The Wind Men Are Coming  | Irene Bindi & Aston Coles

Launch 7pm, Friday 20^th April 2012  | Artist Talk/Performance 2pm, Saturday 21^st April 2012

In the swamp of work and time, objects shift and bend to reflect images of each other and themselves. A brother and sister listen indoors as the wind brings a menace to their town. But where is Harvester?  To see anything, to find anything, they look at it in shadow, or in the mirror.  Shadows and reflections are that window into the other world in which things are not passive but are actively engaging with each other, pointing to one another, and exerting unseen forces upon us. The Cock Nightjar takes his own photograph by passing through the light beam of an automatic trigger release.  What we see is the construction we have built around him, a mirror we have built for the photography of birds.

The Wind Men Are Coming  | Irene Bindi & Aston Coles

Vernissage à 19 h, vendredi le 20 avril 2012  | Causerie d’artistes/Performance 14 h, samedi le 21 avril 2012

Dans le marais du travail et du temps, les objets se décalent et se tordent, créant des images qui se reflètent les unes dans les autres. De l’intérieur, un frère et une sœur écoutent le vent qui menace leur ville. Mais où est le Moissonneur? Afin de voir quelque chose ou de trouver quelque chose, ils regardent dans l’ombre, ou dans le miroir. Les ombres et les reflets sont une fenêtre qui donne sur un autre monde où les choses ne sont pas passives mais sont engagées activement l’une avec l’autre, se pointent du doigt, et exercent des forces invisibles sur nous. L’Engoulevent mâle prend sa propre photo en passant à travers un rayon de lumière qui déclenche l’obturateur  automatiquement. Ce que nous voyons est la construction que nous avons bâti autour de lui, un miroir que nous avons fabriqué pour photographier les oiseaux.

A collaborative multimedia art event. Local films with new soundtracks performed live; dance, visual and culinary arts. Featuring Amir Amiri, Jon McPhail, Demetra Penner, Tom Keenan and many more.

Wednesday April 11, doors at 7:00, performances at 8:00

aceartinc. (2nd floor, 290 McDermot ave.)

$10

www.colonycollective.ca

dominiquecmlemoine@gmail.com

aceartinc.’s turnAround presents:

The Young Lungs Dance Exchange Fundraiser

Contemporary dance performances throughout the night.

Dance Works By:

D-Anne Kuby (With support from Winnipeg Arts Council)

Alexandra Garrido

Constance Cooke (With support from Canada Council for the Arts)

Claire Hardy

Rachel Cooper

Sasha Amaya

Becky Sawdon

Zorya Baskier-Pasternak

Card Reader: Mikaela MacDonald

And don’t forget the wine raffle!

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased from anyone involved, at the door or by emailing younglungs.wpg@gmail.com. Supporting this event helps Young Lungs continue to enrich the modern dance community of Winnipeg.

aceartinc.’s annual journal, PaperWait, is calling for submissions from artists and arts writers on the theme of altered states.

Guidelines:

Artwork: Ensure that the image you email fits these specs:

Label your entry: your-surname_ title

Title your email: Altered States Submission

300 dpi     | 7” x 8 ”

One entry per person.

Writing: no more than 1,300 words. Synopses are accepted with examples of previous writing.

The final selection will be made by hannah_g and the aceart curatorial/programming committee.

The selected artists and writers will be published in the 2011/12 edition of Paperwait and will be fiscally compensated.

Deadline: 4pm, Wednesday 25th April 2012.

Please send your inquiries and submissions to hannah_g

In addition to the current offerings of the annual aceartinc. membership, our program coordinator, hannah_g, is conducting studio visits for all current members. This means that along with access to our finely appointed woodshop and a significant collection of excess materials, discounts at local art supply shops, project room, turnAround events, a free copy of PaperWait (our limited edition annual publication of all things ace), and of course the support and assistance of all the lovely staff here at the gallery, you will also be eligible for a studio visit, entre nous, with hannah_g (this by no means precludes those practicing artists/thinkers/creators without studio space). And all of that for $20 per year!?! It really is one of the best deals in town.

secret signals 3 (detail) | 2011 | 24” x 18” | watercolor, ink, colored pencil, charcoal, graphite, gold/silver leaf, on handmade paper | photo: Guy l”Heureux

haunted/talisman | Marigold Santos

Exhibition run            2^nd March –5^th April 2012

Launch party            7pm Friday 2^nd March 2012

Artist Talk              8pm Friday 2^nd March 2012

Santos’ meticulously drawn surfaces contain a vocabulary of imagery originating from an exploration of a ‘self’ that is neither fixed nor stable. The drawings celebrate the multiplicity and hybridity of the body proper and the body as environment/landscape. Childhood games, Filipino folk-tales of the Asuang witch/vampire characters, natural decay and decomposition, and geological processes of erosion, striation and crystal formations, come together to both map and dissect a reconfigured and monsterised self.

haunted/talisman | Marigold Santos

Exposition en cours du 2 mars au 5 avril 2012

Lancement 19 h vendredi le 2 mars 2012

Causerie d’artiste  20 h vendredi le 2 mars 2012

Les surfaces méticuleusement dessinées de Santos contiennent un vocabulaire d’imagerie qui provient d’une exploration d’un ‘moi’ qui est ni fixe ni stable. Les dessins célèbrent la multiplicité et l’hybridation du corps propre et du corps en tant qu’environnement/paysage. Des jeux d’enfance, des contes folkloriques philippins de personnages Asuang (sorcières ou vampires), la décomposition et la détérioration naturelle, les processus géologiques de l’érosion, de la striation et de la formation de cristaux, se réunissent pour dessiner et disséquer un moi reconfiguré qui tire vers le monstrueux.

Thursday 15 March | 7-9pm

In this talk, Winnipeg-based inter-media artist Leah Decter will reflect on developments in her practice over the past decade with a particular view to exploring intersections of craft and other media as conceptual elements in her work. The intertwining of social justice issues, socially engaged practices, craft processes and digital media gives Decter’s work a truly unique voice.  For more information, see Decter’s bio below:

Based in Winnipeg, Canada, Leah Decter is an inter-media artist whose work integrates digital media, textiles, performance and dialogic/engaged practices. Her work is rooted in the spaces where material conditions and lived experience intersect with social and political issues. Ongoing investigations focus on relationships between place, identity and dis/location drawing on and critically examining both personal and historical narratives.

Decter holds an MFA in New Media from Berlin-based Transart Institute.  She has exhibited widely in Canada including at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Grunt Gallery, Aceart, Trinity Square Video, Platform Center for Digital and Photographic Arts, and the Dunlop Art Gallery, and internationally in the US, UK, Australia and Europe. Video screenings of her work include the Images Festival in Toronto, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Not Festival in Brooklyn NY and Malta Contemporary Art in Marsa Malta. Her work has been supported through numerous awards and is held in the collection of theWinnipeg Art Gallery as well as private collections in Canada, US and UK.  Decter’s engaged practices have included large-scale collaborative public art and intervention projects in Vancouver, Toronto and Winnipeg.

This event is presented by the Manitoba Craft Council, aceartinc. and Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery.

In the Netherlands there are currently deep explorations into dissolving boundaries between media (as a social art), activism, urban design, and development. In February, Lawrence Bird received a WAC professional development grant to attend a conference and workshop in Amsterdam: Social Cities of Tomorrow.  Here interdisciplinary groups developed ideas for using media to tackle urban problems in Amsterdam, The Hague, and Eindhoven. A key problem was regenerating industrial or marginal areas of these cities; a challenge Winnipeg shares. It also included several presentations and roundtables on the use of games in planning, a dozen international best-practise examples of media use in the city, and how new forms of trust are emerging through media use as old forms of trust are breaking down — evidenced by the Occupy movement for example.  Lawrence will present the conference’s ideas for using media in urban activism, design and planning, and discuss how they might be applied to Winnipeg.

A brief synopsis of the conference can be found here: http://www.furtherfield.org/features/social-cities-tomorrow

Keynote speakers: Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Dan Hill.

TUESDAY, January 17^th 2012
6pm to midnight
aceartinc. 290 McDermot Avenue, 2^nd floor.
Cover is by donation ($5.00 is recommended).

Video Pool Media Arts Center, in collaboration with aceartinc. and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts invite you to celebrate LITE NITE: ART’S BIRTHDAY 2012: an evening of light inspired installations, workshops, performances, silent auction and cake! Since January 17th, 1963, emerging out of the Fluxus art movement, Art’s Birthday has been celebrated on a global level by a circuit of artists to acknowledge the presence of art in our daily lives.

For more information please visit our website at www.videopool.org or befriend Video Pool Media Art Centre on Facebook!

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is a nonprofit Artist-Run Centre dedicated to independent video, audio and computer integrated multimedia production, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

We thank and acknowledge the support of our funders and partners:
Canada Council For The Arts, The Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, The government of Manitoba, The Ontario Arts Council, The Winnipeg Foundation, The National Film Board, The Thomas Sill Foundation, The W.H. & S.E. Leowen Foundation, CKUW Radio.

THURSDAY JANUARY 26TH

9PM-1AM

Big Fun Festival Kick off is finally here!

We are proud to present the first show of the festival on Thursday January 26th!

This show is sure to be a good one, a loud one and a take no prisoners evening. Opening the show we have local up and comers Pop Crimes, channeling ethereal noise into tightly woven pop music. This guys will have your ears wanting some more. In the middle we got This Hisses, you know em’ ya love em’. Gritty dynamic, and blisteringly loud, haunting rock music. Last we have the veterans of the scene. Mahogany Frog. With the use of myriad keyboards (both analogue and digital), feedback-ridden guitars, fuzz-bass and walls of electronic samples, the group creates a tube-saturated, highly overdriven jazz-rock.

Tickets are 7 Dollars at the door
If you’re into some SERIOUS Big Fun and SERIOUS deals, Festival Passes are available for 30 Dollars at Into the Music, Music Trader, Lo Pub and Black Sheep Diner

Get here early this one is going to be tight!

FRIDAY JANUARY 27TH

8:30PM-1AM

TICKETS $7

Big Fun is an annual indie music festival taking place in multiple venues throughout the Exchange District and surrounding area the last weekend of January. Using Winnipeg’s prairie winter as the backdrop, we will be showcasing the wealth of Manitoba’s artists alongside our historic downtown.

The goal of Big Fun is to present various genres of music and art over the course of four days. It will run from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon (Jan. 26-29) with multiple shows each night. Big Fun takes the shows out of overused bars and clubs, occupying galleries, lofts, and warehouse spaces instead to create an entirely new event experience.

Manitoba maintains a reputation for having a rich artistic community as well as a bitter winter. We want to bring these two elements of our province together to create an annual event our prairie town can be proud of.

Big Fun Productions is comprised of five Winnipeg artists and musicians who are passionate about their city. Inspired by the layout of Pop Montreal and NXNE, Big Fun wants to create the same excitement within the music and art community in Winnipeg by hosting several events throughout the year.

Perry Bard
“Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”
February 01-23, 2012

Workshop with Perry Bard: February 01 2012

Opening Reception: February 02 , 2012  6pm
aceartinc. 290 McDermot Ave  2nd Floor

Presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in collaboration with aceartinc. “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake” is a participatory web and public video installation re-interpreting the original 1929 avant-guard documentary “Man With a Movie Camera” by  Dziga Vertov.  “The Global Remake” illuminates the capabilities of the internet to achieve global collaboration by encouraging culturally diverse participation. The piece includes footage shot by people around the world creating infinite possible versions of the film. As new videos stream online (dziga.perrybard.net) each contribution becomes part of a worldwide montage, in Vertov’s terms the “decoding of life as it is”.

WORKSHOP with New York based artist Perry Bard  FEBRUARY 01, 2011
Join Perry Bard to learn about and discuss “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”, influenced and inspired by Dziga Vertov’s remarkable documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” from 1929. Bard will lead a two hour workshop touching on Dziga Vertov’s documentary practice and Vertov in the age of YouTube,
Participants will record their own video footage interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera, and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net where software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film. The submissions uploaded will be a Winnipeg contribute a Winnipeg chapter to the world wide project.