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VIDEO WALL PAST
Reel Asian Canadian Artist Spotlight on PAUL WONG
SPECIAL
EVENT
Artist
talk and Reception
Monday, November 10th
MIST Theatre, CCIT Building
6pm: Reception
7pm: Artist Talk/Video Screening
WONG-MO-BILE-A-GO-GO:
Movies & Mischief aboard a free shuttle bus
Departs at 6pm from the 401 Richmond St. West parking lot to the University
of Toronto Mississauga Campus with en-route screenings. Returns at
9pm.
VIDEO WALL: November 3 - 19, 2008
Running
in a Maze, 2007
3 minute video loop
Running in a Maze features an abstracted video of young women and men playfully chasing one another in a maze created by artist Charles Rea. The layering of architectural forms and spaces in conjunction with abstracted text creates a visual labyrinth in which multiple mirrored surfaces collide. Wong’s video documents Rea’s Mirror Maze, an installation consisting of symbols and patterns painted onto large convex security mirrors. The mirrored planes and cryptic text used to decipher information reference modern information systems and other myriad forms of technology. Splicing and fusing of architectural forms and transparent walls in this maze simulate an environment of reflected and reflecting surfaces that parallel Wong’s interest in discovering his own identity.
BIOGRAPHY
Since his teenage
years, Paul Wong has used video as mirror and probe,
both to discover his own identity and to interact with the world at
large. Based in Vancouver, he is a video art pioneer and recipient
of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art and Canada’s Governor
General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. He is known for his
tough engagement with issues of race, sex and death. A poignant and
infectious speaker Paul Wong will be in attendance at the Toronto
Reel Asian International Film Festival, in Toronto and Mississauga,
to contextualize his practice as video artist for over 30 years.
Presented in partnership with the Toronto Reel Asian International Festival and the Office of Arts and Culture at the City of Mississauga, with the assistance of the Malton Public Library and Community Centre.
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival celebrates the 12th annual festival November 12 – 16, 2008. For more information and a full list of festival activities, please go to www.reelasian.com
DON'T
GO INTO THE WOODS!
Curated by David Poolman
October
13 - November 2, 2008
Don’t Go Into the Woods brings together the work of four video artists who have chosen to investigate contemporary ideas of isolation, surveillance, displacement, and propaganda through horror. These artist’s non-narrative videos both sample and acknowledge the productions and narratives developed in this b-Movie genre.
October
13 - 16
Barbara Stratman
In Order Not To Be Here, 2002
33 minute single channel video
October
17 - 22
Justin Waddell
Horror, 2000
120 minute single channel video
October
23 - 27
Jeremy Drummond
Prevention Tank, 2003
6 minute single channel video
(Excerpt from Home Is Where You’re Happy, 31 minutes, Colour/B&W,
2003)
October
28 – November 2
Tasman Richardson
Eye Candy, 2005
3 minute, 56 second single channel video
*Barbara Stratman video still courtesy of the Video Data Bank
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Vincent Sheridan
September
21 – October 12, 2008
Birdflux, 2007
6 minutes, 4 second video loop
Animation, 2007
3 minutes, 32 second video loop
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Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
September 8 - 21, 2008
A Year in the Life of the World, 2006 - present
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Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War
January 17 - March 2, 2008
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Jon Sasaki's Six Shaggy Dog Stories
10 December - 15 January, 2008
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Thierry
Geoffroy
Various videos that record public interactive performances on UTM campus
and abroad
1 Nov - 9 Dec, 2007
Part of the larger exhibition, Awareness Muscle
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Benny
Nemerofsky Ramsay & Cooper Battersby TOGETHER
AT LAST
6 min / digital video / 2004
9 - 19 January, 2006
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Farheen HaQ (3 videos)
(un)covering
5 min 3 sec / digital video / 2002
drift
4 mins / digital video / 2005
Purity
is Half the Faith
1 min 33 sec / digital video / 2003
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Meesoo
Lee
Fool
4:20 minutes / colour / sound / 2001
30 November - 5 December, 2005
Meesoo
Lee
The Mystery of a Street Corner
3:28 minutes / colour / sound / 2000
22 - 29 November, 2005
Jennifer
McMackon
doubleswan
6:20 minutes / colour / sound / 2001
8 - 21 October, 2005
Day
Milman
Kipling II
7 minutes / colour / sound / 2004
25 October - 7 November, 2005
Louise
Noguchi
Crack
4 minutes / colour / sound / 2002
11 - 24 October, 2005
Peter
Fischli and David Weiss
The Way Things Go
30 minutes / colour / sound /1987
14 September - 10 October, 2005