- March 15, 2002 to April 6, 2002
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A series of sculptures composed of commonplace objects together with objects the artist has constructed from wood, aluminum, resin and lead. The latter materials are often cast in multiples from moulds initially made from collected artefacts, such as bones. This exhibit also incorporates monitors showing simple, repetitive moving images in such a way as to mask the frame of technology, such that the fluidity of image and sound remain.
By Fae Logie
medium | 42 Programs
Medium Film & VideoWork including film or video elements either digital or analogue, not to be applied to work that has been documented with film or video but is otherwise not film or video-based.
- January 17, 2002 to February 8, 2002
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Different/Diverse brings together European video artists from the UK, Finland, Estonia and Italy in a program that explores notions of normalcy and the abnormal. Different/Diverse is a production of Nuova Icona & Vortice and in Vancouver it will be co-hosted by grunt and Western Front. The screening and exhibitions give a strong look at current European video practice. The show consisted of a screening, on January 17, and a simultaneous opening hosted by grunt and Western Front, and a January 18 performance by Paolo Ravalico Scerri.
By Douglas Gordon, Giovanni Rizzoli, Graham Fagen, Gun Holmstrom, Kai Kaljo, Paolo Ravalco Scerri, Roi Vaara, Terry Smith - Curated by Terry Smith, Vitto Urbani
Different/ Diverse
- February 9, 2001
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This performance by Alberto Friggo employs a format he has been exploring recently. In these demonstrations he videos an action and then interacts with the recording. In this performance Friggo will lead the spectator in the making of gnocchi, potato pasta. While this preparation is recorded, it is replayed while the audience consumes the pasta. The final work is the two videos; one of the preparation and another of the consumption that is played side by side on monitors.
By Alberto Friggo
Gnocchi
- December 8, 1986
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"The Chilean government is a military regime that seized power in the coup of 1973, murdering Salvador Allende the democratically elected president, along with a conservatively estimated 15,000 civilians." The film chronicles the emergence of mass opposition to the military dictatorships in 1983.
By Clandestinley made by Chileans
Chile: I Do Not Take Your Name in Vain
- September 12, 2013 to September 15, 2013
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Media and installation artist Josephin Böttger presents a new work entitled Dynamo Lines, which looks at the fragmentation of cityscapes caused by social constructs, urban development, traffic, lights and movement. Three looped video projections depict time-lapsed motion and light from various vantage points of city grids and traffic. Working with musician Sergej Tolksdorf, Böttger’s video installation includes footage of actors emerging as a work team, observing busy highway arteries. But their movements are edited so they appear sporadic, contrapunctual to the rythm and flow of light from the streets. Josephin Böttger presented Trapez at New Forms Festival. The video documents the construction work that occurs at a building site; time and reality is distorted by time lapses and drawn elements that blend into the footage. The video examines construction and demolition, both key components of urban development.
By Josephin Böttger, Sergej Tolksdorf
Dynamo Lines/Trapez
- October 25, 2013 to November 30, 2013
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location/dis-location(s): contingent promises continues Salloum’s visualization of the nature of the ‘natural’ and constructed environments. An extensive assembly of photographs, taken at various places the artist has visited over recent years, is composed through various signifiers and aesthetics. The images depict locations considered public and private, claimed and unsigned spaces, forms of the common, socio/ideological stage fronts, and domestic settings.These photographs are from Salloum’s ongoing body of work, untitled: photographs, that attempts to critically engage in the representation of public and private space. location/dis-location(s) approaches coming to terms with what it means to be making photographs here (and elsewhere) and the exploration of the possibilities of visualizing the nature of natural, urban, semi-urban, and sub-urban environments (and the totality of the constructs signified in those terms).
By Jayce Salloum
location/dis-location(s): contingent promises
- September 5, 2013 to October 12, 2013
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A multimedia exhibition with work by artists Bracken Hanuse Corlette and Csetkwe Fortier. The artists turn our attention toward the stcuwin (salmon) as a traditional food source via process and connection. The decline of cultural harvest due to disease, climate change and overfishing has left both animal and human in a struggle to survive; the exhibition investigates this topic with new works in painting, drawing, sculpture and digital media. The artists acknowledge an active and ongoing mentorship with artist, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, throughout the creation of this exhibition. Bracken describes the relationship as multifaceted. “He has given us invaluable tips and tricks that have helped our technical process in painting and we have had good talks about concept, form, Indian politics and life, art world dealings, and the history of Indigenous art on the coast and in the Interior [of British Columbia].
By Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Csetkwe Fortier
Don’t Go Hungry
- October 11, 2012 to November 17, 2012
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“The Sea Is A Stereo” by artist Mounira Al Solh, introduces us to a group of men who swim daily at a beach in Beirut, Lebanon. This practice of swimming takes place despite varying circumstances relating to weather, the change of seasons, and the conflict of war and politics. The work is made up of several elements that use video, photographs and audio-recorded interviews. While these men are connected through their swimming ritual, Al Solh further connects these men to their surroundings, practice and socio-political issues by means of a visual and audio-based installation. This exhibition will take place in the main front room at grunt gallery.The exhibition will also include a newly created work by Mounira Al Solh, entitled, “A Double Burger and Two Metamorphoses: a proposal for a Dutch Cat, a Dutch Dog, a Dutch Donkey, a Dutch Goat and finally, a Dutch Camel”. An ongoing project created in 2010, the artist forces herself to be locked inside an empty house for three days while she communicates through scripted conversations.
By Al Solh, Mounira
The Sea Is A Stereo
- January 15, 2015 to February 21, 2015
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grunt gallery presents Crossed, an exhibition by artist Ahmad Tabrizi and curated by Makiko Hara. This multi-media exhibition creates a sense of portraiture compiled of Farsi script, piles of dressmaking pins, and glimpses of the artist himself – both visually and through audio.
By Ahmad Tabrizi - Curated by Makiko Hara
Crossed
- January 8, 2015 to March 15, 2015
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Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982 is an exhibition, website and publication that takes a close look at a self-identified collective of socially and artistically motivated men and women who came of age on Vancouver’s Main Street—once the dividing line between a predominantly Anglo middle-class west side and a multicultural working-class east side. The exhibition at Satellite Gallery contributes to the larger project of bringing to light an under-recognized chapter of Vancouver art history. The Mainstreeters—Kenneth Fletcher, Deborah Fong, Carol Hackett, Marlene MacGregor, Annastacia McDonald, Charles Rea, Jeanette Reinhardt and Paul Wong—were an “art gang” who took advantage of the times, a new medium (video), and each other. Emerging from the end-stage hippie era, the gang drew from glam, punk and a thriving gay scene to become an important node in the local art scene. Their activities connect the influential interdisciplinary salon of Roy Kiyooka in the early 1960s with the collective-oriented social practices that emerged worldwide in the early years of the 21st century. Like the current “digital natives” generation, the Mainstreeters were the first generation to grow up with video cameras. The resulting documents bring into focus a decade of their lives, including forays into sex, love, drugs and art.
By Annastasia McDonald, Carol Hackett, Charles Rea, Deborah Fong, Jeanette Reinhardt, Kenneth Fletcher, Marlene MacGregor, Mary Janeway, Paul Wong - Curated by Allison Collins, Michael Turner