Thursday, August 16, 2012

Summer Party Prep

our projection group spent the evening in the Ortona Room & courtyard building screens and testing projectors for our film/video/slide/light extravaganza tomorrow night. Please do come by to FAVA's summer party to check out what we've been up to. for now a few in progress pics are below to give you a sense.

the fun begins tomorrow night at 7pm with a screening of s8 films in the exhibition suite then head downstairs to the Ortona room & courtyard for a performance by Smokey. Projections all night! BBQ & Drinks. Oh My!







Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Darkroom fun!


Had a great day getting my hands dirty and cross-processing some colour 16mm with Patrick Arès-Pilon today. We were processing some colour negative Patrick shot up in the Rockies near Canmore using E6 colour positive chemistry. super fun! The film loops will make their debut this coming Friday at FAVA's summer party - come by and take a peak!  The festivities begin at 7pm with a screening of super 8 films followed by site-specific live projection performance (with Smokey, Christina Battle, Patrick Arès-Pilon, Benny Arkless, Adam Bentley, Mark Hill, Andres Mendoza,
Leanne Olson, John Osborne, Edmon Rotea, Janet Savill, and Victoria Zimski) at 9pm!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

First Collaborative Projections Meeting


We had a great workshop last night talking about projecting images in space and playing with light, lenses, mirrors and screens!

An action plan is slowing coming into focus for our multi-projection event at next week's FAVA summer party. Collaborating on the projections are: Patrick, Benny, Adam, Mark, Andres, Leanne, John, Edmon, Janet, Victoria & myself...stay tuned for more details!

Some artists whose work we talked about for inspiration:

LIGHT
- Ted Victoria's Lightbulb Projections another image of the projectors here (1974-2009) & Brine Shrimp (1996-2005)
Ryota Kuwakubo's The Tenth Sentiment (2010) 

SCREENS
- Sibyl Montague's Last Island (2009)
- Sarah Pucill's You Be Mother (1990)
- Silvi Simon's filmatruc à verres and another
- Tony Oursler's eyes (1996) & Zero & The Influence Machine (2000) & Broken (1990) & Insomnia (1996)

SPACE (SCALE)
- more Silvi Simon (2002)
- Nam June Paik's Megatron/Matrix (1995)
- Barbara Kruger's Power Pleasure Desire Disgust (1997)
- Tony Hill's Floor Film (1975)

For our next meeting we'll be focussing on making and collecting imagery and doing some trials with screens in the Ortona Room.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Collaborative Projections begin Tomorrow Night!

*photos on the wall thanks to Patrick Arès Pilon!!

Thanks to everyone who came out for the 'something strangely familiar' archive screening last week! A few artists were in attendance: Lindsay McIntyre (2 haunting works about place 'where no one knew her name' & 'barge dirge'); John Osborne (the psychedelic explosion of colour & shape 'Transformations'); Kyle Armstrong (the haunting collage 'Mental Notes from a Cluttered Mind); and Patrick Arès Pilon (a live film projector performance with Gerry Morita).

If you have never spent time in the FAVA archives I highly recommend it - there is a wealth of strong work just waiting to be watched!

Tomorrow night begins part one of a 2 (actually 3...possibly 4?) part workshop on the Art of Projection. We'l be collaborating on making projections for FAVA's summer party next week - along with a live musical performance by Smokey. Stay tuned for news on what we get up to and how things progress. And come by next Friday night to see it all in person!

In the meantime you should head over to the Metro Cinema tonight for part 2 of the Images Festival Cross Canada Tour - A Letter to the Living! Featuring a work & a Q&A by FAVA's own Lindsay McIntyre.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

something strangely familiar










  


something strangely familiar - a program of short film & videos from FAVA’s archives.
curated by Christina Battle - 7pm, August 2, 2012 – FAVA Exhibition Space

Where am I going? I don't quite know. 
What does it matter where people go? 
Down to the wood where the blue-bells grow --
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.  
[Spring Morning - A. A. Milne (from L.A. Trimova’s Paddock Pass)]

** 
The Works:
where no one knew her name - Lindsay McIntyre – 2011 - 3mins
Paddock Pass - L.A. Trofimova - 1991  - 6mins
Bohunk Goes to Zion - Alex Viszmeg - 1986 - 12mins
Transformations  - John Osborne – 2007 - 2.30mins
Mental Notes From a Cluttered Mind - Kyle Armstrong - 10mins
Something Strangely Familiar - aAron Munson – 2012 - 3.22 mins
barge dirge – Lindsay McIntyre – 2010 - 7mins
Live Projector Performance - Patrick Arès-Pilon [dance: Gerry Morita; sound: Shawn Pinchback]- 7mins 
This is My City - Christopher Payne  - 2001 - 3mins
Travis Bretzer — The Mall - Evan Prosofsky – 2011 - 2.22  

[TRT approx 60mins] 

( Images from L to R: This is My City; Bohunk Goes to Zion)

Monday, July 30, 2012

UPCOMING SCREENING!

hey everybody,
thanks so much to those members who came  out for my screening & talk last week! special thanks to Melissa, Aerlan, aAron, Andrew & Katrina who all helped with setup/tech and made the show possible.

i've been having a blast searching through the FAVA archives, starting to better familiarize myself with the literally thousands of works that have come thru the centre. Please come by the FAVA Exhibition space this coming Thursday, August 2 at 7pm for a short program of film & video works found during my investigations. Special thanks to aAron and Melissa for all their advice and work on helping to make this screening possible!

I'll be posting the final program soon so check back for more info!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

made it!


 So, I made it to Edmonton and am now on day 2 of my residency here at FAVA. Everyone here is amazing. super friendly, eager to engage and make things! The friendly and easy-goingness is something i've forgotten about Edmonton. Maybe its the long summer days - or maybe the long dark winters that remind people to enjoy - being here right NOW. Either way its nice to be 'home' and to be around people who like making and talking about art while still wanting to take the time to chat. i've missed that!

FAVA itself is in the Ortona Armoury - home of the Ortona Armoury Tenants Association - dedicated to artistic culture and community and the building itself is a fantastically inspiring space - originally built by The Hudson’s Bay Company in 1914 as a warehouse and brick stable for its delivery horses.




Over the weekend I was lucky to have the opportunity to head further north and stay in a lovely cabin at Miksau Retreat thanks to Aukje Kapteyn for allowing me to stay in the cabin and shoot on her amazing property. Also thanks to my Uncle Dale who helped me rent a drum kit for the shoot & also gave me my first drum lesson ever. I am now forever hooked and all i can think about is when i can play again! The project is still taking shape but (at least for now) titled waiting for time to repeat itself (at the end of the world) - i'm still figuring out what its about exactly but it has something to do with waiting...time...and disjointed image & sound relationships (images waiting for their sound to arrive).
 Passing time. Time passes. Repeat.

I'm prepping for an artist talk tomorrow night - come by if you're in town - i'll be walking through some recent installations as well as showing some recent film/video works.

wandering through secret storms and other works
A Screening & Artist Talk
Wendesday, July 25 | 7pm
FAVA's Exhibition Suite
FREE | Toonie Bar

come hang out and say hello!

I'm also going to start looking through the FAVA archives for a screening i'm curating next Wednesday - tell me about your work so i can look out for it in the archive. its huge & i won't have time to look through all the works in there!

It for now!



Monday, May 28, 2012

FAVA Artist in Residence


I'm excited to be Edmonton bound this summer where I will be an artist in residence at FAVA for a whole month. Stay tuned to this blog for what i get up to & for more about FAVA & the artists i come across there. If you're in Edmonton come by and say hello!

for now - a bit about FAVA:
Founded in 1982, FAVA (Film & Video Arts Society Alberta) is the only media arts cooperative in Northern Alberta, and as such serves filmmakers, video artists, new media artists, animators, video jammers, installation artists, audio artists and so on, throughout the region. Our members live in urban centres like Edmonton, rural towns like Didsbury and Olds and remote northern communities like Slave Lake and Athabasca. As the only resource of our kind in such a large region, we have ample opportunity to connect with, collaborate with and support a wide variety of arts organizations, community service organizations, festivals, educators and industry groups.