PAVED Arts

Residual
Heidi Phillips
January 15th - February 20th, 2010
Reception and Performance: Saturday, January 30th at 7:30PM.

In January 2010 Phillips unveils her most recent work Residual at PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. Residual is a multimedia installation where Phillips uses experimental darkroom techniques to manipulate footage of abandoned farmhouses, shacks, and churches. The several projections accompanied by multi-channel sounds transform the desolate prairie into an almost apocalyptic, rubble of the world wasteland. Declining physicality occurs also in the medium, as Phillips includes her own process as part of the work. The roughened textures, scratch marks and chemical spills are a deliberate move to contradict the slick production in contemporary media. Residual invites the viewer to re-experience forgotten prairie dwellings as our own haunted, soulless spaces.

Influenced by Peter Tscherkassky and Janet Cardiff, Phillips art practice straddles experimental film and installation art. She sifts and searches through old films and found footage, lifting imagery and sound to recycle into her own layered and loosely structured narrative works. Increasingly, she is using old technology such as radios and television sets as sculptural objects within the space. Her film work has been screened in such festivals as Transmediale, Berlin and Images, Toronto. Phillips' installation piece Revival showed at Ace Art in Winnipeg in the spring of 2009. She completed her MFA from Transart Institute in Austria in August of 2008.

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