Thursday, February 19, 2009
Colonizing Oort Covered in Akimblog
Check it out! Cliff Eyland loved Colonizing Oort. His full text, including coverage of other awesome Winnipeg-isms, can be found right here: http://www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/?id=262.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Cameroonian Artist, Issa Nyaphaga, to Perform at the University of Winnipeg on March 25, 2009
We're eagerly anticipating Issa's arrival on campus. In the meantime, please feel free to enjoy this short documentary about his practice:
Monday, February 9, 2009
Archived Radio Interview
Shortly before the opening of Colonizing Oort, Kevin Kelly was interviewed by a journalist from Radio-Canada. The interview aired on Friday, January 23.
For the time being, the interview (conducted in French) can be found online. To listen, click here: http://www.radio-canada.ca/REGIONS/Manitoba/Radio/Sitems/Index.asp?pk_region=4&id=79&IDEmissionFR=62&IDCat=3&leMois1=2009/01&sub=..%2F..%2F
then scroll down, waaaaay down, until you find:
Please note this website requires the use of a particular media player to access this audio file.
For the time being, the interview (conducted in French) can be found online. To listen, click here: http://www.radio-canada.ca/REGIONS/Manitoba/Radio/Sitems/Index.asp?pk_region=4&id=79&IDEmissionFR=62&IDCat=3&leMois1=2009/01&sub=..%2F..%2F
then scroll down, waaaaay down, until you find:
23 janvier 2009 - Exposition d'arts visuels
Dominique s'est entretenu avec Kevin Kelly, un artiste visuel qui a conceptualisé l'exposition Colonizing Oort qui est présenté à la galerie de l'université de Winnipeg.
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Dominique s'est entretenu avec Kevin Kelly, un artiste visuel qui a conceptualisé l'exposition Colonizing Oort qui est présenté à la galerie de l'université de Winnipeg.
ÉcoutezPlease note this website requires the use of a particular media player to access this audio file.
Kevin Kelly's "Colonizing Oort"
Kevin Kelly's work is much admired, and the reception it received here in Winnipeg served to underscore this tremendously. Kevin's opening on Thursday, January 22nd was extremely well attended and many shared enthusiastic remarks about all aspects of the show.
Thank you to everyone who braved the cold to share the evening, and a special thank you to Professor Tracey Whalen of the University of Winnipeg's Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications for offering such moving context and commentary. Tracy's deeply thoughtful and elegantly phrased insights were much appreciated and set an excellent preface for Kevin's talk the next day, which was also very well attended.
Check out that full house of eager listeners!
Kevin's tour through his history as an artist was equal parts informative and playful, and the Q&A/conversation that followed was very engaging. Thank you to everyone who joined us and participated!
If you haven't had a chance to see this exhibition yet, there is still time!
Colonizing Oort runs until Saturday, February 21st and can be found divided between two locations in Centennial Hall: Gallery 1C03 (1st floor) and the Buffeteria (4th floor).
ps. Kelly's experimental travelogue, produced in conjunction with As They Try & Sleep Press and the University of Winnipeg, are still available. This book was produced in a limited edition run of 100, and can be acquired for $20.00 CAD. Please contact us for more information.
Thank you to everyone who braved the cold to share the evening, and a special thank you to Professor Tracey Whalen of the University of Winnipeg's Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications for offering such moving context and commentary. Tracy's deeply thoughtful and elegantly phrased insights were much appreciated and set an excellent preface for Kevin's talk the next day, which was also very well attended.Check out that full house of eager listeners!
Kevin's tour through his history as an artist was equal parts informative and playful, and the Q&A/conversation that followed was very engaging. Thank you to everyone who joined us and participated!
If you haven't had a chance to see this exhibition yet, there is still time! Colonizing Oort runs until Saturday, February 21st and can be found divided between two locations in Centennial Hall: Gallery 1C03 (1st floor) and the Buffeteria (4th floor).
ps. Kelly's experimental travelogue, produced in conjunction with As They Try & Sleep Press and the University of Winnipeg, are still available. This book was produced in a limited edition run of 100, and can be acquired for $20.00 CAD. Please contact us for more information.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
From a galaxy not so far away...
If you pick up a copy of this week's Uptown Magazine, you'll be sure to catch Whitney Light's great coverage of Kevin Kelly's Colonizing Oort.
To read this article in full, click the image below or visit: http://www.uptownmag.com/2009-02-05/page3511.aspx
To read this article in full, click the image below or visit: http://www.uptownmag.com/2009-02-05/page3511.aspx
Remember, Colonizing Oort runs until Feb 21, 2009. Gallery 1C03 is open Monday to Friday from 12:00 - 4:00 p.m., and Saturday from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Admission is always free, so come on down n' check us out!
ps. Pics from Kevin's opening and artist talk coming soon!
ps. Pics from Kevin's opening and artist talk coming soon!
Monday, January 5, 2009
Kevin Kelly's "Colonizing Oort"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WINNIPEG MB, January 5, 2009 - Gallery 1C03 hosts new work by Winnipeg/Montréal-based artist, Kevin Kelly.
Colonizing Oort - a project involving new painting, textile work, animation, digital prints, and an artist’s book - is the outcome of five years of research and four months of travel, including a one-month artist residency at 1 Shanti Road Studio in Bangalore, India. Tantalizing Kelly’s thoughts for this period were space exploration, the growing presence of communications towers, and the sounds of a city buzzing with new forms of exchange stimulated by Western telecom culture. This exhibition is a reflection on those fascinations, as well as a desire to rethink perceptions concerning space, social interaction, and the impact of telecommunication as a new wave of colonization defined in terms that are simultaneously geographic, technologic, economic, ecologic, and cultural.
Trained as a painter, Kelly is interested in new technologies of seeing, as well as the way images change as they move from one medium to another and back again. Relating digital images of asteroids taken by NASA to his original interest in landscape painting gave him the opportunity to destabilize his sense of place and context. At the same time, his fascination with an extraterrestrial phenomena known as Oort - a spherical cloud comprising of comets and asteroids believed to exist beyond Pluto at a distance approximately one light year away from the Sun - gave rise to thinking about the nature of space exploration as a form of imperial dominance. This series, in effect, offers a humorous look at the idea of land ownership and colonization, as well as the resources used to justify such practices.
In conjunction with Colonizing Oort, As We Try & Sleep Press has collaborated with Kelly to produce a limited edition artist book featuring an experimental travelogue by Kelly and an interpretive response by J.J. Kegan McFadden, among other objects and images related to the project. Copies will be available for purchase at Gallery 1C03 . Established in 2002, As We Try & Sleep Press explores the overlapping points between the literary and visual arts on a project-basis. Previous publications range from poetry chapbooks to comic books, flipbooks, broadsheets, photo albums, and children’s tales.
This exhibition will take place in Gallery 1C03 with additional components installed in Centennial Hall’s Buffeteria, which is located on the fourth floor.
Biography: In addition to holding a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from Rutgers University (New Jersey), Kelly has pursued post-graduate studies at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands. His work has been recognized through support from the Canada Council for the Arts, among other granting agencies, and it has exhibited as part of solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, and in Europe. Kelly is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba School of Art where he has taught painting and drawing for the past five years.
Members of the media are invited to arrange interviews with the artist at any time.
Colonizing Oort will be available for viewing from January 22 - February 21, 2009
Exhibition launch: Thursday, January 22 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. (1st Floor, Centennial Hall)
Artist talk: Friday, January 23 beginning at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2C15 (2nd Floor, Centennial Hall)
Admission is always free and all are welcome!
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday: 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Closed Louis Riel Day.
Please note that the Centennial Hall Buffeteria is open during the University of Winnipeg’s regular operating hours.
Gallery 1C03 and the artist wish to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Manitoba Arts Council.
Image: Kevin Kelly, Ida (detail), 2007. Oil on aluminum, 3' x 5.5'. Photo by Sheila Spence.
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
uwinnipeg.ca/index/artgallery-index | gallery1C03.blogspot.com
Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg proudly presents
Kevin Kelly’s Colonizing Oort
Kevin Kelly’s Colonizing Oort
WINNIPEG MB, January 5, 2009 - Gallery 1C03 hosts new work by Winnipeg/Montréal-based artist, Kevin Kelly.
Colonizing Oort - a project involving new painting, textile work, animation, digital prints, and an artist’s book - is the outcome of five years of research and four months of travel, including a one-month artist residency at 1 Shanti Road Studio in Bangalore, India. Tantalizing Kelly’s thoughts for this period were space exploration, the growing presence of communications towers, and the sounds of a city buzzing with new forms of exchange stimulated by Western telecom culture. This exhibition is a reflection on those fascinations, as well as a desire to rethink perceptions concerning space, social interaction, and the impact of telecommunication as a new wave of colonization defined in terms that are simultaneously geographic, technologic, economic, ecologic, and cultural.
Trained as a painter, Kelly is interested in new technologies of seeing, as well as the way images change as they move from one medium to another and back again. Relating digital images of asteroids taken by NASA to his original interest in landscape painting gave him the opportunity to destabilize his sense of place and context. At the same time, his fascination with an extraterrestrial phenomena known as Oort - a spherical cloud comprising of comets and asteroids believed to exist beyond Pluto at a distance approximately one light year away from the Sun - gave rise to thinking about the nature of space exploration as a form of imperial dominance. This series, in effect, offers a humorous look at the idea of land ownership and colonization, as well as the resources used to justify such practices.
In conjunction with Colonizing Oort, As We Try & Sleep Press has collaborated with Kelly to produce a limited edition artist book featuring an experimental travelogue by Kelly and an interpretive response by J.J. Kegan McFadden, among other objects and images related to the project. Copies will be available for purchase at Gallery 1C03 . Established in 2002, As We Try & Sleep Press explores the overlapping points between the literary and visual arts on a project-basis. Previous publications range from poetry chapbooks to comic books, flipbooks, broadsheets, photo albums, and children’s tales.
This exhibition will take place in Gallery 1C03 with additional components installed in Centennial Hall’s Buffeteria, which is located on the fourth floor.
Biography: In addition to holding a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from Rutgers University (New Jersey), Kelly has pursued post-graduate studies at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands. His work has been recognized through support from the Canada Council for the Arts, among other granting agencies, and it has exhibited as part of solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, and in Europe. Kelly is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba School of Art where he has taught painting and drawing for the past five years.
Members of the media are invited to arrange interviews with the artist at any time.
Colonizing Oort will be available for viewing from January 22 - February 21, 2009
Exhibition launch: Thursday, January 22 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. (1st Floor, Centennial Hall)
Artist talk: Friday, January 23 beginning at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2C15 (2nd Floor, Centennial Hall)
Admission is always free and all are welcome!
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday: 12:00 - 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Closed Louis Riel Day.
Please note that the Centennial Hall Buffeteria is open during the University of Winnipeg’s regular operating hours.
Gallery 1C03 and the artist wish to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Manitoba Arts Council.
Image: Kevin Kelly, Ida (detail), 2007. Oil on aluminum, 3' x 5.5'. Photo by Sheila Spence.
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
uwinnipeg.ca/index/artgallery-index | gallery1C03.blogspot.com
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More coverage!
Check it out! More coverage of Rodney LaTourelle's Interval, this time on an Italian design site called Abitare:
http://abitare.it/events/colori-spaziali/langswitch_lang/en/
Enjoy!
http://abitare.it/events/colori-spaziali/langswitch_lang/en/
Enjoy!
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