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For
Bellas, sublimity is in the details; otherwise banal objects
and gestures into the void become epiphanies through his subtle
interventions. His work is the shooting star you’ve been
waiting for all evening but missed while blinking. Emphasis
is placed on the experience of creating these objects and gestures,
i.e. the visual form is an artifact whose purpose is to signify
the process by which the meaning of the piece is created. Lives
and works in Chicago, IL, USA. Selected Exhibitions
2006 Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA ///
Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON /// 2005 Gallery 2, Chicago,
IL /// 2004 McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington,
IN.
Celluloid
Barockeries is a self-representation and video-scratching
crossover. It shows an anarchic ensemble of television and cinema
snippets collected from our past and present “junk culture.”
The video is a repossession of material the mass medias offered
to/imposed on us. Lives and works in Montréal,
QC, Canada. Selected Exhibitions 2007
L’Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City, QC /// 2006 Maison
de la Culture Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Montréal, QC ///
Studio 27, San Francisco, CA.
Shot
from within a gaming environment, Simulacra takes a
critical look at games that we continuously play. Just as virtual-reality
is a consensual hallucination, structures such as money, power,
and ownership are also consensual dreams. Lives and
works in Worcester, MA, USA. Selected Exhibitions
2006 Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, Aurora, CO /// 2005
Synapse Gallery, Benton Harbor, MI /// 2004 La Fabrica
Arte Contemporaneo, Guatemala City, Guatemala /// Salon de Artes
Plasticas, Mexico City, Mexico.
Dear
Letta explores the relationship between two sisters as
they investigate topics related to loss, longing, separation,
sexuality, and foreign landscapes. Lives and works in
University, MS, USA. Selected Exhibitions 2006
MB Gallery, Paris, France /// International Museum of Women,
San Francisco, CA /// 2005 PhatSpace Gallery, Sydney,
Australia /// Gallery 118, Jackson, MS
Using
footage from United States Civil War re-enactments and titled
after a nursery rhyme originally written to celebrate a victory
in the English Civil War, Humpty Dumpty addresses America’s
romantic relationship with warfare as spectacle. Lives
and works in Nacogdoches, TX, USA. Selected
Exhibitions 2006 Gardenfresh Gallery, Chicago,
IL /// Nador Gallery, Budapest, Hungary /// Hunter Museum of
American Art, Chattanooga, TN /// 2005 Southeastern
Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA.
The
world that I wish to transmit through this video is a suspended
world, floating, alleviating, happy … where each person
or object exceeds its being to join a fictional, marrowy world
rich with sensitivity … The city is deconstructed, split
up, dispersed in order to be rebuilt in a new form. Lives
and works in Le Kremlin-Bicètre, France. Selected
Exhibitions 2006 Residence Le Musset, Toulouse,
France /// 2005 Skol Gallery, Montréal, QC.
For
Bellas, sublimity is in the details; otherwise banal objects
and gestures into the void become epiphanies through his subtle
interventions. His work is the shooting star you’ve been
waiting for all evening but missed while blinking. Emphasis
is placed on the experience of creating these objects and gestures,
i.e. the visual form is an artifact whose purpose is to signify
the process by which the meaning of the piece is created. Lives
and works in Chicago, IL, USA. Selected Exhibitions
2006 Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA ///
Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON /// 2005 Gallery 2, Chicago,
IL /// 2004 McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington,
IN.
The
artist interprets the inner processes of art creation as two
performance actions. She uses her body as a text as well as
a twisting space in order to declare her painting and sculpture
universe. Lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Selected Exhibitions 2006 b.a.l.a
belle arte Lamia 06, Lamia, Greece /// 2nd International Digital
Art Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece /// onedotzero Film Challenge,
Athens, Greece /// 2004 First European Pottery Competition,
Athens, Greece.
Crouched
under the bathroom sink, I pray God might deliver me from the
perils of insatiable desire. Lives and works in
Toronto, ON, Canada. Selected Exhibitions 2006
Sixty Second Film and Video Festival, Southsea Hampshire, UK
/// Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON /// Paris Lesbian and
Feminist Film Festival, Paris, France /// herland Film and Video
Festival, Calgary, AB. 
The
individual search for personal freedom within a society with
hidden restrictions concerning one’s self-expression and
state of mind leads to endless labyrinths. The latter is especially
present in the globalised states of most European or pseudo-European
systems which allow the blending of cultures on a superficial
level and on the other create a grotesque, distorted reality
of ethnicity and lifestyle. Isolation appears in a much subtler
dimension and forces one to contemplate crucial existential
issues and dilemmas which are now mirrored through a new prism.
But first, one needs to have breakfast... Lives and
works in Salzburg, Austria/Kranj, Slovenia. Selected
Exhibitions 2006 SEAD Theater, Salzburg, Austria
/// Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria /// 2003
PTL Dance Theater, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
SLAB
contrasts absolute stillness with seizure by way of human touch.
The work is a negotiation between the stark violence of the
video and the cloyingly sweet soundtrack. Lives and
works in Chattanooga, TN, USA. Selected Exhibitions
2006 Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
/// Square Eyes, Arnhem, Netherlands /// Out Video Festival,
Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Skipping
a Heartbeat represents a contrast between innocence and
experience of love and/or loss of love. Light-hearted images
of hearts and flowers are dispersed constantly and overlay an
image of a despondent girl. As the video goes on, the movement
becomes a never-ending process and struggle where the romantic
notion of love and what the heart symbol represents can never
be met. Lives and works in Columbia, MO, USA.
Selected Exhibitions 2006 Elaine Levy
Projects, Brussels, Belgium /// Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga,
ON /// 700IS Film and Video Festival, Reindeer, Iceland ///
2004 Guillardia Gallery, San Marcos, TX.
Daddy
Goes to the Dentist transgresses the roles of parent and
child. It is acceptable for a parent to document a child’s
every movement and subsequently display the images. Often parents
will document events which would be banal, private, or even
humiliating were it an adult. However, children’s bodies
and acts are voraciously recorded. Age and relationship create
authority to sanction such documentation. In Daddy Goes
to the Dentist, I invert this role. Viewers are asked to
consider the position of each participant in an event which
is at once banal, grotesque, and humourous. Lives and
works in Mississauga, ON, Canada. Selected
Exhibitions 2006 Art Gallery of York University,
Toronto, ON /// Trent University Media Research Facility, Peterborough,
ON /// 2004 Gallery 44, Toronto, ON /// YYZ Artists
Outlet, Toronto, ON /// 2003 AWOL Gallery, Toronto,
ON.
I
chronicle the changes that my body undergoes over several weeks
as I am exercising regularly. My changing measurements are recited
by a robotic voice, further calling attention to the harsh judgment
that I subject myself to. Lives and works in
New York City, NY, USA. Selected Exhibitions
2006 Little Theatre, Rochester, NY /// 2005
Forest City Gallery, London, ON /// 2004 Eyedrum Gallery,
Atlanta, GA /// 2003 Viridian Artists @ Chelsea, New
York City, NY.
Tired
of failure, I’ve decided I am going to win. This video
is an example of my experimentation with the way the camera
shapes what is viewed. The simple site gags are not only tests
of my strength and the strength of editing, but also of the
everyday objects I use to carry out each piece. Lives
and works in Toronto, ON, Canada. Selected
Exhibitions 2006 Gladstone Hotel, Toronto,
ON /// 2005 Contemporary Art Forum | Kitchener and
Area, Kitchener, ON /// Ed Video, Guelph, ON /// 2004
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.
A
young Korean woman, new to the city, reveals her experiences
in New York. Through performance and audio montage, she unties
the binds that maintain her silence and the obstacles that block
her words, moving towards finally speaking the truth. Lives
and works in New York City, NY, USA. Selected
Exhibitions 2006 The Center for Humanities,
New York City, NY /// 2005 Arts Depot, London, UK ///
2004 DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Unravel
portrays and documents the unraveling of a scarf wrapped around
my body. This gesture suggests to me a release from commitment
while being made aware of the circumstances of one’s surroundings.
Lives and works in Montreal, QC, Canada. Selected
Exhibitions 2007 Art Gallery of Hamilton,
Hamilton, ON /// 2006 FOFA Gallery, Montréal,
QC /// 2005 Queen Elizabeth II Library, St. John’s,
NL /// 2004 Bourget Gallery, Montreal, QC /// Relais
de la Baie, Café Gallerie, Baie de Some, Noyselles sur
Mer, France /// Eastern Edge Gallery, St, John’s, NL.
I
hold my breath awaiting elevation and annihilation both with
you and alone. Lives and works in Toronto,
ON, Canada. Selected Exhibitions 2006
Sixty Second Film and Video Festival, Southsea Hampshire, UK
/// Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON /// Paris Lesbian and
Feminist Film Festival, Paris, France /// herland Film and Video
Festival, Calgary, AB.
This
documentary video features seven modern-style Russian weddings
in the town of Rudny, Kazakhstan. Weddings and deaths are the
most important events in the life of a “little man.”
Not without reason, the wedding and the funeral, being the most
important rituals, are preserved in their archaic (pagan) forms.
The music is an old Soviet song—“The Ural Rowan-Tree”—about
love between factory workers. Oksana Shatalova lives
and works in Rudny, Kazakhstan. Selected Exhibitions
2006 The Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty,
Kazakhstan /// 2005 51st Venice Biennele (Central Asia
Pavilion), Venice, Italy /// Fournos, Center for Digital Culture,
Athens, Greece /// 2nd Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary
Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan /// VAD International Festival of Video
and Digital Arts, Girona, Spain.
Gearing
up to perform, wearing a white retro bathing cap and silver
eyelashes, the swimmer displays the sparkle of performance.
Nevertheless, as the music progresses, her set of precise choreographed
movements, fluid at first, become erratic and break down. Lives
and works in Montreal, QC, Canada. Selected
Exhibitions 2006 Antimatter Film and Video
Festival, Victoria, BC /// 2005 Gladstone Hotel, Toronto,
ON /// Pixel Dance Video Festival, Thalassa, Greece /// 2004
Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON /// 2003 Richmond
Art Gallery, Richmond, BC /// Vu, Québec, QC.
The
basic action of cleaning a guitar is transformed into an ironic
musical performance. Lives and works in Istanbul,
Turkey. Selected Exhibitions 2006
Independent Arts Festival, Tielrode, Belgium /// 2005
15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Brazil
/// Republic of Artists, Havana, Cuba /// Subörb Film Festival,
Stockholm, Sweden.
A
Living City takes multiple layers of urban scenes shot
in Tokyo, Japan, and, through the use of opacity and colour
changes, creates a rhythm between the video images emphasized
by audio. The images no longer reference the actual world from
which they were taken, but resemble more a rich memory-scape
of the artist’s experiences in those places. Lives
and works in Syracuse, NY, USA. Selected Exhibitions
2005 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA /// The Lab, San
Francisco, CA /// School of Fine Arts Gallery, Bloomington,
IN /// 2004 Big Sight Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Movement
Reflection’s audio, designed for a segment of a performance
by MAP Intermedia, is a recycling and abstraction of
a single synthesizer keystroke, processed via a simple algorithm
to pass through a fluctuating virtual resonant environment.
The video is a processed recording of the piece as performed
by Brendan McCall. The abstracted video was then recycled itself,
becoming the sole theatrical lighting for that segment of the
performance. Movement Reflection takes this entire
process one step further by removing the performance ‘context’
and presenting solely those design elements created for and
by the performance itself. Live and work in Brooks,
ME & Brooklyn, NY, USA. Selected Exhibitions
2006 Artists Space, New York City, NY /// Center for
Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME /// 2005 Cooper
Union School of Art, New York City, NY /// 2004 Ayers
Island Contemporary Arts Festival, Orono, ME.
When
driving by a house one night and glancing into a window, the
viewer’s sense of time and perception is questioned. Lives
and works in Sackville, NB, Canada. Selected
Exhibitions 2006 11th Symposium of Art, Sackville,
NB /// 2005 Visualeyez Performance Art Festival, Edmonton,
AB /// Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB /// 2003 Eye Level
Gallery, Halifax, NS.
Gruppo
Sinestetico is Matteo Albertin, Massimo Perseghin, Antonio
Sassu, and Gianluca Scordo. Live and work in
Italy. Selected Exhibitions 2005 Museum
MAN, Liverpool, UK /// Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI ///
2004 London Biennale, London, UK /// Bienal do Reconcavo,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“According
to most sources, Brian Wilson began to encounter serious problems
with Smile around late November 1966. He was by then
beginning to exhibit early signs of depression and paranoia
and it is reported that, during the recording session for the
“Fire” section of the “Elements Suite”
at Gold Star Studios on 28 November, he became irrationally
concerned that the music was responsible for starting several
fires in the neighborhood of the studio.” From the 312 © Mark Prier. Design by Mark Prier. All images of artwork are © their creators.
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