2010 Archive - PAVED Arts

Une étendue apparemment infinie et tentaculaire (Sprawl)

PAVED — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:20:21 +0000

Featuring Centre des Arts Actuels SKOL Members: Chantel Bélanger, Véronique Malo, Karen Elaine Spencer, Jean-Ambroise Vesac.

November 5 – December 11, 2010.

Part two of a two-part collaborative exchange with SKOL in Montreal. A 24-page publication will attend both parts of the exhibition.

SKOL component facilitated by Nikki Middlemiss.

Two cities of different sizes, two distinct linguistic cultures. A multitude of possibilities in how we think about our cities, if we’re thinking about them at all. This fall Skol shares its programming with PAVED Arts in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, featuring a selection of artists at the core of each community through two group exhibitions as well as a public conversation around the issue of membership.

– Nikki Middlemiss, Facilitator

Une étendue apparemment infinie et tentaculaire (Sprawl) features the work of Chantel Bélanger, Véronique Malo, Karen Elaine Spencer, and Jean-Ambroise Vesac, all very active artists and members of the Centre des arts actuels SKOL in Montreal. In addition to the gallery installation, this component of the PAVED-SKOL exchange will feature a billboard project by Karen Elaine Spencer, namely a provocative postcard message addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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Roadside Attractions: From A to B and Back Again

PAVED — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:36:12 +0000

Victoria Stanton – Montreal, QC

Aug 6th to Aug 28th, 2010

For the last two years Victoria Stanton has been exploring a traveling performance called Roadside Attractions. Asking questions such as: How do you show a transitional space? Where are the interstices between leaving and arriving? What are our strategies for getting there? Roadside Attractions is an unconventional travelogue that is more interested in the journey and the acclimatization, than in the final, definitive destination.

Having brought this process of site-specific performance for the camera to seven cities and towns both in Canada and abroad (Carleton-sur-Mer, QC; Leeds, UK; Gabriola, BC; Hull, QC; Assemini, Sardinia; Berlin, Germany; Toronto, ON), an exhibition of video and photo Roadside Attractions: From A to B and Back Again will portray the culmination of this series of meditative micro-interventions since 2008. Focusing on the parallels between performance and travel, and on a potentially destabilized relationship to place, this exploration of transitional space examines comprehensive states of “performative consciousness,” investing a performative presence within multiple locations, while addressing notions of connectedness, (dis)orientation, abandon, and transformation.

Prior to the exhibition Stanton will be bringing the research process to Saskatoon in the form of a short residence; visually mapping and documenting a succession of “flash-landmarks” – sites that become instant points of orientation on a variety of routes leading her to and from the place where she’ll be residing. A montage of these micro-performances will become the backdrop for a gallery performance on the night of the opening: projected looped video segments accompanying subtle, repetitive actions, punctuated by inter- textual narration of reflections related to being a body in transit/transition and to ideas of what it means to be, or to call a place, “home.”

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Sprawl

PAVED — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:32:41 +0000

Terry Billings, Scott Rogers, Jordan Schwab and Biliana Velkova

September 10th – October 16th, 2010.

PAVED Arts component curated by David LaRiviere.
SKOL component curated by Nikki Middlemiss.

For a complete copy of the “Sprawl” Essay click here

(Part one of a two-part collaborative exchange with Galerie SKOL in Montreal. A 24-page publication will attend both parts of the exhibition.)

In a western and European contemporary sense, the mentality which actively forges into the land is one that arrives alongside of the oil age as an established given. Here is a conception of urbanity realized with a butter-knife, the ideal being a variation of ownership dictated to by colonial values and actively colonizing horizons. The upcoming group exhibition, selected from the membership of PAVED Arts, was conceived of as a cross-section encounter with just such a situation, fully trusting to meet with a critical, vibrant and engaged artistic register.

SPRAWL features the work of Terry Billings, Scott Rogers, Jordan Schwab, and Biliana Velkova, whose four critically engaged projects variously examine the “western” experience from the inside. While some common ground exists, curator David LaRiviere was more interested in developing a conversation around the idiosyncratic lines of each artist’s work, thereby avoiding generalization in deference to an actively evolving political engagement. Reflecting on a variety of social concerns, these artists are first of all children of their environment, whereby the real fun begins through an expression that develops critical thought.

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I.D

PAVED — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:42:45 +0000

K.C. Adams and Arlea Ashcroft

June 26th to July 24th, 2010.

Curated by Liz Barron – Winnipeg, MB.

I.D. Guest Curator Liz Barron looks at the issue of difference within an online environment, and how the participants identities are homogenized rather than viewed as individuals. Both Artists Arlea Ashcroft and KC Adams produced new works on their interpretations of the impact of new media within the Aboriginal context and to investigate how creative practices can be used to understand and transform the gallery experience.

Ashcroft is a self-taught artist who is primarily a painter. Her artwork stresses the visual articulation of the female gaze and is rooted in her own anecdotal and autobiographical and mythological meanderings. For I.D. Ashcroft Ashcroft is generating a new media work situated within the social networking sphere of facebook, and involving the construction of a “gift” application. Participants will be asked to identify with some 200 possible gift “objects” in terms that pose the choice between Métis, Métis Not.

KC Adams work also transforms the gallery exhibition space and redirects the viewer to an online environment. The audience directly engages with the work on the web, and plays a game. The game, Truth, Dare, or Double Dare, takes the viewer into a public performance in which they participate. Selecting your game play from photographs, the viewer is asked to identify themselves within the general public.

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Larsen surf-mixing plan model

PAVED — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:15:46 +0000

Thomas Bégin
May 14th to June 12th, 2010

For a complete copy of the “New Age Doom” essay click here

Thomas Bégin’s enigmatic installation work has taken many forms, often incorporating machinic or kinetic elements into constructions that are guided by the interactions of the gallery visitor. With the current project at PAVED Arts, entitled Larsen surf-mixing plan model, Bégin will construct a self-generative sound structure by using the very simple means of Larsen Feedback. Starting from the classic structure “electric guitar-amplifier-speaker” the artist will direct vibrations emanating from the speaker cone directly to the guitar strings, thus creating a “mechanical feedback system” that operates on the same physical premise of an electronic oscillator. In order to control the sound a complex of wires running between different speakers and guitar strings will constitute a “net”, in some cases interfering with the signal as much as enhancing it. In so doing the sounds can be modified and take on the life of a moving pattern. Bégin will in effect create a self generated sound piece from the basic components of guitar- amplifier-speaker-wire-elastic, resulting in a network of vibrating and pulsing wires that produce a continuously shifting wave form.

Bégin’s project for PAVED Arts will commence with a short production residency whereby the artist’s process will be made public. The completed work will be launched at the opening reception on May 14^th, 2010.

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PHOBODROME

PAVED — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:47:43 +0000

PHOBODROME:
by Jean-Sébastien Gauthier

PAVED Arts

424 20th street W.
Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1 2012 8 PM (doors at 7h30)
Tickets: $10
Cash Bar (ID Req’d)

PHOBODROME is a live video performance and temporal sculpture by Saskatoon based inter- disciplinary artist Jean-Sébastien Gauthier. The work attempts to evoke a trembling balance between senses of deep nightmarish fear and childish wonderment. It is an immersive video environnement comprised of multiple live camera signals, real time projection, life size sculpture and live performance. It’s wish is to produce a visceral immediacy between the artwork, artist and viewer.

The artist will be performing and mixing video simultaneously and will be accompanied by an original audio set performed live by sound artist Jon Vaughn.

J-S Gauthier studied at Concordia University where he graduated with distinction in 2009 majoring in sculpture. His art practice and interests are in developing experiential time-based art and sculptures which confound viewer’s sense of immediacy and three-dimensional space.

The artist’s interest in sculpture originally sprung from growing up in and around the sculpture studios of his grandfather, Saskatoon sculptor Bill Epp (1930-1995). Phobodrome’s sculptures mark the artist’s first foray into presenting monumental sculptures in his home town.

This project is generously funded by the Saskatchewan Arts Board.

FYI: This work is not for the faint of heart and may not be suitable for younger viewers.

for more information visit:

www.pavedarts.ca

http://vimeo.com/jsgauthier/phobodrome tel: 371-8722

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Residual

PAVED — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:24:39 +0000

Heidi Phillips

January 15th – February 20th, 2010

Beginning January 15^th, 2010 Heidi Phillips will unveil her most recent work, entitled Residual, at PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. Residual is a multimedia installation whereby Phillips uses experimental darkroom techniques to manipulate footage of abandoned farmhouses, shacks, and churches. Several projections accompanied by multi-channel sounds transform the desolate prairie landscape into a wasteland that verges on apocalyptic. Declining physicality also occurs in the film medium itself, 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 values 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. 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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