//2009
February 6 - March 20, 2009
//Diary of a Nomad
Jude Norris
Essay by Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Diary of a Nomad explores the effect of post-modern technologies and attitudes on nomadic cultural approaches to sustenance, lifestyle and survival. Using three projection screens hung like the sides of an open square, Norris constructs a softer inner room from which to consider the gallery as a culturally influenced 'chamber of experience'. Within this portable space, the artist projects often-dispirited panoramas contrasting urban/rural and Indigenous/immigrant migratory cycles. These digital landscapes are both a celebration of the land and a critique of western landscape traditions.
Plains Cree-Métis artist Jude Norris is originally from Alberta and is now based in Toronto and New York. Norris is a recent recipient of a Chalmer's Arts Fellowship and has received awards from the Canada Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. Her work has been exhibited at Harcourt House in Edmonton, Grace Exhibition Space in New York, the Art Gallery of Penticton and Grunt Gallery in Vancouver.
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April 11 - May 22, 2009
//Inhuman Resources
Mez Breeze, Liz Solo
Curator: Jeremy Turner
Inhuman Resources features two performances in the mainstream virtual world of Second Life. Using this innovative online format, the artists explore the qualitative properties of being "inhuman," "alien" or "other" in a virtual world. The artists will also produce virtual performance residue that will be exhibited over the duration of the exhibition.
Liz Solo aka Lizsolo Mathilde (St. John's) will perform Live Alien Home Birth during which she will call on her friends Second Front - and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse for support and coaching. Solo began exploring virtual communities in 2000 and has performed in such virtual worlds as: Second Life, World of Warcraft, Achaea and Digitalspace Traveler. Solo is also a stage actor and musician.
Mez Breeze aka Netwurker Twin (Australia) will use multiple manifestations of her core identity to coordinate a post-human and trans-dimensional literary ritual only possible (so far) in virtual worlds. Breeze is a Futurist and game theorist who practices Poetic Game Interventions.
Jeremy Owen Turner lives in Vancouver where he is pursuing a Masters of Interactive Arts at Simon Fraser University. Turner is a performance artist, curator, theorist and music composer in virtual worlds. In 2006, he co-founded Second Front in Second Life and was also curator of the Second Live exhibition as part of the LIVE 2007 Biennial of Performance Art in Vancouver.
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June 12 - July 24, 2009
//Okanagan Hover
Doug Buis
Okanagan Hover is a large-scale landscape diorama depicting the area surrounding Kelowna at several different times past, present and future. The entire diorama moves relative to viewers, giving the impression that they are flying slowly over the landscape. Buis uses various model-making techniques, electronic and mechanical equipment, video and analog projections to portray a seamless landscape. This installation examines the subjective and imprecise nature of perception through hand-crafted virtual reality.
Doug Buis was born in London, Ont., and earned an MFA at York University in Toronto. He currently lives in Kamloops where he is a professor in the visual arts department at Thompson Rivers University. He has exhibited across Canada, the United States, Holland, Belgium and Korea. He has also curated several exhibitions in Canada, Europe and the United States.
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August 7 - September 11, 2009
//Around You & Alzheimer
Pascal Dufaux
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Dufaux uses the photographic image as an imprint, a two-dimensional flattened-out transfer of a three dimensional reading of spatial reality. His work reveals the visual substance of the human body - face and trunk -much like a cartographic transcription through his invention, a neon-lit motorized image-recording device, the PdVR_0. This motorized recording device captures the photographic image of a person on a 360-degree circumference in 36 digital clips, which are subsequently assembled in one panoptic view. The raw, almost clinical gaze of the panoptic image captures an image of the self that eludes the traditional frontal standpoint of the camera and eliminates classic criteria of what is considered photogenic.
Pascal Dufaux lives in Montreal where he earned a BFA from Concordia University. He has exhibited in Montréal, Switzerland, Finland and Mexico.
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October 20 - November 27, 2009
//The Intervening City
Jason Baerg
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Jason Baerg will work with the local Indigenous community to learn about the people and customs of the Syilx nation while participating in a visiting-artist-in-residency project as part of The Intervening City. He will develop an exhibition that takes inspiration from the medicine wheel - an inclusive ground for all people of the red, yellow, black and white nations.
As a visual artist, Baerg has presented at such institutions as the Walter Philips Gallery in Banff, the Canadian Indian Art Centre in Ottawa, and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Baerg has won numerous awards through the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. He is a founding member of the Metis Artist Collective, one of three official officers of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus for the Creative Rights Alliance, a board member for both the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and the Independent Media Arts Alliance.
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December 11 - 31, 2009
//Concept: Green
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This open concept format will lead to an exhibition of unique and fascinating work, showcasing the best of the Okanagan’s imagination. The annual members' show allows local artists to exhibit their work in a professional space, creating a dialogue about current artistic production in the community.
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