Frank Shebageget coming soon & holiday greetings

Here at Gallery 1C03 we are eagerly anticipating our first exhibition of 2013: a solo show of two sculptural installations by Ottawa-based Anishinabe artist Frank Shebageget! Frank will be presenting a new iteration of Cell in the gallery (an installation view of the original work when it was shown at Carleton University Art Gallery can be seen above) as well as smaller works titled Castor's Castoreum which will be shown in one of the University of Winnipeg's Anthropology Museum window vitrines.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 17 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03.
Public Artist's Talk: Thursday, January 17 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 2C13 (2nd floor of Centennial Hall) at The University of Winnipeg.

If you'd like to know a little more about the artist, you can visit his website. You can also check out this great interview on Vimeo. More details on the exhibition will follow in the new year.

In the meantime, we wish you a lovely holiday season!

Cinema Politica screening tonight - "Reel Injun"

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and The University of Winnipeg Students’Association (UWSA) present the film Reel Injun (Canada, 2009). Directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Reel Injun has won three Gemini Awards and a Peabody Award. It has been selected for screening by The University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Students' Council.

Synopsis:

Hollywood has made over 4000 films about Native people; over 100 years of movies defining how Indians art seen by the world.

Reel Injun takes an entertaining and insightful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through the history of cinema.

Travelling through the heartland of America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond looks at how the myth of “the Injun” has influenced the world’s understanding — and misunderstanding — of Natives.

With candid interviews with directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, Robbie Robertson, Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell and Russell Means, clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, including Stagecoach, Little Big Man, The Outlaw Josey Wales, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Atanarjuat the Fast Runner, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people from the silent film era to today.

Please stay for a discussion after the film.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome. 

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg. Click here for campus and parking maps.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Art Education Outreach at Gallery 1C03

Thanks to all of the students and teachers from Sister MacNamara School for coming to visit us at Gallery 1C03 this week! The students were led through an art education program for our current exhibition -- Jane Tingley's Plant (iPod) Installation -- by Gallery 1C03 volunteer art educators Ahlam Al-Khateeb, Sylvia Dueck, Victoria Nikkel and Sheila Soulsby. Gallery 1C03 is proud of our community art outreach program; if you would like to book a visit with us for one of our upcoming exhibitions, please contact Gallery Director/Curator Jennifer Gibson at j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca.

Gallery 1C03 & UWSA to screen "To the Tar Sands"

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) present the film To the Tar Sands in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on Thursday, November 8 at 6:30 p.m.

Directed by Emmy award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Jodie Martinson, To the Tar Sands (Canada, 2008) was selected for screening by the UWSA Bike Lab.

The film follows a group of nineteen young environmentalists as they cycle over 1,300 kilometres northbound across Alberta to witness the impacts of Alberta’s tar sands boom firsthand. They talk to farmers, moms and dads, an urban planner, oil industry workers, the chief of a First Nations community and others along the way asking “How has the tar sands boom affected you?” As the kilometres click away, they excavate into their own complicity with Alberta’s rush to develop the tar sands.

Produced on a shoestring budget off of the back of a bicycle, To the Tar Sands screened to a sold-out crowd at the Calgary International Film Festival and was officially selected for the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver.

Please stay for a panel discussion after the film on “Activism, Cycling and Empowerment”, facilitated by Liz Williams of The University of Winnipeg Campus Sustainability Office. Panelists include David Dorning (Coordinator, UWSA Bike Lab), Andrée Forest (Volunteer, UWSA Bike Lab and Ice Rider), Alana Lajoie-O’Malley (Manager, Campus Sustainability Office), and Anika Terton (Public Education and Outreach Coordinator, Climate Change Connection).

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome.

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg. Click here for campus and parking maps.

Gallery 1C03and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Image: Scene from To the Tar Sands.

Plant (iPod) review & interview with Jane Tingley

Kaeleigh Ayre has written a great review of Jane Tingley's Plant (iPod) Installation for The Uniter. You can read it here. Thanks Kaeleigh!

And two weeks ago, Jane was interviewed on CKUW 95.9 FM's "Eat Your Arts & Vegetables" program. You can download and listen to the interview by clicking on one of the October 18, 2012 program archive files at CKUW's site here. Heartfelt appreciation to EYA&V hosts Aleem Khan and Derek Brueckner for welcoming Jane to their show!

Jane Tingley: Plant (iPod) Installation

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg proudly presents

 

JANE TINGLEY

Plant (iPod) Installation
October 18 – November 17, 2012

Opening reception at Gallery 1C03: Thursday, October 18, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Artist talk: Friday, October 19 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2M70 (2^nd floor of Manitoba Hall), University of Winnipeg

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg is proud to present Plant (iPod) Installation, an interactive sculptural sound piece created by artist Jane Tingley. We are especially pleased to host this exhibition in conjunction with send+receive: a festival of sound v.14.

Plant (iPod) Installation explores the poetics involved in subverting the traditional hierarchy which positions plant life below human life and evokes the possibility of developing technologies that are nature-centric rather than human-centric. Tingley’s work also considers the active relationship between objects in the space of the gallery and the body of the viewer. As visitors engage with the tree-like plant sculptures of Plant (iPod) Installation, they will activate the sound system embedded in the objects which will trigger breathing sounds and narratives that are “played to the plants”. A combination of noise files convolved with sound files of breathing results in a techno-natural aural experience, while the narratives are drawn from diverse cultures and highlight the importance of the oral tradition with stories about learning from the environment. Through Plant (iPod) Installation, Tingley successfully brings elements of technology and nature together for a thought-provoking dialogue.

Jane Tingley is a Winnipeg-born artist living and working in Montréal. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University in 2006. Tingley uses new media, sculpture, and installation to explore ideas involving identity and contemporary experience. She is a founding member of the Modern Nomads, and has been exhibiting her works and participating in artist residencies across Canada and internationally. Her most recent activity includes residencies at the Museum Quartier in Vienna and at CAMAC in Marnay-sur-Seine in France; Roboexotica and Elektra festivals in Vienna and Montreal; and exhibitions at the Kunstlerhause in Vienna and the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. She has received support for her work from a number of funding agencies, including the Manitoba Arts Council, le Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. In addition to exhibiting Plant (iPod) Installation at Gallery 1C03, Tingley’s work will be included in TECHNOSENSUAL “where fashion meets technology” at the Museums Quartier in Vienna.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledgea financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg for this project.

Gallery 1C03 hours: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.. Admission is always free and all are welcome!

Image: Jane Tingley, Plant (iPod) Installation (detail), 2011, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

"Storytime with Uncle Glennie" performance now available

Couldn't be at Gallery 1C03 during Culture Days for "Storytime with Uncle Glennie"? Have no fear . . . you can listen to it here, courtesy of the magic of technology. Enjoy!

Situated Cinema photos & Uncle Glennie

Beautiful day for "Situated Cinema" on The University of Winnipeg's front lawn!

If you're out and about taking in Culture Days tomorrow, drop by Gallery 1C03 to listen to "Storytime with Uncle Glennie" at 2:00 p.m.

"Storytime with Uncle Glennie" and "Situated Cinema" this week

Get ready for Uncle Glennie . . . First, he visits CKUW 95.9 FM's "Eat Your Arts and Vegetables" program on Thursday, September 27 at 5:30 p.m. to read a few stories on air. Tune in!

Next, you can experience the real deal if you visit Gallery 1C03 on Saturday, September 29. "Storytime with Uncle Glennie" will begin promptly at 2:00 p.m. as part of the gallery's free Culture Days programming.



As well, Gallery 1C03 and The University of Winnipeg are pleased to host the WNDX Festival of Moving Image project "Situated Cinema" on the front lawn of UofW for 1 DAY ONLY -- Friday, September 29 from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.