2008
//On Common Ground
Conference Program
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On Common Ground (PDF)
On Common Ground is the national media arts conference and festival of the Independent Media Arts Alliance, a non-profit organization that serves some 12,000 independent artists and cultural workers across Canada. An inclusive celebration supported by local Indigenous communities, On Common Ground welcomed hundreds of groundbreaking artists for screenings, exhibitions, performances, keynote speeches, panel discussions and an exciting array of other cross-cultural exchanges. The six-day festival – organized in partnership with the Ullus Collective, an aboriginal media arts group based in Penticton, B.C., the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition, and UBC Okanagan – was the largest media arts event ever held in the British Columbia Interior.
2008
//Edges of Diversity
Exhibition Catalogue
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Artists: Dana Claxton, Jayce Salloum, Henry Tsang
Essays by: Glen Lowry, Haema Sivanesan and Winston Xin
Price: $20
ISBN: 979-0-9809827-1-8
Edges of Diversity (PDF)
Edges of Diversity features contemporary artwork by Vancouver-based artists Dana Claxton, Jayce Salloum and Henry Tsang, all of whom have active national and international exhibition careers. Claxton and Tsang situate their work in a social and cultural nexus important to the Okanagan Valley with its long history of indigenous settlement. Claxton's efforts to bridge traditional and contemporary realities by considering evolving cultural practices is accessible to diverse audiences, while Tsang's work on land use and the preservation of indigenous language is deeply relevant to aboriginal and non-aboriginal audiences in a region undergoing fast-paced urban development. Salloum, who grew up in Kelowna, travels to Afghanistan for a collaboration with Afghani artist Khadim Ali. Their exploration of themes related to territory, migration and imperialism challenges notions of geographic and cultural difference in a global context.
2008
//Fault Lines
DVD catalogue
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Ullus Artists: Victoria Baptiste,Mariel Belanger, Tracey Bonneau (Kim Jack)
Alternator Artists: danielle helen ray dickson, Jorden & David Doody, Joanne Gervais, Cherie Valentina Stocken
Foreward by Jeanette Armstrong
Essay by Portia Priegert
Cover image: Tracey Bonneau (Kim Jack)
Price $10
ISBN: 978-0-9809827-0-1
Fault Lines (PDF)
A cross-cultural collaboration of experimental video bringing together emerging Indigenous artists from the Ullus Collective in Penticton and media artists from the Alternator. Participants explore the lines of rupture created by new technologies as they intersect with culture and social practice.
2005
//Temporal Transmissions
DVD catalogue
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Jayce Salloum, Dana Claxton, Randy Grskovic, Portia Priegert, Patrick Connelly, Karen Tam, Christian Nicolay
Essay by Portia Priegert
Coordinated by David Ross and Portia Priegert
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 0-9682197-8-0
Video artists explore various aspects of local history from different aesthethic and cultural perspectives to mark Kelowna's centennial in 2005. Includes 'terra incognita' by Jayce Salloum and Anwolek Regatta City by Dana Claxton.
2003
//A Shifting Terrain
Folio with six exhibition brochures
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A Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscapes
Essay by Portia Priegert
ISBN: 0-9682197-7-2
The artists who participated in the Alternator's 2003 exhibition program, A Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscapes, intercepted the environment at a time of transition, whether responding to specific sites in the Okanagan or reflecting on broader economic, political, cultural or technological relationships to the land. Artists include Scott August, Chris Gillespie, Clare Charnley, Penny McCarthy, Alexa Wright, Tim van Wijk, Sara Graham, Christine Shaw, Brian White, Keith Langergräber, Atefeh Shojaie, Eric Lamontagne and Luce Pelletier.
2000
//An Interrupted Journey
12 pages with 8 color images
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Murray Johnson (1937-1999)
Curated by Portia Priegert
Essay by Carolyn MacHardy
ISBN: 0-9682197-5-6
Murray Johnson's paintings, drawings and prints bear witness to his lifelong interest in the landforms of British Columbia. His response to the landscape was deeply felt and he strove to combine the intensity of this emotional encounter with a cooler and more appraising contemplation. Murray Johnson was a founding member of the Alternator Gallery.
2000
//Memory of the Earth: Bulbs
2 pages with four color images
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Mika Ebata
Edited by Portia Priegert
ISBN: 0-9682197-4-8
Japanese artist Mika Ebata exhibits carved wood sculptures that trace her conceptions about nature, particularly the contrasts between surface structure and hidden substrates.
1999
//Minori: Fulfillment in Life
10 pages with 8 colour images
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Miyuki Shinkai
Essay by Jennifer Macklem
Edited by Portia Priegert
Photographer: Kevin Dunn
ISBN: 0-9682197-3-X
Minori: Fulfillment in Life documents an exhibition by Miyuki Shinkai, a Japanese-born Vancouver-based glass artist, at the Alternator Gallery in 1999. Her installation, comprised of some 500 glass apples suspended above the heads of viewers as well as glass leaves scattered across the floor and eight translucent vessels, made oblique references to the past and the tangible presence of the fruits of labor.
1998
//Entomology
16 pages with four color images
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Shelley Ouellet
1998
Curated by Diane Dickert
Photography by Hutch Hutchinson
Design by Bruce Livingstone, Shelley Ouellet
ISBN: 0-9682197
Shelley Ouellet's installation, Entomology III, is the most recent version of a series that spans five years, six cities, seven galleries and hundreds of volunteers. Intrinsic to Ouellet's work is a philosophy of inclusiveness and non-hierarchical actions. Her artwork combines movement and stillness, heaviness and lightness, and individual and community involvement.
1998
//Interior Motives (part two)
12 pages with 10 B&W images
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Barbara Marchand, Mari Elin Chamney, Ruby Truly
Written by Alison Sivak and Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Designed by Amy Greenbaum
Edited by Jennifer Macklem, Allison Sivak, Anne-Marie Thorslund
ISBN: 0-9682197-1-3
Interior Motives (part two) attempts to locate the work of Ruby Truly, Barbara Marchand and Mari Elin Chamney in terms of geography, context and aesthetics. Through exploration of the histories of rural experience or materials found locally, these artists explore ideas of communal history, universal life force and the personal ritual made public.
1998
//Interior Motives (part one)
4 pages with 3 B&W images
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Essay by Allison Sivak
Introduction by Victoria Moulder
Price: $2.00
Interior Motives (part one) introduces the artists and conditions that effect cultural production specific to this region. It examines the site and connections in which five exhibitions from the Alternator's 1995-1996 programming converge to represent a city in transition.
//Brochures
Available as pdf
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The Blair Bush Project (2008)
The House That Herman Built (2008)
Bellwether/Turned Intos (2008)
For My Culture (2008)
Selling Venus (2007)
Reclaiming Narrative (2006)
Beauty and the Beast (2006)
Cyborg / Spill (2006)
De-formed (2006)
Glowing Madonna / Harp; Phase 1 (2006)
Immaterial (2005)
Big Wok (Big Trouble) Café (2005)
Portraits and Landscapes (2005)
Futuristic Regalia (2005)
Canadian Pastoral (2005)
Out of Bounds (2005)
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