercial Drive, Main Street and in the Business District.
We want YOU to join in.
NOVEMBER 2006
THE KNITTING CIRCLE Tuesday, November 14th, 2006, 7pm to 9pm
A stimulating (free) monthly Performance Art discussion/support group co-presented by Video In and The Escape Artists Society (TEAS): it originally began in May 2005 as a co-production between The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S) and the Western Front Performance Art Program, but now has a new home at Video In- so we get to (and knit) on very sexy black vinyl couches now!
We discuss current performance trends, issues that are affecting performance art, the work of performance artists- past and present, and a variety of other topics that affects this discipline including "performance for video" as a genre in itself and the place of technology in works of live performance art.
Activities also include guest speakers, improvisation workshops, watching video documentation, and readings. Everyone is welcome to attend (students, established artists, emerging artists or anyone interested in performance art).
This is your chance to become part of a wonderful support network -if you are a performance artist, wanting to become a performance artist, or a lover of this exciting discipline.
Everyone is welcome!
Dates for 2006: Dec 12
VJ WORKSHOPS November 15th and 16th, 2006, 6pm to 10pm
VIVO (Video In | Video Out) is presenting video performance workshops. These workshops are being offered to video artists who would like to learn how to mix (edit) video and work with musicians and/or sound artists in a live performative setting.
November 15th, 2006 - Theory, hardware, analogue mixing from long form sources.
This course has been created to teach equipment set-up (i.e. multiple displays, live feed, creating feedback, connecting multiple sources), vj theory, hardware based mixing, sourcing materials and working with long form sources.
Cost: $50 for members, $80 for non-members.
November 16th, 2006 - Theory, software and short form mixing (plus: creating the perfect loop)
This course teaches software vj mixing using Modul8, mixing with sound, vj theory involving digital and generative sources, working with short form loops and how to make a gapless loop.
Cost: $50 for members, $80 for non-members.
Register by emailing event@videoinstudios.com or phone 604-872-8337
VIDEO GAME ORGY 3 - The Anti-Emulation Machine Saturday, November 18th, 2006, 8pm
All ages 5pm to 8pm
VGO 3, self dubbed "the anti-emulation machine" will be bringing you a stupid amount of vintage video game systems, djs, performers, and jell-o. yes, the tent will be back, the library will be stocked, and the ULTIMATE PONG CHALLENGE will be yours.... if you DARE!
This is a VIVO Fundraiser. Want to help out with the event? Contact Emma at tech@videoinstudios.com
WATER SQUATTERS Friday, November 24th , 2006
Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8:00pm
What happens when a person's inner sense of identity conflicts with society's expectations? When False Creek live-aboard residents learn that a new law threatens their whole lifestyle, they decide to confront their challengers . Water Squatters is the first complete picture of the series of events that changed the course of their lives forever.
Meet Jordan, Jackie, David, Anselmo, Barry, Susan, Brian, Bill, Donna, and Andre: a garden-variety of artists and entrepreneurs that refuse to be limited by their difficulties or to be defined by labels. After leaving the usual trappings--large homes and shabby hotel rooms--they moved to makeshift boats and cutting-edge yachts. Their crime: love of freedom, self-reliance and boats.
Who stole Jordan's boat? Unfolding within the political arena of powerful economic interests and hostile landed neighbours, Water Squatters recounts the dramatic season that a community traditionally viewed as powerless took the future into their own hands. Part documentary, part suspense, follow director Leon Kaplan as he jumps into the water with sea legs bravado and a handheld camera to share with you every detail about the obstacles boat-dwellers encounter to anchor near Vancouver's coastline and to gain control over their lives. Without a doubt, Water Squatters will change forever the way you think and talk about squatters.
Directed by Leon Kaplan, 1:25 minutes
WITHOUT EFFECT Saturday, November 25th , 2006
Doors: 8:30pm, Show: 9:00pm Coin Gutter and Miriam Needoba, Jackson 2bears, Jesse Scott and Kenny Roux
WITHOUT EFFECT is an evening of video performance artists improvising with sound artists to create one-off cut up narrative.
Moving away from the effects of eye candy demonstrated by many VJs this set of performers will present a new kind of cinema.
Performances include:
Jackson 2bears performing "Dead Injuns - Remix Warz" consisting of the live manipulation (remixing) of audio and video media
using digitallyencoded vinyl records and specially designed software. Inspired by the need to re-appropriate indigenous identity
symbols; this performanceexplores issues of Native American stereotypes and racism in the media,film and popular culture.
Miriam Needoba remixing excerpts from her latest film "The Land of the Lotus Eaters". She will be accompanied by Coin Gutter
(Emma Hendrix and Graeme Scott) famous for their macrosonic dissection and cross disciplinary collaboration.
Jesse Scott and Kenny Roux will be performing a live reconfiguration of the Open-Source Film from straycinema.com.
S:LAB ELECTRONIC MEDIA WORKSHOPS
This series of new workshops are specifically project-oriented, featuring lectures, demos, hands-on experiments, open-lab time and one-on-one mentoring. The aim is to provide artists with a working knowledge of basic electronics, mechanics, circuit-building, multimedia programming and computer interfacing. By the end of the series, participants will be able to manipulate and integrate visuals and sound with physical media in real-time. Prerequisites: a keen curiosity and willingness to learn.
Cue Up: NOVEMBER Thursday, November 30th, 2006 @ 8pm Guest: Rafael Tsuchida
Rafael Tsuchida has completed a BFA, Major in Media Arts, from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1997). He is primarily known for his conceptually-based video art work but maintains a multidisciplinary practice that includes photography, printed matter, audio/music, and installation.
Additionally he provides technical support for the arts (having worked with a number of artists, collectives and organizations) with a background in care-support. He is a former Lead Technician for Video In (2001-2004), and currently works as an Integrated Media Studio Support Technician at ECIAD.
Rafael enjoys having fun times with friends.
Submissions 8:00pm and screenings 8:30pm
Socializing to follow.
NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO CUE UP IN DECEMBER (Happy Holidays!)
DECEMBER 2006
Holiday Party/Fundraiser/Screening Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Holiday Party and Fundraiser (6pm to 8:30pm) Party Tickets - Suggested Donation $10 (you get entrance into "Beauty Marred")
Featuring:
Silent Auction of framed stills from early, seminal works from the Video Out Collection Launch of Adopt A Tape ! our fundraising campaign to preserve and restore very early video art master tapes in the collection Plus Delicious Hot Food and Holiday Martinis
Seminal video works, many of which are the only master tape in existence from the 70's and 80's are languishing and deteriorating at a heartbreaking rate.
You Have Adopted Marmots... Now You Can Save Art One Tape At A Time !
We will be launching our adopt a tape program, so that individuals can support a video tape getting preserved... sort of like adopting part of the Trans Canada trail, or an animal species going extinct.... Not as adorable, of course, 3/4" inch tape, but you will feel great about it just the same! Come and have a drink and delicious food with us, let us wish you well for the holidays and help us make a dent in preserving a video art legacy that is slowly disappearing before our eyes.
Just think, with the instability of digital video formats these days.. in 20 years these could you your master tapes we are trying to save from oblivion.....
Come and toast the holidays in with us, and help us keep VIVO and the Video Out Video Collection going for another year
BEAUTY MARRED is a selection of short videos exploring the intricacies of vanguard non-fiction storytelling.
If video were conceptual sculpture these videos would exemplify its inherent full and empty interpretations. Steering away from purposeful documentary propaganda, curators Shawn Chappelle and Julie Gendron have chosen pieces that give the audience critical distance through form.
Not unlike the recent feature-length release of "Manufactured Landscapes" directed by Jennifer Baichwal, these pieces don't attempt to spell out judgement but merely demonstrate.
Many of the pieces chosen such as Igor Santizo's "Autoscopy" and Freda Gutherman's "Silent Movie" are personal versions of their own truth which can be translated into fractals of universal truth.
Other more political pieces like "The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs" by Walid Raad examine the fall out of constant and historical upheaval in Lebanon by studying social symptoms and not "the facts".
In an attempt to re-examine and revitalize short documentary video works we invite you to attend this screening.
THE KNITTING CIRCLE Tuesday, December 12th, 2006, 7pm to 9pm
A stimulating (free) monthly Performance Art discussion/support group co-presented by Video In and The Escape Artists Society (TEAS): it originally began in May 2005 as a co-production between The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S) and the Western Front Performance Art Program, but now has a new home at Video In- so we get to (and knit) on very sexy black vinyl couches now!
We discuss current performance trends, issues that are affecting performance art, the work of performance artists- past and present, and a variety of other topics that affects this discipline including "performance for video" as a genre in itself and the place of technology in works of live performance art.
Activities also include guest speakers, improvisation workshops, watching video documentation, and readings. Everyone is welcome to attend (students, established artists, emerging artists or anyone interested in performance art).
This is your chance to become part of a wonderful support network -if you are a performance artist, wanting to become a performance artist, or a lover of this exciting discipline.
