Only 1 more week to check out Trending!

If you haven't seen the latest window intervention for The Ephemerals: Trending, located in the Anthropology Museum windows on the 4th floor of Centennial Hall at UofW, you'd better hurry. The exhibit will only be on display for 1 more week. Above are photos from the intervention which includes a display of Cowichan sweaters - can you tell the difference between the real deal and the imitation?

In relation to this project, we are happy to report that anyone with a UofW Library card can now watch Christine Welsh's film The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters for FREE. Just enquire at the Circulation Desk!

Trending flash mob photos

There were tunes blaring from the ghetto blaster, cool duds and face paint. For those who weren't on campus Friday afternoon, here are some highlights from The Ephemerals: Trending flash mob. Thanks again to Scott Benesiinaabandan for the photographs!

Don't forget to check out The Ephemerals' blog for more on this project.

The Uniter's Fashion Streeter Features The Ephemerals

Check out Jaimie Isaac, member of The Ephemerals, in this week's Fashion Streeter in The Uniter!

Trending Reception Today

Some photos of The Ephemerals' appearance on CKUW 95.9 FM yesterday and their visit to the Aboriginal Student Services Centre on campus. You can listen to what they had to say by visiting CKUW's archive. Plus you can see more photos here. And don't forget to check The Ephemerals' blog for vid clips and more updates!

TODAY: Please join us for the The Ephemerals: Trending reception in front of Gallery 1C03 this afternoon from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Ephemerals on CKUW today!

Tune into CKUW 95.9 FM this morning at 11:00 a.m. to hear The Ephemerals.

Meanwhile above are a few shots from yesterday's bake sale, courtesy of Scott Benesiinaabandan. For more, check here.

Bake Sale Today

Check out The Ephemerals: Trending bake sale in front of Gallery 1C03 today. It's on until all the bannock is gone!

Also check out more photos from day 1 of the performative embedment here. Photography by Scott Benesiinaabandan.

theephemerals.wordpress.com

That's right, Trending fans....you can get the latest updates on The Ephemerals' new project at The University of Winnipeg by checking out their new blog. Go on, we know you wanna!

Get ready for Trending!

Only 4 more sleeps until Trending comes to the UofW campus....get ready everyone....it's gonna be amazing!

The Ephemerals: Trending, September 6 - December 3, 2011

Performative embedment (across campus): September 6 - 9

Installation (Anthropology Museum, 4th floor, Centennial Hall): September 6- December 3

Reception (Gallery 1C03): September 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Artists' roundtable discussion: September 30, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Gallery 1C03 is pleased to celebrate its 25th anniversary with the first programming project of our 2011-12 academic season, Trending!

Trending is a four-day performative embedment on The University of Winnipeg campus by The Ephemerals, an all-female Aboriginal collective of artists and curators. By inserting themselves into the university community, The Ephemerals will interrogate the trend of Indigenously-influenced clothing and accessories among post-secondary students, encouraging a critical reading of fashion as codified text and highlighting the need for a deeper awareness of its cultural implications. Images from performances and information related to the project will be uploaded to Gallery 1C03’s website as the embedment progresses. Further supporting this project will be an ongoing intervention in the public display windows of the university’s Anthropology Museum, drawing from and responding to the Anthropology Department’s Ethnographic Collection. Additional affiliated programming will include a roundtable discussion with the artists, a public lecture and a public film screening.

The Ephemerals is an emerging collective of Aboriginal women based in Winnipeg, Manitoba who are interested in curatorial and creative research. The collective was established by founding members Jaimie Isaac, Niki Little and Jenny Western to function as an outlet to foster and motivate artistic production within their individual practices and to develop collaborative projects that revolve around contemporary Indigenous art. Jaimie Isaac is an artist, curator and writer engaged in the arts on both a local and national level through her work with boards, collectives, juries and artist-run-centres. Isaac holds a Bachelor of in Art History of Art and an Arts and Cultural Management Certificate, both from The University of Winnipeg. She is currently a pursing a Master of Arts in Creative and Indigenous Studies at UBC Okanagan. Niki Little is an artist/observer who is interested in artistic and curatorial strategies that explore the reasoning of identity, culture and social exchanges. Little has studied at The University of Manitoba, the National Screen Institute and the Camberwell College of Art in London, UK. Jenny Western is a curator, writer and educator who holds an undergraduate degree in History from The University of Winnipeg and a Masters in Art History and Curatorial Practice from York University in Toronto. One of Western’s recent projects includes co-curating Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, a multi-venue group exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art from around the globe.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg and the Manitoba Arts Council for this project. We are also grateful for the support of the Anthropology Department of The University of Winnipeg, the University of Winnipeg Students' Association and CKUW 95.9 FM.

All programming is free and open to everyone!

https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/art-gallery-the-ephemerals-trending

Joan Scaglione: Regeneration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg launches
Regeneration by Regina-based Artist, Joan Scaglione

WINNIPEG MB, September 4, 2008 – Gallery 1C03 is proud to present Regeneration by Regina-based artist Joan Scaglione. This multimedia installation, to be accompanied by an outdoor sculptural intervention on the University of Winnipeg’s Alumni Green (Spence Street, between MacNamara Hall and Duckworth Hall), will explore the critical need for humans to dialogue genuinely with Nature.

Scaglione’s imagery often incorporates natural elements to underscore her belief in the interconnectivity of all aspects of creation, as well as her interest in the relationship between inner states of being and material forms.

Describing her practice as both material-based and process-oriented, Scaglione’s indoor installation will feature sculpture and video, the latter of which is a relatively new addition to her artistic repertoire.

The video, Water, will offer a metaphor for complete immersion into the materia prima of life, and it will furthermore express the regenerative powers of the creative imagination. A second video, Breathing, nested in a sculpture comprising of a bed laden with earth, rocks, bricks, and cultural artifacts, will create an intersection between the act of breathing, nature, and the cosmos. The bed is an ideal metaphor for a place of meeting where the dreaming self encounters the waking self, and where our internal and external selves enter into dialogue. Together, the bed and videos will offer a meditation on the inner worlds of the psyche. In addition, they will allude to the life-sustaining character of the four primal elements and seek to connect us with the ancient metaphysics of humanity’s ancestors.

On Alumni Green, Scaglione will install figurative elements extracted from the video, Water. Recontextualized through placement in a wooded grove, these figures will appear to float, not in water, but in the atmosphere amidst the trees.

Scaglione describes Regeneration as a constellation of images connecting our bodies and psyches to the Earth and its alchemy. She embraces Nature as an integral element that allows her to locate human relationships to the Earth metaphorically while, at the same time, she strives to regenerate and expand our perceptions beyond physical boundaries.

Members of the media are invited to arrange interviews with the artist on September 25 and 26.

Regeneration is available for viewing from September 25 – October 22, 2008

Exhibition launch: Thursday, September 25 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. (1st Floor, Centennial Hall)
Artist talk: Friday, September 26 beginning at 12:30 p.m. in Room 3C29 (3rd Floor, Centennial Hall)
Admission is free for all and all are welcome!

Gallery hours: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving.
Please note that the outdoor component of this exhibition is available for viewing at all hours.

The artist extends thanks to the Saskatchewan Arts Board for its generous support. Gallery 1C03 and the artist are also grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for its support of this presentation.

Image: Joan Scaglione, Water (video still), 2008.

Milena Placentile, Art Curator
Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9
204.786.9253 | m [dot] placentile [at] uwinnipeg [dot] ca
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