| Milena Placentile on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:19:36 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime-ann> Video Pool Media Arts Centre is Pleased to Present Robert Hengeveld's "Staging the Gap" |
. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents Robert Hengeveld's "Staging the Gap" Winnipeg, MB (July 10, 2008) – Video Pool Media Arts Centre is very pleased to present Staging the Gap, a provocative media installation by Toronto-based artist, Robert Hengeveld. Staging the Gap is a miniature model of a concert stage with silently animated lights and smoke. The work explores the relationship of fact and fiction in a technologically mediated world. Hengeveld critically reflects on the mechanisms used to deliver popular culture by focusing on how visual effects – stage lights, pyrotechnics, and dry ice – are used at concerts to shape our understanding of what we hear. Ignoring society’s desire for the spectacle of performance, the stage created by the artist remains empty while a precisely orchestrated light show plays out. Accompanying the miniature stage is a series of headphone each playing a different audio track specifically composed in response to the orchestrated light show. This inverts the traditional relationship of audio and visual experience in concert settings and addresses the role of audio in shaping our understanding of the world. Hengeveld's model stage measures 2.5m2 to establish a scale at which viewers are encompassed by the work, yet still feel slightly detached. Next, he coaxes audiences from their suspended disbelief into his alternate reality by offering a familiar space and encouraging them to relate in a familiar manner. This subtle slip from the norm creates a situation that challenges preconceptions while fostering a reevaluation of our spatial environments and our positions within them. This exhibition runs from July 29 – August 21, 2008 and will be available Tuesday – Friday from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Winnipeg Square (360 Main Street, below Portage and Main, Concourse level, Unit 3). Exhibition Launch: July 25 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Artist talk begins at 6:00 p.m. in Video Pool's Studio (100 Arthur Street, 3rd Floor); Reception will follow ARTIST BIO -- Robert Hengeveld completed his MFA at the University of Victoria in 2005 and received a Fine Arts Diploma and Certificate from Georgian College, and an AOCAD from the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has exhibited his work across Canada and internationally, and has participated in artist residencies in both Canada and Scotland. He is currently living and working in Toronto. These exhibition is presented thanks to generous financial support from: The Canada Council for the Arts, The Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTRE is a non-profit artist run centre dedicated to advancing the discipline of media art by providing media artists, non-profit organizations and community groups with access to professional video and media equipment, training, distribution, and programming. Video Pool strives to be a national leader fostering innovation, experimentation, critical dialogue, and advocacy in media arts. Contact: Milena Placentile, Programming Coordinator 204.949.9134 ext 1 [email protected] videopool.org // videopool.blogspot.com Image: http://videopool.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/10/ hengeveld_2.jpg – 30 – _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann