I almost forgot to mention Petite envelope urbaine no 19. It’s lovely and I am honoured to be included. Thanks to the Centre de recherche urbaine de Montréal (CRUM)!

http://crum.ca/2011/08/15/petite-enveloppe-urbaine-no-19/

Square Pegs 4 Poster

Time: Wednesday, August 17 · 8:30pm – 10:00pm

Location: The Amphitheatre at Kingston’s Market Square

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, in association with Downtown Kingston, is excited to present Square Pegs 4, our fourth annual free screening of video art in Kingston’s MarketSquare. The program showcases the short experimental works of eleven talented Canadian video artists and filmmakers, including Kingston’s Maayke Schurer and Rebecca Anweiler.

The screening will take place in the amphitheatre at Market Square, which is located at the southeast corner of King and Brock. The show will begin at dusk (approximately 8:30 PM) on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011.

The program will feature an eclectic and provocative array of artistic approaches and subject matter. Produced during Modern Fuel’s High Octane Video Production Residency that was held for the second time this summer, Rebecca Anweiler’s video explores the temporary, fragmented nature of youth as her video is composed of a series of snapshots, capturing the pure yet fleeting moments of childhood. From Moffat, Ontario, Susan Detwiler brings “Dogswalkme,” a mystical maneuver through the woods using basic head-cam technology. Fallow fields, farm dumpsites and maple bush are some of the images that appear in this multi-perspective voyage that captures a unique interaction between artist, dog and landscape.

The screening is approximately 60 minutes long, and aims to promote Canadian experimental film and video, as well as Modern Fuel’s New Media Workspace, an equipment and training resource for aspiring video artists in Kingston. This is a great opportunity to come out and support local and national video artists. Square Pegs 4 has been made possible as a result of the enthusiastic support of Downtown Kingston.

Video Program for Square Pegs 4:
Yi Xin Tong (Vancouver, BC) – Bridge (02:37)
Penny McCann (Ottawa, ON) – Tourist of Memory (05:34)
Pixie Cram (Ottawa, ON) – Bones (03:36)
Audio Lodge (London, ON) – Backyard Ecology (8:21)
Josh Hite (Vancouver, BC) – Mates, Extras, Trophies and Trespassers(14:53)
Taien Ng-Chan (Montreal, QC) – City Transit (03:36)
Susan Detwiler (Moffat, ON) – Dogswalkme (08:12)
Maayke Schurer (Kingston, ON) – Undercover Artist (02:32)
Mary Porter (Toronto, ON) – Jameson Ave. (03:06)
Christine Negus (London, ON) – For, Like Ever (10:03)

plus High Octane Residency Artist Rebecca Anweiler (Kingston, ON).

Image: Christine Negus, “for, like ever” (still), 2010.

For further information, contact:
Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre
21A Queen St, Kingston, ON,
K7K 1A1 (613) 548-4883
modernfuel@bellnet.ca
www.modernfuel.org

Address: 5455, avenue De Gaspé, local 1001 (cross-street St-Viateur)

For more info: http://www.agencetopo.qc.ca/

Since I won’t be able to attend, the festival organizers asked me to make a short video interview about the film, which you can find here:

Yippee!

Wednesday February 16th, 2011
5pm-7pm
Mesa 14, 1425 Bishop Street

Join us in casual salon-style round table to generate dialogue between students, faculty and interested public to critically explore discuss questions and issues surrounding the intersections of study for the Humanities Phd Students.

Free drinks sponsored by Humanities Graduate Student Association (RSVP: katianwitchger@gmail.com)

The Performance and Space Salon will be facilitated by:

Joanna K. Donehower is a Seattle-born playwright, dramaturg, and graduate student whose current research and creative work stages spatial consciousness as a dialectical encounter of competing discourses, inhabiting the limen between mythology and materiality and trading in familiar and forgotten histories.

Shauna Janssen’s doctoral project focuses on documenting the reoccupation and adaptive reuse of post-industrial sites for cultural activities. Drawn to the power and affect of urban sites undergoing transformation, she examines the potential interim urban landscapes have to stage.

Rébecca Lavoie works in fields of Political Thought (of body/space), Performance Studies and art & sexuality, she seeks to tackle the notion of trace and is specifically working on questions such as performativity/bodies/space-time/Law/queer and liminal spaces and parody.

Taien Ng-Chan is a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and PhD student who investigates the poetics and forms of experimental documentary and fiction, urban life, and city transportation.

RSVP: katianwithger@gmail.com

OR

via facebook event: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Salon: Performance and Space http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages#!/event.php?eid=151723234881245

It looks like a super line-up:

http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/see-the-voice-visible-verse-2010-10th-anniversary-celebration-and-festival

Yes, I’ll be there… hope to see you!

From Deersigns, voice and text by Taien Ng-Chan, animation by Joe-Ollmann, music by Scott W. Gray

604.827.4771

Part of UBC Alumni Weekend and Asian Heritage Month.

http://www.tradewindbooks.com/new/henrychow.html

Branch Magazine

Excerpts from 80 du Parc are featured on Gillian Sze and Roberutsu’s new new new and very lovely web project Branch Magazine. Tons of great visual art and writing abound! My favourites include Alex McLeod’s dioramas and works by Team Macho. Check it out at www.branchmagazine.com.

Date: Friday, December 4, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: J.A. de Sève Theatre at Concordia, in room LB-125, 1400 de Maisonneuve W. (Guy metro).

I’m super happy and pleased to invite you to a screening of my MFA thesis film, 80 du Parc, a story about the strangers that you see on the bus and never meet. It’s 25 minutes long and shot on Super 16, Super 8, and cellphone video, starring Monique Phillips and Matthew Forbes, music by Gordon Neil Allen.

I do hope to see you there! And let’s go have a drink afterwards, if you can!

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Art doesn’t just happen. It’s a process of experimentation, development, intuition, research, doodling, dreaming, creating. And a lot of this process is documented in the artist’s sketchbook, where creative ideas are worked out. These visual diaries are wonderfully revealing, telling us about the way an artist thinks and works. The Reveal! Inside the Artist’s Mind exhibition shines a light on the preparatory work of four artists working in different visual arts media: the Weather Diary sketches of Bettina Forget, the rough-cut movie stills of Taien Ng-Chan, the automatic word drawings of Richard Rossetto, and the concept sketches for theatre costumes of Samantha Scafidi.

Exhibition Dates: November 26 – December 19, 2009
Vernissage: Saturday, November 28, 2009
3:00 p.m. – 5:30 P.m.