FEMALE IMPERSONATORS!

We are looking forward to the Female Impersonators : Women Performing Women event this WEDNESDAY, March 13 @ 7:00 pm in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall at the University of Winnipeg.

The evening will include videos by Sharon Alward, Rebecca Belmore, Wendy Geller, Christine Kirouac, Divya Mehra, Freya Bjorg Olafson ,Victoria Prince, Nicole Shimonek, Lori Weidenhammer and Donna Lewis.

There will also be a panel discussion on feminist video and performance art with Sharon Alward, J.J. Kegan McFadden and Divya Mehra after the viewings.

As a bonus, Gallery 1C03 will be open prior to the event from 6:00 - 7:00 pm giving you the opportunity to also check out the Herstory exhibition.

Female Impersonators is presented in partnership with the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies.
Make it an "arts night out" this Wednesday at the University of Winnipeg!

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Female Impersonators: Women Performing Women

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg in partnership with the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies (IWGS) are pleased to present a special program of videos by Manitoba women artists. 

Organized in conjunction with International Women's Day celebrations and as a complement to Gallery 1C03's Herstory exhibition. Female Impersonators: Women Performing Women has been curated by internationally renowned performance artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan and will be followed by a panel discussion on feminist video and performance art with Sharon Alward, J.J. Kegan McFadden and Divya Mehra. The program and panel will take place on Wednesday, March 13 at 7:00 pm in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall at The University of Winnipeg. Come to watch the videos and then take part in the discussion with local feminist artists/cultural producers. 

Dempsey and Millan write: "Although camp has traditionally been the territory of gay men, it has long been employed by feminist performance artists as a means to critique gender and other culturally held absurdities through exaggeration, queens who clothe themselves in a heightened idea of womanhood, feminist artists have long laid bare the absurd rules of gender through its impersonation".

The videos in this single channel program of Manitoba works span twenty years from the late 1980's to the late 2000s. Each one peels back the surface of identity with intelligent humour. They mercilessly critique the overt and insidious impacts of patriarchy, bending assumptions about gender, orientation, history, sexuality, race and ethnicity along the way. In doing so, they insist on new readings of what it is to identify as female, broadening the definition to encompass a multiplicity of experience. Many express the most unladylike emotion - rage- and through its articulation urgently insist on social change. 

Female Impersonators: Women Performing Women will include videos by Sharon Alward, Rebecca Belmore, Wendy Geller, Christine Kirouac, Divya Mehra, Freya Bjorg Olafson, Victoria Prince, Nicole Shimonek, Lori Weidenhammer and Donna Lewis. 

This event is FREE, open to all and will take place in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg. Gallery 1C03's Herstory exhibition will be open for viewing from 6:00 - 7:00 pm on March 13 for those wishing to view it prior to the 7:00 pm start of Female Impersonators. For more information please contact Jennifer Gibson at 204-786-9253

We gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts for this project.

Image: Rebecca Belmore, Victorious ( video still) 2007

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.

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.