April 24 2009

With 36-years as a backbone of Vancouver’s Indie media art scenes, VIVO Media Arts Centre has conjured an eclectic phantasmagoria for the 9th Annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival–three days and evenings of provocative and introspective contemporary media and sound art. For the first time, Cineworks is stoked to be participating in this fevered dialogue.

SIGNAL & NOISE MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
23-26 April 2009
All day + all night long
Vivo Media Arts Centre [1965 Main Street]

Cineworks will be presenting the following works on Friday, 24 April, at VIVO :

Christina Battle's cinematic installation suddenly everything changed. Looking back, the clues were clear. But by the time the emergency crews took flight it was too late. Things will never be the same. This work will show for the duration of the festival in the RGB lounge. Curated by cheyanne turions.

The Enduring, a short program featuring Monique Moumblow's Six Years and Marianna Milhorat's this is not an anchor, this boat is not an anchor. The relentless, disinterested march of time colours all events in fading shades of grey. What endures of our experiences are these holes, present by way of their absence, framed on either side by emotional anticipations and repercussions. Highlighting a tendency to privilege mental realities over physical ones, the films of The Enduring reveal a fragility in the distance that separates memory from its referent. Curated by cheyanne turions.

Althea Thauberger's dual 16mm projection Chelsea Girls.  "Last spring, Vancouver based artist Althea Thauberger was invited and commissioned by the Victoria Art Gallery to produce a project in conjunction with our presentation of Andy Warhol:  Larger Than Life, organized and circulated by the Winnipeg Art Gallery.  Intended to examine Warhol’s work from a post millennial perspective and, for a general audience which widely regards Warhol as a contemporary figure, to firmly place his oeuvre within the relevant but historical past, Thauberger’s project is informed by a contemporary insight on Warhol’s legacy, reflecting the psycho-social issues of today...The final product is an exchange of narratives, the distillation of a story passed back and forth from resident to actor, director to camera person, and back again.  In this Chelsea Girls, authorship is shared, new contingencies introduced, monumentality and fixed identity frayed, worn, handled by many, and finally, within the Gallery setting, witnessed and transformed again by the public telling of tales.  Warhol’s films ultimately, over time, reveal the vulnerability of their characters, whose desires compelled them into speaking positions, and through history, through time, into emblems of the wholistic and constant nature of desire’s eternity.  Thauberger’s Chelsea Girls attests to the anachronistic and global quality of that desire" [Lisa Baldissera, Curator of Contemporary Art].

see www.signalandnoise.ca  for full festival details.

A speical thanks to Electric Company Theatre for their support of this exhibition.

Image Credit: Chelsea Girls by Althea Thauberger, courtesy of the artist and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.