Bonefeather

Callum Paterson + Nathan Gilliss   |   July 2nd – August 18, 2010

in the new aceart intern programming areas Emily’s Cove & Suez Gallery

Opening Reception: Friday July 2nd, 2010, 7pm

“Callum “Kyd” Paterson and Nathan “Houston” Gilliss are super-stylie animators out to destroy the earth with their pizzazz. Their production company, Public Ritual, makes multi-media video that combines STOP-motion, punk drawings, and weird ideas with their digital prowess. Callum is a former tree-planter turned musical prodigy. Nathan moved here from Kentucky to dominate Emily Carr. Headquarters for Public Ritual is a flashy studio filled with stringed instruments and lights and cameras and drawings and a French chick sewing fashion in the corner.  BoneFeather, their debut film, has garnered tons of attention at TIFF’s children’s festival and at student festivals across the US and Canada, most likely for what Callum calls ‘the notion of awkward sexuality in the imaginary natural kingdom.’ There is something about Public Ritual that is a little bit dangerous, a little bit genius, and totally hawt. And, they gave birth to Jesus.”
Check it: www.publicritual.ca

The co-curators of this project are Emily Doucet (University of Winnipeg) and Suzanne Morrissette (Ontario College of Art and Design), both currently interning at aceartinc. With this exhibition they are exploring the use of experimental programming space outside of the traditionally used spaces of aceartinc. ‘Emily’s Cove’ (located in the front stairwell) and ‘Suez Gallery’ (located by the washrooms) are the spaces to be employed in this project. By incorporating a portion of the set and materials used in the creation of the short film ‘Bonefeather’ the curators hope to entertain new possibilities for video display and introduce the sculptural and multi-media elements involved in the production of stop-motion animation.

stills from Bonefeather by Callum Paterson and Nathan Gilliss, courtesy of artists.

Night Shift |   Emily Rosamond   1- 30 june 2010   |   talk and party 11 June, 7pm/8pm   |   give away day June 29th 12-5pm

french follows…

For Emily Rosamond’s first solo exhibition in Manitoba, she will work with approximately one ton of used building supplies, renovation debris, discarded furniture and household items collected around Winnipeg by the local junk removal company Declutter.ca. Showing up with only a tool kit of specially chosen connective items – including hooks, chains, fluorescent plasticine, drywall mud, paint and a sculpture, she will work the night shift from June 1-19, building on the spot and without a plan, in a manner that responds to the contingencies of the materials – their scratches, cracks and other evidence of their former lives. Each morning, the space will appear different from the day before. Reaching its final stage by June 20, the changes will slow down and stop, finally pausing, masquerading as a “final” product until the end of the month, when the materials will be carted away again by Declutter, resuming their regularly scheduled activities.

Just before the installation leaves the gallery, there will be a call to the general public, inviting all interested parties to take home a piece of the installation before it disappears.

Rosamond, whose art practice has involved activities such as drawing designs with shampoo on floors, Dremelling groups of pencils into blobby shapes, hugging packages of Neo Citran, impersonating tall grasses on video, and creating an 80% scale replica of the space of her kitchen, enters this piece with a keen interest in how performative and sculptural actions can renegotiate the spaces between architecture and furniture, commodities and trash, objects and the ephemeral sense of “character” that accrues around them.

Emily Rosamond is an emerging artist, academic and educator currently based in Montreal. www.erosamon.com

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Emily Rosamond   |   Night  Shift   |   1 au 31 juin 2010   | causerie d’artiste/le boum  19 h/ 20 h, 11th Juin

Pour sa première exposition solo au Manitoba, Emily Rosamond travaillera avec environ une tonne de matériaux de construction usagés, de débris de rénovation, de meubles et d’objets ménagers jetés au rebut et ramassés aux alentours de Winnipeg par Declutter.ca, une compagnie locale de débarras. Elle se présentera avec une boîte d’outils connectifs spécialement choisis, et travaillera de nuit du 1 au 19 juin; Emily se mettra à construire sur place, sans un plan, d’une manière qui correspond aux possibilités présentées par les matériaux : les égratignures, les craques et d’autres indices qui témoignent de leurs vies antérieures. Chaque matin, l’espace aura une apparence différente que la journée précédente. En s’approchant du stade final le 20 juin, les changements vont ralentir pour enfin s’arrêter complètement, prendront une pause pour donner l’impression d’être le produit ‘final’ jusqu’à la fin du mois, quand les matériaux seront enlevés encore une fois par Declutter afin de reprendre leurs activités régulières.
Avant que l’installation quitte la galerie, il y aura un appel au public invitant les personnes intéressées à rapporter un morceau de l’installation chez eux avant qu’elle ne disparaisse.

Emily Rosamond est une artiste émergente, une universitaire et une éducatrice basée présentement à Montréal. www.erosamon.com

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end of Emily Rosamond’s  Night Shift

image credit: Liz Garlicki “Night Shift” by Emily Rosamond, 2010

Give Away Day (or GAD as we lovingly named it)
Tuesday, June 29th starting noon till 5pm.

The items used in Ms. Rosamond’s installation will be given away before
disposal. First come, first items to take.

List of items you may see for the taking…

* old windows
* small school desk
* dismantled chairs, bed frames
* scrap wood (think about all those items you want to build. this is free
stuff people)
* exercise bike
* sewing machine (?? works??)
*  sleds
* toques and other clothing items
* wool

We could go on, but you won’t want to read anymore, you want to see it…so
c’mon down!!

NO HOLDS! You must take the item that day!!

May 4-26  | Launch- May 4, 5-7pm | Curator Talk- May 4, 6pm

Curated by Naomi Hocura and Brandon Hocura

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM – www.plastic-paper.org

Daisuke Ichiba’s images are violent and beautiful. His paintings describe a delicate world haunted by Japanese phantasms and grotesqueries of moral contradictions; a world where youth and sex mingle with corruption and death. The rooms into which the viewer peeks are forbidden, as if a sliding door has been drawn back on a scene reenacted from a gothic past. This first North American exhibit will feature recent paintings and photography, as well as a selection of screenprinted books from his collection.

http://tetorahidoro.xxxxxxxx.jp/

Daisuke Ichiba started painting seriously in the eighties and in 1990 self-published his first book entitled 37 Year Old Bastard. Since then, he has continued to release a book a year, and was noticed by the great manga artist Takashi Nemoto, as well as Pakito, from the outsider art gallery, Le Dernier Cri based in Marseille, France. Since 2006, Ichiba has held solo shows in Paris, Marseille, and Switzerland, and in recent years has been pursuing photography.

PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM is an international festival that takes place May 5-8, 2010 at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg, Canada. The festival is one component of the year-round organizational activities of the Big Smash! Film Collective. PLASTIC PAPER’s programming is a mix of premieres, retrospective screenings, short films and features with special guests, workshops, multi-media presentations, installations and exhibits, artist talks, and gatherings where the artists and the audience can interact more informally.
Confirmed special guests for PLASTIC PAPER 2010 include Oscar-nominated animator BILL PLYMPTON, who will be presenting an animation master class, and puppeteer and curator HEATHER HENSON (of the illustrious Henson clan), who will be premiering a new “best of” selection of her ongoing HANDMADE PUPPET DREAMS series of independent puppet films.

Toronto-based curator NAOMI HOCURA will be appearing in person to present SECONDS UNDER THE SUN, an amazing program of contemporary Japanese animated short films on opening night, and local progressive psych band MAHOGANY FROG will be closing the festival with the premiere of a new live score for legendary animator Bruce Bickford’s work-in-progress, CAS’L’.
ADDITIONAL PREMIERES include the Oscar-nominated SECRET OF KELLS, Mamoru Hosoda’s SUMMER WARS, Priit Parn’s LIFE WITHOUT GABRIELLA FERRI and Barry Doupe’s PONYTAIL, as well as the return of the SATURDAY MORNING ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT CEREAL CARTOON PARTY!

info on Plastic Paper Festival visit: www.plastic-paper.org
PLASTIC PAPER is generously sponsored by the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

Sleep…
in the gallery

presented by ccole productions in conjunction with send + receive.

Thursday, 13 May   |   8 pm   |   $7

bring cozy things-pillows, quilts, comforters…
On Thursday May 13 come down to aceartinc. for an evening of dreamy and hypnotic sounds and visuals. This evening won’t bore you to sleep but will lull you to relax, kick-back and possibly drift off…

Featuring Vancouver drone maker Empty Love, Winnipeg sound maker Chris Bryan and a dreamy film program of shorts featuring works by local filmmakers Leslie Supnet, Clint Enns, Andrew Milne + Cam Johnson and Kelsey Braun, and Montreal filmmaker Sabrina Ratté.

Doors are at 8:00 p.m. Films to begin around 8:30 to be followed by the live sound performances.

We urge you to bring open ears and a pillow, sleeping bag or whatever makes you cozy… warm sounds, dreamy visuals and dream machine will be provided…

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bios:

EMPTY LOVE has been creating deep, organ rattling, analog drones since late 2007 in vancouver, in both the studio and live. several studio sessions, as well as some live performances have been documented on releases through vancouver based labels thankless, diadem discos, panospria, and csaf, as well as some self released items here and there. from the onset, empty love live performances have included a large visual element, often times utilizing home made props (such as dream machines, light wheels, and various other oddities), and more recently using projected visuals. several live and studio collaborations have happened with other vancouver sound artists, most of which have been released as part of the ongoing “empty love +” series.
http://www.last.fm/music/Empty+Love

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CHRIS BRYAN has been working with audio as a medium since 1996 and started performing and recording as 3×3is9 when he switched over to a primarily digital approach in 1999. Recently a decision was made to abandon the 3×3is9 moniker as he felt that the “pop” sensibility of the name no longer fit his work. Chris’ approach to sound remains the same; with live performance typically being a semi-improvised computer based set exploring the textures and contrasts within sound. Chris has performed as a solo artist, and collaboratively with artists like Jamie Drouin (Van) and Bernhard Günter (DE).
http://www.myspace.com/91909710
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LESLIE SUPNET is a Canadian artist from Winnipeg, MB. Her animated work and drawings reveal inner collective emotion, while remaining deeply connected to her own experience. Her animations have screened at various festivals, such as the Images Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Signal & Noise, Image Forum Festival in Japan, LA Film Forum and Antimatter.
http://www.sundaestories.com/
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CLINT ENNS is a video artist and filmmaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work
primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally at festivals, alternative spaces and mircocinemas.

He has recently completed a master’s degree in mathematics at the university of manitoba, and his interests include model theory of rings and modules, structuralist film, destructuralist video, and mathematics in art.
http://vimeo.com/clintenns
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MILNE/JOHNSON have been working together for the last two years. These collaborations have culminated in live mixing with 16mm projectors, contemporary dance, and performance art. Andrew Milne is a Winnipeg-based Fusion Artist with a practice in The Exchange District. His active artistic disciplines include Film, Video, Performance, Sculpture, Photography. Andrew began his career in Vancouver, moving to Winnipeg in 2006. Through processes of embodiment the work he creates is an attempt to disquiet a viewer’s current ideas of future, possibility and self. Cameron Johnson began making music through percussion. Since 2004 he has been exploring the manipulation sound and source in both solo and collaborative projects. Working exclusively with audio hardware as nontraditional instrumentation his work is attempting to welcome people into an space that they would normally find hostile.
http://vimeo.com/andrewmilne
http://www.myspace.com/thiscameraisred

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KELSEY BRAUN is currently focusing his artistic practice in sound and video to highlight the aural and visual parts of the world that remain on the periphery, using them to construct another kind of reality from within which we can either escape, or observe our own from. His recurring themes of land and proximity seek an awareness of their relationship. Such environments are explored through a contrasting and complimentary combination of media to define, connect, and re-contextualize these phenomenon. These ideas manifest as sound performance and recording, single-channel video, and installation.

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SABRINA RATTE is currently enrolled in the Master in Film Production of Concordia University in Montreal. Some of her fictions and experimental films played in Festivals such as Les Rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, and Festival International du Court Métrage à Clermont-Ferrand. She is now experimenting a lot with video imageries, eerie atmospheres and abstractions. She is also currently working on projects involving live video performances.
http://vimeo.com/user3219345

for more info about send + receive please visit: http://www.sendandreceive.org/

May 15th – May 28th, 2010

launch party will be May 14, 7:30 – 11:30 pm

Selected graduating and thesis students of the University of Manitoba’s School of Art are displaying their best at Ace Art, in an exhibition appropriately titled “Coming Out”. This show will feature work by students from the painting, drawing and sculpture departments.

Participating artists are: Christabel Lindner, Willy Carleton, Joan Larson, Emilie St Hilaire, Kara Passey, Stephanie Graham, Chantel Mierau, Cullen Bingemen, Joshua Roach, Laura Magnusson, Sherrie Rennie, Ryan Klatt and Echo Ying Xie.

This group of artists has obtained a 3 or 4 year Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (studio). Their final year represents a culmination of their art studies; this exhibition is displaying the top work of all 13 artists. All participants are un-influenced from each other, despite working in such close quarters, creating a very diverse collection of art. From the delicate knitted work of Chantel Mierau, to the heavy industrial work of Sherrie Rennie, this exhibition shows the differences between the artists, their materials, and their content. Many graduates from the School of Art pursue Master’s degrees or work independently as emerging artists in Winnipeg and abroad.

The opening night launch party will be May 14, 7:30 – 11:30 pm and guests are invited to take part in the debutante theme with the option of dressing in formal attire.

SATURDAY, 15 MAY
Inland/Outland – Iceland
Svavar Jónatansson and Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson
aceartinc.
2−290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg
8pm, Free Admission

If you can’t get your hands on one of those Iceland Express direct-to-Reykjavik flights but you’ve always wanted to go, Svavar Jónatansson’s epic photographic examination of Iceland’s wild periphery, an intricately woven immersive multiple projection presentation is the antidote.   Accompanied by an evocative soundtrack composed by acclaimed GusGus lead singer Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson. Both artists will be in attendance.

Svavar Jónatansson started photography in his teens. Shooting this and that during his early years, he moved towards a focus on people, photographing intimate personal relationships and documentary-style photography of musicians and artist, as well as street photography during travels in Europe, Israel and USA. He has written articles on his travels for the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið, as well as for a series of travel blogs.

Svavar’s work with renowned nature photographer James Balog has influenced his ideas and approach to photography. the present culmination of all that is him, has past, present and possible future, comes together in his latest work, Inland/Outland-Iceland. Svavar studies sociology and anthropology at the University of Iceland, and the Núna(now) presentation of Inland/Outland-Iceland will represent his first ever public exhibition.

Inland/Outland-Iceland will be performed at aceartinc. on Saturday, May 15. A Q&A with the artist will follow.

http://inlandoutland.squarespace.com/

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Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson is an Iceland solo artist and lead singer of the bands GusGus, Nýdönsk and Esja. Daníel Ágúst has been part of the local and international music scene for twenty years; in 1989 he participated in the Eurovision Song Contest for Iceland with the song Það sem enginn sér. He finished in 22nd place, scoring no points.

Daníel took a break from GusGus in the year 2000, and has acted on stage and screen and composed music for film, dance and television. His first solo album, Swallowed a Star, was released in 2005. He rejoined GusGus with the releases of Forever in 2007 and 24/7 in 2009, touring extensively in Europe. He is currently working on his second solo album.

Daníel will be performing solo on Thursday May 13th at Plug In ICA. He’ll also perform his original score to Svavar Jónatansson’s Inland/Outland-Iceland at aceartinc. on Saturday, May 15.

artist’s website: http://www.myspace.com/danielagust

for a full schedual of the festival please visit: http://www.nunanow.com/

Here are some of the photographs from the pinhole photography workshop participants…

image: camera obscura-inside foyer at aceartinc. photo credit: Scott Stephens

French follows in “more”…

Camera Obscuras around the Exchange…Sunday April 25th
Thanks to the generous support of the Manitoba Lotteries, aceartinc. has commissioned local artists, Sarah Anne Johnson & Andrew Milne, to create a camera obscura in ace and other locations around the city which will be free for pleasure seekers to visit in the run up to World Pinhole Photography Day 2010. And as a special workshop, Sarah and Andrew will show the ArtCity youth how to build a camera obscura in their centre!

A camera obscura (from the Latin for “dark room” or “darkened chamber”) projects an image from the outside of a room onto a flat surface inside via a carefully positioned hole. The external scene is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective eerily preserved.

Standing inside a camera obscura is effectively like standing in a large pinhole camera. It’ll give you a unique understanding of how pinhole photography works. But as importantly, it is an enchanting experience, one which imparts a sense of the mystery involved in art-making.

Images from partner locations…

MAWA
611 Main Street, R3B 1E1  |   204 949 9490   |   www.mawa.ca

photo credit: Andrew Milne

La Maison Des Artistes Visuels Francophone
219 Provencher Boulevard, R2H 0G4   |   204 237 5964   |   www.maisondesartistes.mb.ca

photo credit: Andrew Milne

Plug In ICA
286 McDermot Avenue, R3B 0T2   |   204 942 1043   |   www.plugin.org

photo credit: Andrew Milne

ArtCity
616 Broadway, R3C 0W8   |   204 775 9856   |   www.artcityinc.com

photo credit: Andrew Milne

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All venues open SUNDAY 25th April 2010, World Pinhole Photography Day. Please contact individual venues for access to the camera obscuras.

documentation of performances on April 25th…

Dance performances in the camera obscuras
Local dancer, Ming Hon, is creating  a dance that will be performed within some of the camera obscuras. You are invited to watch the eruptions and flutterings that take place when the outdoors goes indoors. Outside Plug In ICA at 2pm

Ming Hon is an independent dance artist and choreographer. Ming’s main artistic intent is to connect her inherent natural movement vocabulary of moving in an off-kilter and unsettled way with her interest in surreal conceptual narratives and caricatures.

photo credit: Liz Garlicki, Ming Hon “untitled”, 2010

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4×5ft Land Camera Project
Andrew Milne is constructing a 4 foot by 5 foot land camera with support from the Winnipeg Arts Council. The huge camera will be used to capture an image of the aceartinc. building facade from the parking lot at Princess and McDermot on the afternoon of the 25th April. The resulting image will be on display at Platform from the 27th April until the 4th May.

photo credit: Andrew Milne

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Liz Garlicki and Lyndsay Ladobruk
Liz Garlicki is a Winnipeg artist who explores gentrification and advertising culture based on the milieu surrounding her.

Miss Lyndsay Ladobruk is a Winnipeg performance artist. Here esthetic of humor mixed with serious messages is something that she uses to draw in and seduces an audience and then leave them examiningtheir own life.

Outside aceartinc. at 2:30pm. Other obscura locations depending on our mood we’ll perform for you.

photo credit (left): Liz Garlicki. Image from left to right: jaymez, Miss Metro & Loula, David Leckie, Lyndsay Ladobruk “looking for trouble”,  intervention performance, 2010

photo credit (right) Jude Thomas. image: Liz Garlicki “Ain’t No Tree High Enough”, performance  2010

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Stories
hannah_g will tell stories in another of the camera obscuras. Outside aceartinc. at 1:30pm

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An Open Call for Winnipeg-based Artists
Showing Up, Speaking Out
Independent curator, Milena Placentile, invites submissions from Winnipeg-based artists to participate in a community arts project taking place from September 3 – October 5 at aceartinc.

Showing Up, Speaking Out seeks to explore the extent to which artists can motivate and facilitate civic participation by connecting local, national, and international artists with local communities through the collaborative production of ephemeral artworks deployed in public spaces throughout Winnipeg.

One goal of this project is to enhance relationships between artists and diverse communities through the formation of a socially resonant context that will highlight the creative, critical work of artists while providing unique opportunities for community members to collaborate in manners well poised to increase confidence in recapturing the public sphere as a place for thoughtful idea exchange.

The presentation site for this project, aceartinc., will serve as a staging ground where people will collaborate to determine projects, plan the delivery of their interventions, and make props. The venue will simultaneously be a site for exhibiting ephemera related to each action (i.e. used props, photographs, digital video, messages to other participants). It will also be a destination for discussing the potential impact of each action and reflecting on what participants might have gained from their involvement.

All activities will be supported by a blog/online discussion forum (http://showingupspeakingout.blogspot.com/) and a downloadable/print-on-demand publication including critical responses by local writers.

The artists confirmed at this time include:
***** Inge Hoonte (Netherlands/Brooklyn, USA) will work with participants to address the issue of recreation in public space
***** Deborah Kelly (Sydney, Australia) will work with community members to respond to issues pertaining to “living together” (i.e. sexual, racial, and gender diversity)
***** Tomas Jonsson (Calgary) will work with participants to address the issue of social housing/homelessness

Showing Up, Speaking Out seeks the participation of one or two additional artists to propose a theme around which she/he will develop an intervention in collaboration with other members of the community.

Submission Requirements:
In addition to the mandatory requirement that applicants be based in Winnipeg, each artist is requested to submit the following information via email to showingupspeakingout@gmail.com:

***** Artist CV including current contact information (mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address) (3 pages maximum)
***** A one page statement expressing why she/he would like to participate in this project and what experience she/he has working with others in a collaborative fashion. Please remember that this opportunity is open to artists at any stage of their career – emerging, mid-career and established.
***** A one page statement about the theme she/he would like to explore in collaboration with community members. Examples include: policing, water stewardship, public transit, parking lots, bicycle lanes, food security, waste management, government accountability, etc.
***** Support material in the form of 10 digital images of past work — .jpg preferred; no greater than 72 dpi or a resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels. Up to two videos may also be submitted as support material and should be available for viewing online (i.e. youtube, vimeo, etc). Please remember to provide a descriptive list of all images and video including title, date, and year created, as well as any other brief details relevant to understanding context.

Each participating artist will be paid a fee in accordance with the CARFAC rate equivalent to a solo exhibition to cover activity spanning approximately 10 days over the course of the exhibition period (September 3 – October 5). The dates of participation are flexible and will be agreed upon in advance of the project launch. Each participating artist will also have access to a budget of approximately $400 for production materials or equipment rental as necessary.

Please direct enquiries and submissions to: showingupspeakingout@gmail.com

Please note that all submissions must be received by Monday, July 5, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. In order to ensure fairness, late submissions can not be accepted. Submissions will be selected through a jury including constituents from the various groups described below.

This project is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts as well as the energetic and enthusiastic partnership of: aceartinc., Art City, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Urban Shaman Gallery, and Video Pool Media Arts Centre, among others to be announced.

This project is included as part of Culture Days Manitoba (September 24 – 26, 2010).

World Pinhole Photography Day   |   25th April 2010
Pinhole Photography Workshop for members, April 11 & 18

image by participant Michelle Slota

shot from a Christmas Tea tin 1 min 30 second exposure

April 11th at aceartinc.-  2nd flr. 290 McDermot Ave.  time: 12-5pm

April 18th at Platform Centre for Photographic  + Digital  Arts – 121-100 Arthur St.

what to bring:
*at least three containers to make into pinhole cameras. this could be a shoe box, pringles container, tin cookie box, tin coffee container. basically think of a box that has very little light going into it and that can be sealed. this is less work when you tape the edges etc.

*scissors (you will be cutting paper, duct tape and maybe some tin. so don’t bring your special sewing kind. hee hee)

*an exacto knife (not necessary but if you want to bring it will go faster). one that has a bigger blade not for delicate work.

*needles with small piointy tips (this is also optional)

*your payment of $60.00 if you have not paid.

To celebrate the international extravaganza of DIY, photography aceartinc. and PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital art are joining forces and pooling resources to impart the skill of experimental pinhole photography to a few of our respective members.

Last year’s workshop was a roaring success- totally oversubscribed and gorgeously over-achieving. Book your place on this year’s workshop and learn the gentle craft of pinhole photography and get your pictures uploaded onto the WPPD website!

This workshop will take place over two Sundays with local artist, Sarah Crawley.

Sunday 11th to make the camera  and Sunday 18th April to develop the photos.

Participants will learn how to make a camera, take pictures with it, develop their images and finally upload them onto ace’s website as well as the official W.P.P.D. website, and exhibit the results on PLATFORM’s members wall P121.

Participants need to bring scissors, masking tape, a smock and 3 to 6 containers such as shoeboxes, Pringle cylinders, biscuit tins, film canisters etc. (round containers are preferable) but all other supplies (photo paper, film processing, paint, etc and all tuition is included in the subsidised $60 fee- a deal if ever a Winnipegger saw one! If you are interested but broke, get in touch with either ace or Platform.

There are very limited places and these will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, so hurry!

gallery@aceart.org   |   outreach@platformgallery.org

Pinhole Artist Collective   |   through the eye of a needle

in ace’s Project Room, April 9 – May 1, 2010

through the eye of a needle, shows how a group of artists (Marian Butler, Sandra Campbell, Sarah Crawley,  William Eakin, Lori Fontaine, Jacquelyn Hébert, Beth Johnson, Jen Loewen and Natasha Peterson) can be united in the process of exploring their intentions and sharing their experimentations.  Pinhole photography is about capturing light through an opening (a lens) the size of the prick of a needle.  You never quite know what you are going to get, but that is what fascinates, mesmerizes and intrigues us about the images we make.  The mystery of the way the light moves during these long exposures allows us to see the world in a new way and this invites the viewer to explore the spaces between our photographic intent and the results.

PAC (Pinhole Artist Collective) is a collective of artists interested in exploring the artistic medium of pinhole photography. In regular gatherings, the collective engages in both constructive criticism and artistic creation. Growing out of the spirit of World Pinhole Photography Day and a DIY artistic philosophy, they are hands-on, resourceful, and playful.  They use analogue and digital processes and are, from time to time, nomadic with their pinhole practices.

Look out for the Pinhole Artist Collective’s upcoming summer show at PLATFORM: centre for photographic + digital arts…

above image by Jacquelyn Hébert
exchange #1 and was made with a three-hole pinhole camera in 2009
www.jacquelynhebert.ca

1st of April,  2010  7pm | stories  730pm   830pm|   Free

Uncle Glennie is a seasoned (marjoram and turmeric) reader who has been reading stories aloud since he was a very small boy. He is now getting quite hoarse.
Known for his ability to hold an audience in the palm of his hand (it is very large) Uncle Glennie has sometimes drawn large crowds for his performances. A few of the sturdier individuals involved have even managed to sit all the way through one.
Uncle Glennie has been compared to many famous writers and performers but never favourably.

On the evening of April the First, Uncle Glennie will be reading selections from the Persiflage canon. Samples of this can be found at: www.persiflage.ca .

Frozen In Time, Switzerland    |    Nathalie Daoust
19th March – 1st May, 2010

Daoust presents a series of hand tinted, black and white images taken with a pinhole camera. Each photograph reveals a pervading sense of introspection, a desire to escape reality by reinventing the truth.

“Since my very first experiments in photography I have been fascinated by human behaviour and its various realities and by the ever-present desire to escape and live in a dream world. The aesthetic of my new project enriches visual exploration at the border between dream and reality, conveying a feeling of escape.” ~Nathalie Daoust

FRIDAY, MARCH 12 8pm till midnight
here at aceartinc. 2nd flr-290 McDermot Ave.

aceartinc.’s turnaround is a series of events/ performances/ installations that occur between the uninstall and install of regular exhibitions at the gallery. Operating on a fly-by-night ethos, turnaround enables performers to take advantage of a large space to experiment with and test ideas. Preference is given to projects which are innovative, mischievous, passionate and enthusiastic. It is an opportunity for community building between various artists and audiences in Winnipeg.

To launch the aceartinc.turnaround series, Winnipeg media artist mrghosty has created a concept dance party/ mixer/ installation: transmission alpha.

Inspired by flash mobs and pirate broadcast media; mrghosty has assembled local talent and low wattage broadcast technology to bring you a new experience using old technology. Rather than using a traditional party set up of sound system and video projection, all media in the space will be broadcast over FM Radio and UHF television signals.

The Djs will be playing their mixes and broadcasting them live into the space, where guests can listen to them on portable radios and headphones (which are provided :)). Giving the participants the chance to put on their headphones and dance (creating a silent dance party a la flashmob), or to simply remove the headphones and mingle.

Mrghosty will be adding a live video mix broadcast over UHF to scores of vintage televisions of various size, and age installed throughout the gallery. This will also be the events primary source of light, the vintage glow of cathode ray tubes. Keeping with the theme of vintage technology, classic radio and television programs and commercials will be thrown into the mix.

Featuring fantastic local Djs:

THE SHAKE (Lotek and Manalogue)
DJ Cyclist (lebeato)
DJ King Kobra (Live PA set)
DJ Beekeeni (Vav Jungle)
DJ Kasm (balanced records)

live video mix and installation concept: mrghosty.

Admission is $5 and proceeds go to cover team ghosty’s cost of the tech for the event and to raise funds for aceartinc.. 50/50 split.

*portable FM radios with earbud headphones are free with admission.
BUT!!!! feel free to bring your own portable radios! Those old wacky headphone radios or your old walkman :)

So come on out, pop in your headphones, and raise some money for your local artist run center!

http://www.aceart.org
http://www.mrghosty.net

Daniel Barrow

No One Helped Me book launch & performance of Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry

Tuesday 16 February   |   7.30 pm   |   free

Please book in advance to avoid disappointment

204 944 9763   |   gallery@aceart.org

aceartinc. cordially invites you to a free performance of Every Time I see Your Picture I Cry by Daniel Barrow to celebrate the release of his new art book, No One Helped Me, published by aceartinc. with the generous support of the Winnipeg Arts Council’s New Creations Fund. This is a beautifully produced, limited edition, complete with a 7” record (voice by Daniel Barrow, music by Amy Linton; B side by The Ballet) to accompany your page turning. It also contains exclusive essays by Jon Davies and Steven Matijcio.

Awarded the 2008 Images Prize at its premiere, Daniel Barrow’s newest “manual animation” combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent telephone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city. In the late hours of the night, he sifts through garbage, collecting personal information and then traces pictures of each citizen through the windows of their homes as they sleep. What he doesn’t yet realize is that a deranged killer is trailing him, murdering each citizen he includes in his book, thus rendering his cataloging efforts obsolete. The garbageman is a failed artist who fears becoming subject to the grip of something overwhelming. This animation traces his attempts to slow down and creatively reflect, in a process of coming to terms with his own self-loathing and fear.

ISBN: 978-0-9864732-0-3
Edition of 500.

more about the artist and to order book: www.danielbarrow.com

or purchase No One Helped Me at Art Metropole:  http://www.artmetropole.com

aceartinc. & Rainbow Resource Centre- RRaCe Peer Project for Youth (ages 15-24)

Showing of RRaCe – Peer Project for Youth video project
part of The Fantasia Affair “Gender Outlaws” with Kate Bornstein show
Saturday February 27, at the West End Cultural Centre – 586 Ellice Ave.
doors open 7:15pm
show time 8pm.
tix $10.00 – all ages, rush seating
Tickets are available at the Rainbow Resource Centre (170 Scott St.) and the University of Winnipeg Info Booth (515 Portage Ave.).

aceartinc. and the Rainbow Resource Centre are very chuffed to let you know that the films the queer youth made with Peter kingstone as part of our WAC Youth Arts Initiative partnership (RRaCe) will be screened at the West End Cultural Centre as part of the Kate Bornstein event!

This project was made possible by the generous support of the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Winnipeg Foundation through the Youth Arts

aceartinc. is is committed to supporting queer artists and cultural producers and  has therefore partnered with the Rainbow Resource Centre to create a long-term friendship that will bring queer youth to aceartinc. to see and respond to exhibitions, participate in activities, use the Project Room and all our resources and become and remain members.

aceartinc. has been looking to raise its profile with Winnipeg queer youth in order to invest in future audiences and artists and continue to be relevant to the queer community. Working with the 2009/2010 programmed exhibitions will provide a variety of contexts in which queer youth can work with professional artists to place their identities in different cultural, social and political contexts and explore their creativity in an experimental and safe atmosphere. We want to skill them up to create your their culture and to think critically about the culture we are surrounded by.

There will be four workshops with the four exhibiting artists at aceartinc. Each of these workshops will involve art making and discussion. The artworks made during these workshops will be exhibited in a special exhibition which aceartinc. will host in June 2010 as part of Winnipeg Pride.

http://www.rainbowresourcecentre.org/youthprogramming.htm