in the round, 2012 - video still

My newest video, in the round (2012), will be part of the Focus on Halifax program at this year’s Reel Canadian Film Festival.

Festival dates: March 29th – 31st, 2013

Reel Canadian Film Festival will welcome Canada to Fernie, BC for a showcase of film excellence and a schedule packed with entertaining, challenging and exceptional work.  The program features entertaining children’s shorts from the National Film Board; shorts from emerging film-makers; five feature films; and our gala and closing receptions.

Special thanks to:

Conference dates:
Friday, March 1
7:00-8:30: Keynote presentation by Lane Reylea
8:30-10:00: Reception at McIntosh Gallery

Saturday, March 2
10:30 – 6:30: Panels

Sunday, March 3
10:30 – 2:00: Panels

I will be presenting on the topic of food and performance art on Sunday, March 3 at (Re)Activating Objects, Western University’s Graduate Conference on Social Theory & Material Culture.

If you’re in the London Area between March 1-3, come check it out. It is absolutely FREE to attend and lunch is included, all made possible by generous funding from various departments and faculties at Western University.

Just register online here so they know you’re coming:

http://reactivatingobjects.wordpress.com/registration/

For all the details, including daily schedules, presenter bio’s and abstracts, visit the website:
http://reactivatingobjects.wordpress.com/

Ed Video Gallery
40 Baker Street, Guelph
November 16 – December 14, 2012
Reception December 14, 2012 at 7pm

Art has a complicated relationship with economics; it is both a place of
resistance, and a site of collusion with economic forces. The exhibition ‘FREE
(or best offer)’ brings together artists who use different strategies and
formal approaches in their work to deal with the aesthetics of worth,
asking the question: What does value look like?

Curated by Ufuk Gueray

Divya Mehra
Erica Mendritzki
CN Tower Liquidation
Claire Greenshaw
Annie Onyi Cheung

Craigslist

Kijiji

rounded, 2012 - video still

I am presenting a new video entitled rounded at this year’s NSCADU MFA Group Show.

Pot Luck
MFA Group Show
November 13-24

Gallery 2 & 3
Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCADU
1891 Granville Street, Halifax
Public artist talks: November 14th & 20th @ NOON

This annual group exhibition features work by NSCAD University’s first and second year MFA students. Working across a wide range of disciplines and media, this exhibition serves as a unique opportunity to expose the breadth and depth of the current MFA students’ formal and conceptual research.

Participating artists include: Jolie Bird, Kaitlyn Bourden, Annie Onyi Cheung, Kristy Depper, Conor Fagan, Cate Francis, Miho Horiike, Diana Hosseini, Karin Jones, Jiyeon Kim, Travis Melanson, Melanie Myers, Tom Seymour, Becka Viau, Bree Zorel.

2012 7a*11d Festival Catalogue, design by Zab Design

I am a member of the 7a*11d collective that curates and produces the biennial International Festival of Performance Art held in Toronto. This year’s festival takes place from October 24-28, at our main venues Mercer Union Contemporary Art Centre and Toronto Free Gallery.

The festival, now in its 9th edition, showcases the best of performance and action artists from around the world, jam-packed into 5 days. As always, invited artists hail from a wide range of generations, geographies, and artistic points of view. Canadian and international artists deliver provocative live performance, action art, sound and media. Join us also for daytime public interventions around the city. To add to the experience, every afternoon 7a*11d presents Performance Art Daily at Toronto Free Gallery, a talk-show inspired program of artist talks served up with free lunch!

We also just launched a new website, designed and created by Thoughtbubble Studio (aka the talented Sandra Liu and David Reyes), so be sure to check it out for all the latest information, blog writing, and photos.

I’m excited to be profiled by WONDEREUR, an online magazine and storefront whose aim is to highlight the work and practices of emerging artists. Thanks to Sandra Rechico for the ongoing support of my work.

New limited editions are now available through their storefront.

Guiltar Waltz / Grandfather [ Goong Goong ] – 2008 Limited edition DVD video
The women we want to be [ cha ] – 2009 Limited edition DVD video
Finational – 2009 Original framed flag
Finational – 2012 Limited edition C-prints in collaboration with photographer David Reyes
I want more – 2012 Limited edition performance object
walking chimes: corktown to rosedale [ part 1 ] – 2012 Limited edition DVD video

“Each week, Wondereur unveils a story and a storefront for a new contemporary artist. Leading figures in local art scenes around the world agree to be Wondereur’s talent spotters, finding and endorsing artists who are under the radar. Wondereur is the outcome of a creative collaboration between designers, journalists and entrepreneurs.” – Wondereur team

Through their great iPad app (or their Web app if you don’t own an iPad), you can read stories about emerging artists, have a glimpse into the artist’s practice through a photojournalist’s lens, and shop for art! You have a window of 3 weeks to purchase a curated selection of work by each artist.

Thanks to Chie Kajiwara and Daisuke Takeya, as well as their fantastic group of volunteers who have been traveling to recovering neighbourhoods in Japan.

Please take some time to visit the new Field Trip Project official website to find out more about the organizers, participating artists, future exhibition venues, as well as different ways to participate and support this project.

Below is a video of the Field Trip Project’s visit to Kibounokane, a temporary shopping street, in Onagawa. The sound of walking chimes speckle the soundscape.

See more about my Field Trip Project work, walking chimes randoseru.

Also, walking chimes: Corktown to Rosedale is a subsequent sound and video work that was made during the delivery of the backpack to Daisuke Takeya, the curator.

Untitled [ black + grey ] will be part of NSCADU’s exhibit at Port Loggia Gallery.

PORT Loggia Gallery

First year NSCAD students in receipt of Entrance Awards will have their work displayed as part of the First Impressions Exhibit opening at The Port Loggia Gallery, from 5:30 until 7:30 pm, on Wed, Sept 5th.

Above: Preparatory sketch for Woven Grass Nature Fort.

Rick and I have posted our resulting projects for Physical Futures Initiative‘s experimental project Forts. Take a look here, and check out what other artists have been making, writing, and thinking about, in exploration of forts.

Video still, walking chimes: Corktown to Rosedale (Delivery walk)

This is a new video work in progress, to be completed very shortly.

Video stills have been posted in the projects section. This video mixes field recordings and visuals documented from the walking chimes randoseru‘s first trip out. Used Japanese elementary school backpacks (or randoseru) were given to 40+ artists who are each commissioned by curator/artist Daisuke Takeya to re-imagine these packs for the upcoming traveling exhibition, Field Trip project.