September 05 2008

WHO WILL GIVE UP THEIR DISTINCTIONS?
NEW VIDEO WORKS BY CLINT ENNS + DEBASHIS SINHA

Curated by cheyanne turions. An accompanying curatoral essay and critical response can be found HERE.

As new members of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres [PAARC], Cineworks is excited to participate in their first SWARM, a city-wide celebration of artist run culture.

Responding to the question, "Who Will Give Up Their Distinctions?" Clint Enns, mathematician, and Debashis Sinha, musician, offer video replies to Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society. In skin [2008], Sinha proposes a sensitive and subtle dance with our distinctions. Acknowledging that the social and political realities of our individual and collective cultures are too complex to be either "embraced" or "given up," Sinha advocates the cultivation of nuanced relationships that allow for a reaching beyond the bounds that our distinctions supposedly impose. In Prepare to Qualify [2008], Enns turns the question of whether or not common distinctions around identity can be a fruitful creative medium on its head. Instead, Enns offers a more relevant 21st century problematic: How can common distinctions around medium create fruitful identities? Discussion begins when the medium starts to question itself and so Enns wonders about his own piece, "Does breaking video game systems and playing with lo-fi electronics at the age of 28 really constitute art making?"

For one night only the works of Enns + Sinha will light up the dark room of Cineworks's studio. Find us through the back alley and stay for a cheap drink before wandering through the night to all the other amazing exhibitions SWARM has to offer.

WHO WILL GIVE UP THEIR DISTINCTIONS?
05 September 2008, 7-11pm
1131 Howe, back lane entrance
Free videos, cheap beer