September 11 2009

Curated by Vanessa Brown

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is excited to present Moveable City, an exhibition program that explores potentiality in the built environment. In the days of early cinema, exhibitions were held in sights of transit such as railways and arcades, paralleling the spatiovisuality of the architecture with cinematic movement (Bruno, 2002). Harkening this history, Moveable City will play off the surfaces of both outdoor infrastructure as well as the indoor studio at Cineworks'  annex  space in the Ironworks building located at 235 Alexander Street in Railtown.

Moveable City brings into reflection the layers of our subjective experience when moving in and through the built environment. This exhibition call us into encountering something beyond the tangible world by speaking to the interpenetration between the person and the surfaces, the histories, the lost, the imagined, the remembered, the desired, the retold, the destroyed, and the phantasmagoric qualities of living in a city. These works pry open the strait between perception and imagination by asking us to recognize the constant potentiality of time and place to become something radically transformed, whether through a conscious effort from the members of the civic body or through contingencies that act upon us mysteriously from without.

This exhibition is the result of SKOOL, a summer programming initiative set up to activate the center as an educational space for young cultural producers to examine the conditions of artist-run culture as well as to experiment with the current programming framework. Moveable City is a part of SWARM, a multi-evening event wherein a number of galleries open their doors to the public to showcase challenging contemporary work. This event is in its 10th cycle and is organized by the Pacific Association for Artist-Run Centres (PAARC).

Works by: Sean Arden, Ross Birdwise, Katarina Elven, Holly Schmidt, and Jamie Ward

Moveable City
Opening 11 September 2009, 7pm-12am, artists in attendance
12-18th September 2009, 1-5pm
Cineworks Annex, Ironworks Building [235 Alexander Street]

www.moveablecity.squarespace.com

Cineworks gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of our membership, volunteers and funders- the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver. A special thanks to our exhibition sponsor: Whistler Brewing Co. Cineworks also expresses sincere gratitude to the Canada Summer Jobs program, without whom this project would not have been possible.

Media Contact:
Vanessa Brown
Curatorial Assistant
Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
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