Visitors in the Arts (VITA) is a co-operative project of the Art Gallery of Windsor, the University of Windsor's School of Visual Arts, Artcite Inc. (Windsor's Artist Run Centre for the Contemporary Arts), House of Toast Film & Video Collective, Common Ground, Windsor Feminist Theatre, and Windsor Printmaker's Forum. The VITA project brings practicing artist and curators into our community for the purpose of lectures, studio visits and critical discussions.

VITA is generously supported by The Canada Council Visual Arts Programme: Project Assistance to Visual Arts, Craft and Architecture Organizations.

 

2005-06:

image: Suzy Lake

Suzy Lake (Guelph, ON / hosted by the Windsor Feminist Theatre)
> Thurs OCT 20, 2005 @ 7:30pm, University of Windsor School of Visual Arts LeBel Building, Room 115 (located on the corner of Huron Church Rd. and College Ave.)

Internationally recognized as an innovator in photography, performance, conceptual and video art, Suzy Lake has explored issues of "body/identity" politic in her work since the 60s. Lake will present a lecture about her past work and her recent "Canadian Idols" series.

Lake earned her M.F.A. in multimedia from Concordia University in 1978, and has been a professor of Fine Art at the University of Guelph since 1988. Lake has been awarded numerous grants form the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and received the Visual Arts Award, Arts Foundation of Greater Toronto in 1997. In 1993, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa mounted a major career retrospective of her work that traveled to other galleries across Canada.

For more information, please contact the Windsor Feminist Theatre at (519) 524-8393 or windsorfeministtheatre@hotmail.com

 

image: George Hawken

George Hawken (Toronto, ON / hosted by Windsor Printmakers Forum)

> Thurs FEB 16, 2006 @ 7:00 pm, Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Dr. W. **please note change of start time and venue!**

+ FEB 17-March 21, 2006 @ Windsor Printmakers Forum: "The Four Elements Suite" exhibition
+ Sat FEB 18, 2006 @ 11:00am - 3:00pm "Non-Toxic Printing" Workshop/Demo with George Hawken @ Windsor Printmakers Forum: limited enrollment; please contact WPF for more info. & registration


George Hawken is a draughtsman and a printmaker specializing in intaglio techniques. His work typically addresses issues of the urban body, and often finds it's inspiration in literary themes and references which are pursued in series and folios. He has exhibited widely since 1973 and is represented in many public, corporate and private collections, both in this country and internationally. Carlton University in Ottawa has undertaken a comprehensive archive of his Intaglio prints. His work was recently the focus of a solo exhibition at Carleton University Art Gallery, entitled "Urban Skins: The Prints of George Hawken" curated by Jenny McMaster. Hawken is currently engaged in a collaborative printmaking project with Rudolf Bikkers and Noaka Matsubara.

George Hawken will be featured in a solo exhibition "The Four Elements Suite" at the Windsor Printmakers Forum, 420 Devonshire Rd. (side entrance), February 17­March 31, 2006 and he will be conducting a workshop on non-toxic printing on Saturday, February 18, 11 am - 3 pm. Please contact the Windsor Printmakers Forum for information and registration at (519) 253-9493.

 

image: Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann (Montreal, QC / hosted by the University of Windsor School of Visual Arts and the Art Gallery of Windsor )
> Wed April 5 @ 7 pm at the Art Gallery of Windsor

Carolee Schneemann is a pioneering feminist and multidisciplinary artist who challenges notions of traditional art-making with her discourses on the body, sexuality, and gender. Themes in her work include "research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body."

Schneemann's work has been shown at numerous galleries internationally, including: the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and most recently in a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York entitled Up To And Including Her Limits. Schneemann has screened her works at film and video retrospectives at National Film Theatre, London; San Francisco Cinematheque and Anthology Film Archives, NYC.

2004:

The 2004 VITA was  as a special collaborative effort to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Artcite/ House of Toast's annual Media City International Festival of Experimental Film and Video. The participating organizations in the VITA series used the opportunity to invite international film and video artists to attend during the festival and present lectures, workshops or studio visits in addition to screenings of their most recent work. Participants in the 2004 VITA series were:

Blackhole_factory (Braunschweig DE/ hosted by the University of Windsor School of Visual Arts)
> Thursday, February 5, 2004 @ 7:30 pm; lecture at the University of Windsor School of Visual Arts (LeBel Bldg.), Room 115
> Thursday, February 12, 9 pm at the Capitol Theatre & Arts Centre; Performance at Media City International Program 4

Blackhole-factory (Martin Stawig and Elke Untermöhlen, www.blackhole-factory.de) creates audiovisual installations, sound objects, interactive environments, and performances. Their work  has been shown internationally in the USA, Peru, Brazil, Cuba, and Europe. In Windsor, Blackhole-factory will create an interactive performance piece for Media City.

Martin Slawig is a percussionist trained in West Africa, Cuba, and at the International School of Percussion, Munich. He works as an electronic artist using sampler, custom-built instruments, and computer programming for real-time processing. Elke Untermöhlen is a performance artists and singer. She is co-founder of the LOT-Theatre in Braunschweig, Germany, and was a member of LA OTRA ORILLA Theatre, Lima, Peru and Braunschweig, from 1984-90.

 

Abigail Child (USA/ hosted by Windsor Feminist Theatre)
> Thursday, February 12, 2004 @ 6:30 pm at the Capitol Theatre & Arts Centre, 121 University Ave. W.
Film screening of four selections from the film series "Is This What You Were Born For?" (1981-87), followed by an audience discussion.

> Saturday, February 14, 2004 @ 2pm at the Marathon Restaurant, 60 University Ave. W.
Abigail Child presents selections of her poems as part of the Media City symposium and book fair. Filmmaker Abigail Child works primarily with found footage, extending the formal and critical montage strategies of the Soviet avant-garde into topical analyses of sexuality, labour, and the psychology of the cinema. Since 1977, she has made more than 25 films and videos that have screened at venues including the New York Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Media City 7 and 8. Her films are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Oberhausen Archive in Germany. Child lives in New York and is Chair f the Film Area at the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is also an accomplished poet with several published volumes, including "Mob" and "Scatter Matrix".

Scott Stark, (San Francisco, USA/ hosted by Artcite)
> Thursday, February 12, 2004 @ 9:30 pm at the Capitol Theatre & Arts Centre, 121 University Ave. W.
Suite for VCRs (2003), Live three-channel video performance, followed by an audience discussion

>The films and recent video works of Scott Stark incorporate complex, quasi-mathematical editing procedures that exploit the dissonance between still and moving images. Stark has made more than 60 films and videos since 1980, including "I'll Walk With God" (1994) and Angel Beach" (2001). His videos have been screened at venues such as the Rotterdam and New York International Film Festivals and Media City 8. He has had solo retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley). Stark has also served on the board of the San Francisco Cinematheque and co-founded Cinematograph, its journal of film and media art.

Guy Sherwin (England/ hosted by Common Ground)
> Friday, February 13, 2004 @ 8:00 pm at the Capitol Theatre & Arts Centre, 121 University Ave. W.
Animal Studies (1998-2004) and the live triple-projection Train Films (1977-2004), followed by an audience discussion.

>Guy Sherwin was a central protagonist of the venerable London Filmmaker's Co-op in the 1970s. His films are conceived in serial forms, often presented as live multiple projections, and are characterized by an enduring concern with light and time as fundamentals of cinema. Sherwin's films have been extensively exhibited in his native England and internationally. His work was included in the historically significant Film as Film series at the Hayward Gallery in 1980. He has had solo retrospectives at the San Francisco Cinematheque, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Image Forum (Tokyo), Anthology Film Archives (New York), and LUX (London). Sherwin teaches at Middlesex University and the University of Wolverhampton.

Shiho Kano (Japan/ hosted by House of Toast)
> Lily in the Glass: Friday, February 13, 2004 @ 9:30 pm at the Capitol Theatre & Arts Centre, 121 University Ave. W.

> Saturday February 14, 2004 @ 2:00pm at the Marathon Restaurant, 60 University Ave. W.
Shiho Kano discusses current conditions and developments in Japanese avant-garde cinema as part of the Media City symposium and book fair.
Japanese filmmaker Shiho Kano creates spare and elegant studies of light and form as a way of thinking about time. She conveys subtle narrative impressions with minimal visual information. Her works, such as Incense (2002) and Rocking Chair (2000), have screened at numerous international festivals including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Image Forum (Tokyo), Images (Toronto), Onion City (Chicago), Ann Arbor, and Viper (Basel). She has won several awards, including an Honourable Mention, a Grand Prize, and Second Prize at Media City 6, 7, and 9.

Julie Voyce (Canada/ hosted by Windsor Printmakers Forum)
> Thursday, March 25, 2004 @ 7:00 pm at the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Dr. W.

> Exhibition Opening: Friday, March 26 @ 7 pm
Silkscreen prints by Julie Voyce. The artist will be present.

>How to Make Two Colours Pretend to be EightWorkshop: Saturday, March 27 @ 11am - 5pm
Fees: $10 Students(with valid card); $25 WPF members; $35 non-members (limited registration)

Both events: Windsor Printmakers' Forum (325 Devonshire Road)

> As a printmaker, Julie Voyce investigates the world around her. Using screenprinting as her preferred medium, she looks at her life and objects that she comes across as part of a game she calls "colour separation by the brain." Her traditional approach to contemporary subject matter, which begins with a "decoding" of the object into two colours, results in prints that have a simple, handmade appearance. Julie Voyce studied at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts and the Ontario College of Art. She has exhibited in Canada since 1980.

 

2002-03:

Nobuo Kabota (hosted by the University of Windsor)
> Thurs OCT 10, 2002 @ 7:30pm @ Lebel (Faculty of Visual Arts)
Nobuo Kubota explores the boundaries of the human voice and its relationship to facial mime. Although his work is not based in language, it uses the sonic and phonetic elements of speech in its expression and attempts to freely explore the apparatus of the vocal mechanism to present a diverse form of communication. Kubota's vocal work is fore-grounded in sound poetry and free jazz improvisation through his experience as an original member of the Artists' Jazz Band, the dynamic improvising orchestra, the CCMC and his exposure to the work of the Four Horsemen. He lived and studied in Kyoto, Japan where one of the disciplines that influenced his sound work was the chanting of Buddhist sutras. Currently, his work has been focused on visual sound poetry which explores the strategy of ìintermediaî and serves as an extension to his vocal work. He has performed as a solo vocalist in Europe's most prestigious sound poetry festivals, including Yesbe Poetry Festival (University of Bologna, Italy), Bobeobi Festival of Sound Poetry,(Berlin, Germany), Polysonneries (Lyon, France), Words & Voices Festival (Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany). and Proposta, (Barcelona, Spain).

To hear a sample of Kabota's work, click here

 

Stephen Andrews (Toronto, hosted by Windsor Printmakers Forum)
> Thurs NOV 07, 2002 @ 7:30pm @ The Art Gallery of Windsor: lecture
+ Fri NOV 08, 2002 @ 7:30pm @ Windsor Printmakers Forum: opening reception for exhibition of "Works on Paper"
+ Sat NOV 09, 2002 @ 11:00am - 3:00pm Workshop/Demo @ Windsor Printmakers Forum: $40 fee, limited enrollment
Stephen Andrews was born in Sarnia, ON in 1956 and moved to Toronto in the 70's to study photography at Ryerson Polytechnic College. By the mid-1980's, he had turned to drawing, and, since then, has continued to reference photography. Andrews has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad, and his work has been featured in many publications.

Rescheduled! This visit was held over from 2001 due to 9-11 complications!
David Toop (UK / hosted by Artcite Inc)
> Thurs NOV 14, 2002 @ 7:30pm @ The Art Gallery of Windsor: lecture
+ Fri NOV 15, 2002 @ 7:30pm @ Artseen 10 (location TBA): live performance!
A multi media artist, independent curator, and writer based in London, England, who has worked extensively in performance, installation, and audio art. Recent activities include curating Sonic Boom, an exhibition of audio art in London, and Dreaming of Inscription on Skin, a sound Installation, performance, and lecture in Japan.

...OTHER DATES ON CANADIAN SCHEDULE:
Nov.13 > InterAccess, Toronto > lecture by David Toop & Sarah Peebles
Nov.16 > The Annex Theatre, Toronto > performance with Sarah Peebles
Nov.19-20 > S.A.T., Montreal > 'micro-residency'
Nov.21 > S.A.T., Montreal > performance with Sarah Peebles

image: Sally McKay

Sally McKay (Toronto / hosted by Artcite Inc)
> Thurs JAN 16, 2003 @ ARTCITE INC
In 1997 Sally McKay co-founded Lola Magazine in collaboration with Catherine Osborne and John Massier. She continues to work as art director and co-owner of the magazine, and is also a practicing artist. She has shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Postmasters Gallery in New York, Wexner Centre in Ohio, Dunlop in Regina, and at the Art Gallery of Windsor. She frequently collaborates with artist Ben Smith Lea. Last year Sally and Ben were part of the Lefty Show at A Space gallery. Also in 2001, Sally showed a short animated film at the Images Festival, performed/read at The Box, and participated in Orange Marble, a group show in Taipei. She co-edited the YYZ Publication "Money, Value, Art: State Funding, Free Markets, Big Pictures" with Andrew J. Paterson. Sally lives, works and rides her bike in Toronto.

Matt McCormick (Portland, OR / hosted by House of Toast)
> Tues Feb 11, 2003, venue: Art Gallery of Windsor
+ a mini-retrospective film screening will take place in conjuction with the Media City 09 Festival
Matt McCormick is a Portland OR based filmmaker who has been making experimental short films and videos for almost ten years. Matt's films combine found and original sounds and images to fashion abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture, and while they differ greatly in form and structure, they maintain a consistent sense of place and environment. Matt's films have received high praise and several awards from various film festivals, including "best-of" awards at festivals such as The San Francisco International, The New York Underground, Media City, Ann Arbor and several others. His work has also screened at such venues as the Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Lincoln Center and numerous other locations. In addition to making and screening his own films, Matt operates an independent screening and distribution project known as Peripheral Produce, which presents experimental film screening events, and distributes over forty artist's work on video tape. He is also the founder and director of the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, an annual exposition of film and video.

Robert Sikoryak (NYC, hosted by Common Ground)
> Thurs Mar 06, 2003, lecture @ Artcite Inc
Avant-cartoonist R.Sikoryak has been producing some of the world's most literate and challenging cartoons since the mid-eighties. Along with co-editors Art Spiegelman and Francois Mouly he was an associate editor of the enormously influential graphics journal RAW, and also with Spiegelman he co-edited The Narrative Corpse. Fantagraphics Books has released his only separate book publication, The Seduction of Mike (a collaboration with performance artist Michael Smith and Video artist Joe Sikoryak.) He has contributed to many presses and publications, among them: Dark Horse, The New Yorker, Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics Books, L'Association, Penguin books, Adbusters, Esquire, L.A. Weekly, The Village Voice, Wired, World War Three Illustrated, and many many others. Concurrent with his work in print, he has also delivered many lectures and slideshows and shown work in a variety of galleries and exhibition spaces, among them: Dixon Place, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Bard College, Cooper Union, Franklin Furnace, Performance space 122, CBGB's, etc.

Myfanwy MacLeod (Vancouver, hosted by the AGW)
> Thurs Mar 20, 2003, lecturew @ The Art Gallery of Windsor
Originally from London, Ontario, the work of Vancouver-based Myfanwy MacLeod is characterized by a wry sense of humour with references to pop culture. Recent exhibitions, including Miss Moonshine and The Tiny Kingdom, recall the 'hillbilly' characterization of rural North America, as portrayed in the films, television, and cartoons of an urbanised society.

 

 

Pauline Oliveros (NYC, hosted by The Windsor Feminist Theatre)
> Mon Apr 07, 2003: lecture & workshop
1:00pm- lecture: "The Importance of Sound", Ambassador Auditorium, University of Windsor Campus, CAW centre. Round table discussion to follow.
7:30pm- workshop: "Deep Listening" with Pauline Oliveros, Ambassador Auditorium, University of Windsor campus, CAW centre. Suggested donation
+ Tue Apr 08, 2003: Pauline will be working with small groups of students from the University on their projects; this is an amazing opportunity for students to engage with Pauline in an intimate setting and benefit from her experience & expertise.

Pauline Oliveros, composer, performer and humanitarian, is an important pioneer in American music. She is probably America's best known woman composer and her work continues to influence artists worldwide. Acclaimed internationally, Pauline has explored sound for four decades -- forging new ground for herself and others. Through improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation, she has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly affects those who experience it, and eludes many who try to write about it.

Oliveros has been vocal about representing the needs of individual artists, about the need for diversity and experimentation in the arts, and about promoting cooperation and good will among people. Her philosophy is a radically egalitarian approach to sound and the soundscapes produced by various environments.

This event has been made possible with the support of VITA, and the University of Windsor's Departments of Communications, English and the Faculty of Arts and Science. Pauline will also be participating in a round table discussion with members of the university faculty and CBC's Victoria Fenner. All events are free to the public.

 

 

image: Tom Dean

2001-02:
Adreana Arenas Ilian (Colombia/New York / hosted by The House of Toast)
Originally from Columbia, and now a resident of New York, acclaimed multi media artist Adriana Arenas Llian uses video, photography, and karaoke machines to cast herself as the ìperformerî of Latin American pop tunes, extracting from the saccharine sweet milieu of epic schmaltz an incisive critique of the popular construction of contemporary femininity.

Tony Calzetta (Toronto / hosted by Windsor Printmakers Forum)
> Windsor born artist based in Toronto. He has exhibited widely and his work can be found in many corporate, public, and private collections throughout North America and Europe.

Catherine Greenblatt (San Francisco / hosted by the School of Visual Arts, U of W)
> a writer in visual cultural theory, and has served as co-editor of Parallax 5, a special issue on visual culture of the workplace. She was a visiting professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco/Stanford, and is currently the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute.

David Hickey (USA / hosted by The Art Gallery of Windsor)
> a fiction writer, cultural critic, curator and professor of art theory and criticism at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Considered ìthe philosopher king of American art criticismî, his widely read essays on art have been collected in The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty and Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy. Recent curatorial projects include Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, at the 4th Site Santa Fe Biennial, and Ultalounge: The Return of Social Space with Cocktails.

Annie Sprinkle (San Francisco / hosted by Windsor Feminist Theatre)
> an artist and porn star. In addition to her numerous film and print appearances, Sprinkle is an accomplished filmmaker, visual artist, activist, performance artist, and educator. She has made over 200 videos and written several books, her most recent being Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasure, Profits, and Politics of Sexual Performance.

Tom Dean (Toronto / hosted by Common Ground)
> an artist that as been associated with the most memorable moments of the alternative art scenes in Canada. His career began in Montreal I the early 1970s he emerged as a strong presence in the Toronto art community. In addition to making objects and painting, he has worked on the fringe of visual culture, producing videotapes, books, performances, and events. His work has been widely exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He represented Canada at the 1999 Venice Biennale.

 

image: Eija-Liisa Ahtila

2000-01:
Sigi Torinus (San Francisco / hosted by the School of Visual Arts, U of W)

Aaron Wilson (Cedar Falls, Iowa / hosted by the Windsor Printmaker's Forum)
> received a BFA from Wright State University and a MFA from Ohio University. Wilson's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including: Positive Negative 13, Huntington Art Gallery, Austin; Artlink, 18th National Print Exhibition, Fort Wayne; and The 3rd Kochi Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan. Wilson is currently an Assistant Professor in the art department at the University of Northern Iowa.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Helsinki, Finland / hosted by Artcite Inc. and H.O.T.)

1999-00:
Marna Bunnell (Edmonton / hosted by the Windsor Printmaker's Forum, Nov 11/99)
Edmonton printmaker Marna Bunnell explores the medium of the public poster. Combining a ëfine artí printmaking tradition with agit-prop to create a convergence of the personal and the political. In addition to her extensive international exhibition activities, Bunnel has participated in numerous international projects and symposia, including the Canada Councilís Canada/Mexico Artist Residency Program in 1999.

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (Baltimore / hosted by Common Ground, presented at Artcite Inc., Nov 25/99)
'Guerilla Playfare', 'Psychopathfinding', 'So-Called Whatevers'. Just some of the activities perpetrated by eENTATIVELY, a convenience, a Toronto/Baltimore-based artist and iconoclast. ' Resistant to previously existing categories and committed to self-contextualization', tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE rejects the designation of 'performance-artist' preferring to describe himself as "criminally insane". His public works date from the 70s and include art actions in a photo-booth during rush-hour, and numerous video and film productions which undermine traditional broadcast vernacular tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCEís visit corresponds with Common Grounds Festival of Plagiarism and Neoist Performance Festival Nov 26&27.

Georgeann Dean (San Francisco / hosted by the School of Visual Arts, U of W, Jan 13/99)
Although Deen's quast-expressionist figurative work recall a formal similarity to decorative art and popular comics, they are in fact, intensely emotional and deeply personal, drawing both from her memories of her early upbringing in an impoverished Texas suburb and the outrageous cultural scene and flamboyant surroundings of present day L.A, Deenís work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Venice, Tokyo, Paris, Toronto and Chicago, as well as being published in Rolling Stone, Snake Eyes, Cannibal Romance, AAW,Wired, the FACE and the New York Times Magazine.

Martin Arnold (Vienna / hosted by Artcite Inc. and H.O.T., Feb 10/00)
Vienna artist Martin Arnold studied psychology and art history before dedicating himself to independent filmmaking in 1988. In his experimental 16mm shorts, Arnold deconstructs conventional film codes of innocuous 1930s Hollywood teenager films to expose previously hidden messages of sex and violence Arnoldís award-winning shorts have been screened at numerous prestigious film festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Cannes, the S.F. Cinematheque, Filmforum in L.A. and the International Short Film Festival in Bonn. His most recent work,îAlone Life Wastes Andy Hardyî was installed in April 1999 at Western

John Duncan (Udine, Italy / hosted by Artcite Inc., March 30­April 1/00).
Now based in Udine, Italy, John Duncan (b. Wichita, Kansas) in an internationally known multi-media and audio artist. His recent activities include installation (ìThe Secret Filmî, ìThe Dream Roomî, ìBlind Dateî); video (ìTVC1î, in which Duncan creates pirate TV by using NHK-1, the signal of national Japanese TV);and performance(ìKickî, performed at the Museum of Pathological Disease in Vienna in 1996, and ìTap Internalî performed in 1999 in Tokyo at ì20,000 Voltsî, an international performance art festival) and a Cassette/Book for Out of Actions Between Performance and the Object, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles(concurrent exhibitions of ìOut of Actionsî were mounted in 1999 in Vienna and Barcelona).

 

1998-99:
Greg Staats (Toronto) (hosted by Artcite Inc., October 8/98)
Toronto artist Greg Stats was born Mohawk on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. While attending the photography program at Sheridan College, Staats began a photographic career based on the visual translation of the philosophy and values of Aboriginal peoples, through collective and personal images. His photographs tend to overlap between documentary and abstraction. Staats has been a resident at the Banff Centre for the Atrs, has exhibited and lectured across Canada and recently participated in the ìSprawlî project at Mercer Union in Toronto. His most recent series, entitled ìanimoseî, is featured in a solo exhibition at Artcite Inc.

 

1997-98:
Martine Neddam (hosted by the School of Visual Arts, U of W)

Gustav Deutsch (hosted by Artcite Inc. and H.O.T.)
The films of Vienna-based Gustav Deutch have been featured at festivals throughout Europe and North America. This fall Deutsch will be touring North America to present and speak about his recent, interactive film works. Inspired by the odd and fascinating proto-cinematic gizmos of the nineteenth century, Deutsch has retrofitted several dozen hand-held, battery-operated machines he refers to collectively as ìTaschenkinoî(Pocket Cinema). Each of these units contains a loop of super8 footage culled from Deutschís collection of home movies, found films and celluloid detritus. These images become visible when the viewfinders are peered through into white light projectors on screen:audience members exchange units with one another upon instructions from Deutsch. Deutsch will also deliver a lecture on the origins and early history of the moving image. Gustav Deutsch appears courtesy of the Austrian Cultural Institut (NYC), and the Austrian Embassy.

Robin Rimbaud (SCANNER) Interactive Website
> is a multi-media artist from London, England whose works underscore the dictum that ìpower is control of informationî. Best known for his audio-surveillance and ambient musical works, in which he uses an inexpensive hand held scanner to intercept and ìcaptureî samples of private cellular telephone conversations, Rimbaud/Scanner has been refered to as ìflaneur electroniqueî. Since 1992, Rimbaud has released six full-length albums and countless 12 inch singles and compilation tracks, besides collaborating with artists as diverse as Brian Ferry and Bill Laswell and cultural theorist Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. More recently, Rimbaud presented a live surveillance/performance on the Brooklyn Bridge and lectured at Documenta X in Kassel. For his Windsor visit,Rimbaud will present excerpt from his ambient electronica-infused recordings as well as slides and videotapes of his performance based installation pieces.

 

1996-97:
James D. Campbell
> a distinguished art writer and curator, living I Montreal, who is the author of over 50 books on Canadian and international art.

Oscar Gillespie
> a printmaker whose intaglios and engravings have been exhibited internationally. He is the head of the printmaking department at the Bradley University in Peor

Robert Bean
> a Halifax artist/photographer who teaches photography at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Born in McComb, MS in 1972, and lived there until enrolling at MS State University in 1990. He received his BFA from Mississippi State, and his MFA from Louisiana State University in 2001. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Robert paints portraits, but he also does still life, as well as his main interest, figurative paintings that are narrative or symbolic in nature. He discussed his work in a lecture entitled Walking in the Constructed Landscape.

David Hlynsky
> a Toronto artist who works in various media, often on collaborative projects. He is a photographer, writer, editor and publisher and has developed holography as a fine art.

Mark Hosler (NEGATIVLAND)
> a Seattle based musician and member of Negativland whose albums form a collage of found noises that critique the popular cultural industry. They are most notorious for the 1991 court case that pitted them against U2, Island records and Warner/Chappel Music publishers; the case became a benchmark in the debate over artistic censorship and ownership.

Jim Shaw
> a Los Angeles based multimedia artist who grounds his work in popular culture. Shaw works in video and painting and is interested in the comic book genre. He has recently published a book of drawings and fiction on dreams.

David Tomas
> a Montreal-based artist, writer and anthropologist. In his photography/performance based installations and video he explores the nature of images and imaging systems. He is particularly interested in the impact of technology on the human body.

 

1995-96:
Jerry Pethick
Vancouver based artist. Does mixed media sculptural Instillation.

Lucy Hogg
Vancouver painter.

Kati Campbell
Vancouver artist Kati Campbell is well known for rigorous photo-conceptural works. Her solo show,Battle of the Titans, at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1992 included a monumental video/electronical installation which addressed the nature of aggression and the dynamics of socialization. Most recently an exhibition for her work at YYZ featured installations with emotionally warmer, more ëhandmadeí production values. Campbell calls these bricolage sculptures of objects from daily life ëfull-blown psychodramasí.



Stan Douglas
> born in 1960 in Vancouver where he still lives. He attended the Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, 1982. He has exhibited widely in Canada, the USA, Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, and South Africa. In 1994 the Centre Georges Pompidou mounted a major survey of his work which then travelled to Madrid, Zurich and Rotterdam.

Charlotte Townsend-Gault

Bernard Gamoy

Guy Maddin

Walter Jule

1994-95:
Persimmon Blackbridge

Sara Diamond
> a video artist, television producer/director, curator, critic and teacher. Currently, she is the artistic Director of the Media and Visual Arts Department at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her video and television productions have been shown around the world. In 1992, Sara was honored by a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada and was Canadaís representative in the Biennial in Sydney, Australia. Her work has been collected by many institutions including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada and New Yorkís Museum of Modern Art.

Aganetha Dyck
> a Winnipeg mixed media artist who works with a variety of processes from beekeeping to pickling. With her artistic alchemy she transforms everyday domestic objects into works that are magical and macabre. Her use of the unconventional and the inappropriate challenge our notion of art and everyday activities and how they intersect.

Renee Van Helm
Renee lives and works in Vancouver. Her work looks at the history and practice of painting as a cultural construction based on received codes. She brings together the ìdisregardedî with the ìcovetedî, the ìcommonî with the ìhighly valuedî and the images with their framing structure. This causes distinctions to be collapsed and ìfixed readingsî to be critically examined. Her work has led her to consider certain subjects relevant to painting including the genres of still life, landscape and domestic spaces.

Geoffrey James

Johanne Lamoureux
> an independent curator, critic, writer and Assistant Professor in the Art History Department of the Universite de Montreal. She has written numerous catalogues, (the most recent one on Mark Lewis projects) and several articles (in Parachute, Trois, Artsmagazine, Artpress, October, Protee), dealing with issues of site specificity and with the contemporary rhetoric of exhibitions and other displays. Her doctoral thesis discussed how the concepts of picture and ruin were articulated in the multifold practices of Hubert Robert (1733-1808). She also curated an exhibition on visual arts and the linguistic situation in Quebec for the Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia: 1995.

Ken Lum

William Ritchie

 

1993-94:
Micah Lexier

Sharon Alward

Marcella Bienvenue

Lynne Fernie

Martha Townsend

 

1992-93:
Edward Poitras
Edward Poitras lives in Regina. His work deals with issues of culture and history from a First Nations perspective. Recent exhibitions include ìRethinking Historyî, and ìVita Brevis Acts of Worshipî a collaborative installation.

Nancy Edell
Nancy Edell lives in Halifax and Calledonia, Nova Scotia,where she has been painting, rug hooking and printmaking on the theme ART NUNS and teaching part-time at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Richard Storms
Verbal and non-verbal elements are employed in these recent works reflecting observations of my locale and cultural milieu. These elements are systematically repeated creating structures that demonstrate confident and vulnerable aspects in our city and culture. The use of repetition empowers otherwise neutral forms of words and invests in them a new potential for interpretation.î Richard Storm is a painter who lives in Toronto.

Michel Goulet
Michel Goulet is a sculptor from Montreal. He has shown extensively nationally and internationally.

Carl Beam
Carl Beam lives in Peterborough, Ontario. His work is print and photography based, dealing with persona; and cultural histories. The Columbus Boat, his most recent solo exhibition was recently at the Power Plant in Toronto.

Richard Sewell
Richard Sewell is a printmaker and installation artist from Toronto. He teaches at Sheridan College and is a founding member of Open Space print studio in that city. His recent work has included sound elements, as well as performance, into his print-based(ìprintstallationî) work.

Wilma Needham
Wilma Needham lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She works in various print media, installation, and performance art. She teaches art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Jin-Me Yoon
ìBorn in Seoul, Korea in 1960, I emigrated to Vancouver in 1968. What was assumed to be ënaturalí shifted to the ëculturalí in the course of flight. Preoccupations with memory, subjectivity, location/displacement and continual process of (re)inventing identity forms the basis of my work. I view one aspect of my art practice as a form of intervention into public discourses and systems of knowledge.î Jin-me Yoonís practice is primarily photo-based. She teaches at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

Jamelie Hassan
Jamelie Hassan lives in Lonon, Ont., where she is a working artist as well as a writer and free lance curator. Her work addresses issues of gender and cultural diferene. Recent exhibitions include Traveling Theory, In Control, and Inscription, and she has an upcoming show at the Thames Art Gallery in Chattam.

Wanda Ellerbeck
Wanda Ellerbeck is a sculptor who lives in Canmore, Alberta. Her most recent solo exhibition was at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 1991. She has taught Art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the University of Calgary, and the Alberta College of Art, among others.

1991-92:
Jane Buyers
> an artist from Toronto whose work is primarily sculptural, incorporating text, drawing, photography and objects. She considers the structure and the meaning of her work to be open-ended, addressing social and personal histories, with an emphasis on the position of women in our culture.

Greg Curnoe
> an artist from London, Ontario. He works from the personal experience, usually in painting and drawing. A long-time supporter of the artist-run centre movement, Curnoe has consistently advocated the importance of the regions as opposed to a so-called nationalícen

John Greer
> a sculptor who lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Presently teaching sculpture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, he has just returned from a sabbatical in Italy where he worked extensively in the marble quarries around Carrera. Much of John Greers recent work is executed in carved marble and cast bronze and addresses issues of the individualís gravity-of what centers us in a world that is largely chaotic.

Jeff Spalding
> a landscape painter and an art historian. He is presently a curator at the gallery of the University of Lethbridge, and also teaches painting there.

Lyndal Osborne
> a print artist interested in discovering relationships between the organic forms discovered in nature in the context of a somewhat more interior world. She also works with the natural materials themselves, creating sculptural forms which reveal to her the energy and mysteries of these sources.

Harold Klunder
> a painter and printmaker who lives in Flesherton, Ontario. His paintings and prints deal with the metamorphic image of the human likeness in a lattice of thick brush stroke and vibant graphic mark making. He is represented by the Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, and has recently had a solo exhibit at 49th Parallel, N.Y.C., and is represented in the Open Studio 20th Anniversary Exhibit touring to Rome in 1992. He has taught at Queenís University, Guelph University, Central Technical School, and The New School, Toronto.

Michele Theriault
> a curator of contemporary Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She has curated Irene F. Whittomeís Musee des Traces and is presently preparing an exhibition with Barbara Steinman. Michele Theriault is from Montreal and considers that Quebec and Canada are culturally separate, this ìlived cultural differenceî informs her work and poses the question of how this difference manifests itself in an exhibition program.

Nicole Jolicoeur
Over the last decade her work has developed as an ongoing process investigating the visual construction of hysteria, the mythic disease, by 19th century French neurologist J.M. Charcot. In her practice she has constantly referred, in one way or another, to Charcotís visual and textual production; as well she has explored his source material and even his family life. Positioning herself as the scientist/explorer she has carried out her work of dislocation and recontextualization with clarity and humour.

Ian Wallace
> an artist from British Columbia who has shown extensively, both nationally and internationally. Primarily concerned with photographic processes, and presently teaching at the Emily Carr School of Art and Design, Ian Wallace will be discussing his recent work.

1990-91:
Robert Fones
A Toronto Artist who works ina variety of media including photography, sculpture, drawing and woodblock prints. His work links familiar specific objects and signs with less visible processes in an attempt to highlight the factors affecting individual and cultural behaviour and beliefs.

Alan Dunning
A Calgary artist who has created installation art since 1973. Recent works have involved large quantities of printed information applied in pattern across the exhibition space. The works question the power that comes from politically authoritative, exploitive speech, and promote by inference a positive, cooperative attitude and action.

Jack Butler
Kenneth John (Jack) Butler is an interdisciplinary performance artist whose projects include collabaration with writers, audio artists, choreographers and actors. His work attempts to build bridges between the vocabularies of visual art and the biological and social sciences. He has been involved in several collaborative efforts with Inuit and Native Indian artists and he has completed four projects of embryological research.

Richard Purdy
A Montreal artist who creates fictive realities, Purdyís projects reverse the pattern of acculturation, and attempt to eliminate North American attitudes and values. Assuming the methodology and language of the archaeologist and anthropologist, and creating these fictive realities, he exposes the assumptions underlying contemporary North American culture.

Genevieve Cadieux
Montreal artist Genevieve Cadieux works with a variety of media, often including photography, or mirror reflections, to create staged images which direct our vision and thoughts to a consideration of the literal and the implied. By shifting focus and emphasis, she manipulates our perception and point of view, creating questions of identity for us to ponder.

Barbara Steinman
Uses video and projection to create installations concerned with a double version of the real: the authorized version and the disavowed. By contrasting video real time images of the commonplace with other silent images of memory or fantasy, she addresses the gap betweem internal experience and acculturated memory. Her art practice has now evolved to include in situ works, media installations, as well as large and small format photography. Her work has been shown in numerous museums, national and international biennials, and special-event exhibitions. In 2002, she received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Michael Fernandes
Halifax artist Michael Fernandes is an installation artist whose work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including most recently Walls, a solo exhibit at the Power Plant at Harborfront in Toronto.

Susan Scott
A Montreal painter who creates narrative works which use text and figurative images to cinematically portray a situation or discuss the character of human relationships.

Barbara Fischer
A curator, writer and lecturer who has worked with Open Space Gallery, the Walter Phillips Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and most recently the Power Plant. She is especially concerned with art work which discusses contemporary societal issues and she has provided access to an international perspective in the discussion of the work of Canadian artists.

Marion Penner Bancroft
A Vancouver artist who often combines photography and text to render human experience, particularly from a womanís point of view. She is interested in the contradictions which often occur in the reading of her work from the texts of two different traditions: photography and art.

 

1989-90:
Sharron Kivland
Internationally known British photographer.

Tomiyo Sasaki
Primarily known for her video work, New York resident Tomiyo Sasaki has exhibited widely internationally and has recently completed a five-month research trip to China.

Eric Cameron
Sculptor Eric Cameron is head of the Department of Fine Art, University of Calgary. His work is included in the Eighty/Twenty exhibition currently traveling nationally.

Adalsteinn Ingolfson
From Iceland, art historian and critic Ingolfsson will discuss contemporary European and Icelandic art.

Alan Belcher
Toronto artist Alan Belcher's photo-based works have been exhibited nationally, most recently at Mercer Union, Toronto.

Mary Scott
Calgary artist Mary Scott teaches at the Albert College of Art and has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions including most recently a solo exhibit organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, which was on view at the Art Gallery of Windsor in the summer of1989.

Vera Frenkel
Toronto based Vera Frenkel is an independent video producer and multidisciplinary artist whose work has been shown and collected nationally and internationally.

Greg Murdock
Vancouver artist Greg Murdockís most recent relief structures and three dimensional panel works were on view at the Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, in April of 1989 and at the Equinox Gallery, Fall 1989.

1988-89:
Shirley Yanover

Vincent Trasov

Bruce Grenville

Ron Shuebrook

Irene Whittome

Tanya Mars

Ian Wallace

Jana Sterbak

Ian Carr-Harris
Ian Carr-Harris is a Toronto artist with an extensive exhibition history in Canada and Europe. His work is included in the collections of the National Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario among others. He is chair of the sculpture/installation program and an instructor in contemporary art theory at the Ontario College of Art, and has for many years contributed articles and reviews on Canadian art to Parachute, Vanguard and C Magazine.

Kim Adams

1987-88:
Robert Bowers
At once solemn and witty, the wood sculpture of Toronto artist Robert Bowers ìhas always dealt with his fascination with the instability of our perceptions of the familiar, with how we can suddenly see the most ordinary (or abstract) element in our surroundings as something completely other or magicalî. Karen Wilkin, Canadian Art.

Rene Blouin
Curator of Contemporary Art, Musee díart Contemporian, 1983-84, co-curator of the Aurora Borealis exhibition in Montreal, 1985, Blouin is currently director of Galerie Rene Blouin in Montreal; he is also a contributing editor to Canadian Art Magazine.

Iain Baxter
ìSome of the most prodigious and inventive of all idea or Conceptual Art done in Canada has stemmed from Iain Baxter and the N.E. Thing Company that he founded with Ingrid Baxter in 1967. His work has been extensively concerned with the means and meanings of communications, with the interchange of data, and with the relationship between the personal generation of ideas and their objective transmission.î David Burnett, Contemporary Canadian Art.

John McEwen
Co-founder and former director of A Space, sculptor John McEwen lives and works near Toronto. Each of his works-which usually include animal silhouettes flame cut from thick plates of steel- is created for a specific temporal and physical site. ìAt play in his work is not only a Conceptualist esthetic that stresses linguistic and contextual considerations but also an unsentimental, sometimes dark poetry of pastoral North Americanlifeî Robert Berlind, Art in America.

Lynne Cohen
Photographer Lynne Cohenís work is concerned with the visual manifestations of North American lifestyles. During the past ten years she has recorded a vast inventory of contemporary interior environments, both public and private,through their design, dÈcor and furnishings, illustrate the aspirations and functions of our society. Her photographs have been seen widely in Canada and abroad in publications and exhibitions, Cohen has taught at the University of Ottawa since 1974.

Rita McKeough
Now working in Toronto, Nova Scotia-born McKeough is a printmaker, sculptor, installation artist, musician and disc jockey. She has been producing major installations and site works since 1977. McKeoughís works deal wih the social significance of urban demolition and re-development, radioactive wastelands, pollution, uranium mining and the effects of these, in human terms, on the quality of out future.

Mowry Baden
Since the early 1970ís, the sculptures of Mowry Baden have consistently raised the issue of the individual in opposition to the homogenizing aspects of consumer culture. His recent works use sculptural references to food production and health-spa technology to cleverly invert the logic of consumerism. Baden teaches sculpture at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.

John Will
Known for his wryly humourous works, Calgary artist John Will is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, video and performance artist. His work is included in man public collections across North America; the Art Gallery of Windsor purchased three of Willís video tapes this past year. Will has taught at the University of Calgary since 1971.

Tanya Mars
Tanya Mars has worked extensively in performance for 12 years. Her ìwomen and powerî trilogy of performances-Pure Sin, Pure Nonsense, and Pure Virtue- premiered over the past year. Mars is the editor of Palallelogramme and is a politically active in feminist and artistsí circles in Toronto and across Canada.

Christopher Pratt
A major retrospective of the work of Newfoundland artist, Christopher Pratt, toured the country in 1986. He has developed a style immediately recognizable for its clarity and precision. Based on personal experiences, Prattís representational paintings are transformed into iconic images through his use of strongly geometric composition and cool, detached tones.

 

1986-87:
Roland Brenner

Noel Harding

David Buchan

Cynthia Short

Judith Schwartz

Doug Kirton

Renee Van Helm

Liz Magor

Jocelyne Alooucherie
Born in 1947 in Québec City, Jocelyne Alloucherie lives and works in Montréal. Since 1973, her numerous Canadian exhibitions have included shows at the Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée du Québec and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, as well as at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. She acquired international recognition in the early 1990s with exhibitions at the Centre canadien d'art contemporain in New York, the Centre culturel canadien in Paris, and with the exhibitions Anninovanta in Bologna, Différentes Natures in Paris, and most recently, Cadres, Fenêtres, Lieux held in Bar-le-Duc in France. Invited to participate in The Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in 1989, she also participated in the Biennale de Montréal 1998, and will soon take part in the Biennale de photographie et d'arts visuels de Liège 2001. Jocelyne Alloucherie is represented by Josselyne Naef Art Contemporain in Montréal, Galerie Françoise Paviot in Paris, Galleria The Box Associati in Turin, and by Claudia Delank in Cologne.

Shelagh Alexander
Shelagh Alexander is an artist living in Toronto. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and studied fine arts at York University in 1977 and 1978. In 1981, she graduated from the Ontario College of Art. She was a co-founder of Grace Hopper Artists' Collective in Toronto. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally, including an exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London and the Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada in 1989.


Russel Keziere

Alan Wood

John Scott

Al McWilliams

Philip Monk

 

1986:
Eva Brandl

Rober Weins

Bobby Oliver

Tim Zuck

Lorne Falk

Joey Morgan

Robert Irwin

Jeffrey Spalding