November 25-December 9 2005
Gala Night: Friday, November 25, 7PM-Late.
Live music, crêpe stand, creative refreshment, 50/50 draw, silent auction.
Come and celebrate the diversity and creativity of our members’ work in The Winter Warmer, and open show and sale.
Opening night features a live performance by Shary Boyle with music by Christine Fellows, to coincide with the launch of her new book, Witness My Shame.
Catherine Béchard and Sabin Hudon
Béchard and Hudon have collaborated to create an interactive automated sound installation comprising of two works, Au Bout Du Fil and The Voice of Things. Au Bout Du Fil is an acoustic work inspired by a very simple amplification device of our childhood, the string telephone, where a series of strings are stretched between two pails along with a mechanized platform to which paper sheets are attached. The paper rubs back and forth on the strings. In The Voice of Things two huge mechanical brooms are suspended and see-saw, backwards and forwards. As they teeter-totter, they scratch, stroke and brush against a heap of newspapers. Their rhythms, sometimes very slow, convey a feeling of suspension in time and their excessive size suggest a sense of frailty and loss of balance. In both pieces the work is triggered by the viewers presence, and the sounds created are directly related to the position of the viewer to the works.
Teresa Ascencao, Adad Hannah, and Daniel Laskarin
Opening reception: Friday August 26, 7:30pm
Artist talk: Saturday August 27, 2pm
Critical Distance by Steve Loft
To be Continued… is a group show of three artists from Toronto, Montreal and Victoria respectively, and features three video installations. Glowing Madonna by Teresa Ascencao is an interactive video installation whereby the viewer’s shadow, together with a video projection of a contemporary Virgin Mary, remains glowing on a large photo-luminescent wall. In Room 112, Adad Hannah presents two simultaneously shot views of a hotel room in slow rotation. The footage captures motionless characters; a celebrity is interviewed, a couple fights, a musician is interviewed and subsequently walks out on his girlfriend, an assistant applies powder, and a babysitter sends instant messages on a mobile phone while his charges play video games. Relapse, by Daniel Laskarin combines digital video with sculpture, creating a group of small interconnected boxes, where some of them contain a small, moving image of a building being demolished; its collapse reveals its duplicate, which collapses in turn peeling off layers like the layers of an onion. The endlessly moving video image explores a state of suspended anticipatory consciousness. All three works employ a sense of transformation through ‘capturing’, through either continuous repetition, through video stills shot in real time or by the stealing of your shadow by the actual work.
A non-juried members show of video works by: Risa Horowitz, Kevin Kelly, Konrad Kordaoski, Quidam (Doug Kretchmer), Tyrone Otte, Karen Johnson, Lynn Devisscher, Collin Zipp, Jen Delos Reye, Liz Garlicki, Hope Peterson, Matthew Shimnowski, Elvira Finnegan, Val Klassen, Dominique Rey, Ken Harasym, Graham Ududec, Rob Blaich, Brett McLaughlin, Karen Wardle, Leanne Cipriano, Derek Bruekner, Jean klimack, Doug Lewis, Glenn Johnson, Christine Kirouac, Juan Zavaleta, Grant Guy, Susan Kennedy, Anne-Michele Fortin, Simon Hughes, Nicole Shimonek and Paul Butler.
A night of spoken word performances.
aceartinc. in collaboration with Urban Shaman hosted a sit-down-club atmosphere of artists, performers and writers to participate in an evening of spoken word. Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists participated through an open call from our respective memberships. Spoken word became a recognized and popular genre in Montreal in the early nineties despite its history stemming back to the seventies. Its popularity stemmed from its ability to hybrid a wide array of artistic practices, such as: theatre, dance, poetry, storytelling, performance art, popular music, rap, and even stand-up comedy. This fusion of the different genres has developed into slam poetry, which is delivered energetically and rhythmically; dub poetry, a musical and distinctly Jamaican form; simple readings of printed texts within a literary tradition; text-based performance art; activist messages; monologues or stories; poetry springing from the urban hip-hop culture; experimental sound poetry; or work that draws its influences from all of these forms.
Featuring works by: Colette Balcaen, Daniel Barrow, Gary Bergman, Jan Braun, Barbara Chatelaine, Ira Chatelaine, Shayla Elizabeth, Christoff Eubrecht, Ernest Flow, Rob Fordyce, Paul Friesen, Michael Goertzen, Garth Hardy, Cheyenne Henry, Emilie St. Hilaire, Leila Katz, Traute Klein, Heather McKenzie, Kathryn McKenzie, Duncan Mecredi, George Morrisette, Shannon Pidlubny, Courtney Siebring, Lynnel Sinclaire,Cyrus Smith, Dave Streit, Joan Suzuki, Ferrin Towers and Lindsey Weibe.
Installations, photographs and video works by Martin Beauregard and Maclean
Opening reception: Friday May 27, 7:30pm,
Artist Talk: Saturday May 28, 2pm.
Critical Distance by Christabel Wiebe
Maclean
Martin Beauregard
Opening Reception: Friday April 29, 7:30pm,
Each year aceartinc. provides a professional development opportunity for the School of Art students by offering our space as a site for a juried group exhibition. The students gain experience with the installation processes, while have the opportunity to see their works in exhibition and invite the public to share in their success. This year presented twenty-one artists from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art who, in the eyes of a jury, have situated themselves successfully within the problematic schema of the student artist.
Featuring work by: Jon Armistead, Cam Bush, Wendy Campbell, Alexis Dirks, Natalie Ferguson, Rob Fordyce, Dagmara Genda, Dionne Horsford, Takashi Iwasaki, Krisjanis Katkins-Gorsline, Jessica Koroscil, Jenny Moore Koslowsky, Sally McDonald, Divya Mehra, Bruce Montcombroux, Agnes Neufeld, Mark Saunders, Johanna Schmidt, Elaine Stocki, Melody White and Collin Zipp.
Critical Distance by Gwen Armstrong
Scott Watson: 21 March, 6pm
Lisa Gabrielle Mark: 25th March, 6pm
Reid Shier: 3rd May, 7pm
Karen Azoulay : Robyn Foster
Reception: Friday March 4, 7:30-10pm
Artist Lectures: Saturday March 5, 2pm
Critical Distance by cam bush
Tandem installations by prairie-based artists Sandee Moore and Linda Duvall
Reception: Friday january 7, 7:30-10pm
Artist Lectures: Saturday January 8, 2pm
Critical Distance by Jeanne Randolph
