window

ARTSPACE BUILDING

bannatyne @ arthur
WINNIPEG, manitoba
CANADA
est. March 2012

WINDOW SIX: Jeanne Randolph (May - June 2013)


WINNIPEG’S NEWEST ARTIST-RUN CENTRE PRESENTS JEANNE RANDOLPH

Location: Artspace Building, corner of Bannatyne @ Arthur [sidewalk level]

window is pleased to present our sixth installation, Scriptorium Poems (2013) by Jeanne Randolph.

Statement

i look around in my scriptorium randomly attaching the titles of books to each other.  i do it all the time. my scriptorium shelves are littered with zillions of doo-dads.

Jeanne Randolph’s latest book is Out of Psychoanalysis: ficto-criticism 2005 – 2011 (Artspeak).  PLATFORM published her artist book The Critical Object [digital redux] in 2009.


*Image: Jeanne Randolph, Scriptorium Poem #2 (2013). Books, empty beer can, doodad. 

Photo Credit: William Eakin, document of work in-situ, Exile off Main Street. Lewyc Institute of Contemporary Art - LICA (2013)

WINDOW FIVE: MARINA ROY (JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2013)

For Immediate Release:

WINNIPEG’S NEWEST ARTIST-RUN CENTRE PRESENTS MARINA ROY

Location: Artspace Building, corner of Bannatyne @ Arthur [sidewalk level]

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window is pleased to present our fifth installation, “What’s Pushed Out the Door Comes Back Through the Window” by Marina Roy.


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Statement

The words that make up this sentence are more or less what I remember reading in an essay by Charles Fourier years ago, that early 19th-century inventor of phalansteries, theorist of utopias, and coiner of the word feminism. Whatever is repressed, oppressed, or forcibly excluded from a given situation or milieu, finds its way back in through other routes. Wildness eventually comes back to proliferate, through lapses linguae, ticks and stutters, through the decay of architecture, through steam released, through revolutionary eruptions. The rapacious serving up of our lakes and rivers to corporations spells out disaster. The vinyl from the text is an oil derivative. It is made up of ethylene (found in crude oil) and chlorine (found in common salt). One product of our ceaseless drilling. Here it presents images of how this very material backfires on itself, off-gassing on the back of words, a kind of unconscious reversal, the underside of concept, colourful matter and crude leftovers, mining for matter, and its wrathful revenge. The sexuality of plants strikes back. Living matter, constantly in flux, as it has little regard for our petty prescriptions. We will one day be found enfolded in a foot of filth, named the Anthropocene.


Marina Roy has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. In 2001 she published sign after the x (Artspeak/Arsenal Pulp), a book that revolves around the letter X and its multiple meanings. She is currently working on the next book, titled Queuejumping. In 2010 she was recipient of the VIVA art award, British Columbia’s largest visual art award for mid-career artists. She is Associate Professor of Visual Art at the University of British Columbia. 
www.marinaroy.ca

Roy will be in Winnipeg as the inaugural presenter in the lecture series, ACTIVE RESEARCH, organized by PLATFORM Centre for photographic + digital arts, discussing her new project — Queuejumping — Thursday 31 January 2013, 7:30-8:30 pm @ Red River College, 160 Princess St., main floor Roblin Centre, CGA Manitoba Room (P107). Admission is free.

www.platformgallery.org

WINDOW FOUR: DAVID LARIVIERE (November - December 2012)

WINNIPEG’S NEWEST ARTIST-RUN CENTRE PRESENTS DAVID LARIVIERE

Location: Artspace Building, corner of Bannatyne @ Arthur [sidewalk level]

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window is pleased to present our fourth installation, “MESMERIZING” (2012) A Nomadic Movie-Poster Project by Megalomaniac-Artist David LaRiviere. 

Statement

While the poster/artwork does not advertise an actual movie, it does emulate many of the familiar codes that are deployed with movie poster design and layout, including the sweeping panorama, heroic posturing, and supportive, textual accolades. On the latter point, while the hyperbole of such claims as “great art for all time” take something like a “rave review” to its logical (absurd) conclusion, in this particular case it is also apparent that the fawning praise is not attributed. Parallel to the idea of a movie poster without a movie, the “Mesmerizing” text operates like an accolade without an author, referring more to delusions of grandeur than any article in the real world. In this sense the work is itself satirical, perhaps akin to a movie satire that might be playing in the theatre, but rather than being a satire of film it is a satire of the film poster and the artist-as-subject. The “Mesmerizing” movie poster project was first mounted at the Roxy Cinema in Saskatoon, and was on display at the Globe Cinema in Calgary for the duration of the exhibition The Slight Return at Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary, and will occupy the window of ARTSPACE (formerly used by the Winnipeg Film Group / Cinematheque) until the end of the year, or possibly the world.

David LaRiviere’s current art practice encompasses audio art, video, web art, performance and painting. His interest in a variety of media is influenced by a research path that includes a still developing interest in continental philosophy. Earlier this year LaRiviere’s work was featured in a two-person exhibition at the Truck Gallery in Calgary and a group exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery entitled Beneath a Petroliferous Moon. In 2013 he will mount a solo exhibition at Neutral Ground in Regina. 

WINDOW THREE: COLLIN ZIPP (SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2012)

For Immediate Release:

WINNIPEG’S NEWEST ARTIST-RUN CENTRE PRESENTS COLLIN ZIPP

Location: Artspace Building, corner of Bannatyne @ Arthur [sidewalk level]

window is pleased to present our third installation, untitled (2012) by Collin Zipp.

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Statement

In response to window I want to offer a re-imagining of the potential in advertising spaces. Playing off expectations and viewer perceptions, I produced and altered a photograph that thwarts both strategies and expectations in commercial arenas. The image, which appears uncared for or perhaps even out of date and is certainly hard to read, may be considered in multiple contexts: is it a promotional poster, a failed landscape, a rejected spread from Better Living Magazine, or none of these?

Collin Zipp is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice addresses notions of viewer experience and perception. Interested in trickery and deception, he challenges viewers to assess their expectations when considering works of art. Zipp uses humour and storytelling to explore the role of the art object and its positioning within gallery space.

www.collinzipp.info

WINDOW TWO: ANDREA ROBERTS (JULY - AUGUST 2012)

WINNIPEG’S NEWEST ARTIST-RUN CENTRE PRESENTS ANDREA ROBERTS

Location: Artspace Building, corner of Bannatyne @ Arthur [sidewalk level]

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window is pleased to present our second installation,  High Jump (Repeatability, Accuracy, Interchangeability) (2012) by Andrea Roberts.


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Statement

A small plaster figure precariously hangs from another, clutching at a suspended cross bar, both solidly affixed and nullified by their opposing forces.
 High Jump is part of a recent body of work that explores absurdity, the relationship between embodied experience and the surrounding environment, and the impossibility of attempting to complete a task with inappropriate tools. Here I am interested in what happens to the body in competition, not on the podium or at the finish line, but in the moments of wholeheartedly aiming and missing the mark; a place of everyday rupture and chaos.

 

Andrea Roberts is a Winnipeg based intermedia artist and musician whose sculptural and print based works often explore vulnerability, futility, and humour in relation to the gendered body. Her recent projects include working with the Winnipeg artist’s collective NGTVSPC, performing in and releasing a string of 7” records with the band Wolbachia, and teaching printmaking at Martha Street Studio. Roberts received her BFA Hons. from the University of Manitoba in 2011. In Fall 2012 she will be trading Manitoba’s flatland for hilly San Francisco to pursue her MFA at California College of the Arts.

window one: STEVEN LEYDEN COCHRANE (May - June 2012)

window is pleased to present our inaugural installation, Screen Wall Blocks (Window)by Steven Leyden Cochrane.

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Statement

Screen Wall Blocks (Window) is the first sculptural work in an ongoing series based on the pierced concrete bricks whose widespread use was a defining feature of mid-20th-Century suburban architecture. The piece consists of full-scale foam rubber replicas of designs manufactured since the 1950s by the A-1 Block Corporation of Orlando, Florida (near Tampa, where I grew up), arranged according to chance in this and future site-adjusted installations.


Neither fully “window” nor “wall,” the modular lattice speaks to ambivalences and contradictions central to my practice—those between private experience and public display, representation and objecthood, repetition and randomness. The piece playfully (and affectionately) debases Minimalist preoccupations with regular, industrially-produced materials and forms and, like much of my work, foregrounds my own wary nostalgia for sub-tropical suburbia.


Steven Leyden Cochrane (b. 1984 Tampa, Florida, lives and works in Winnipeg) is an emerging multidisciplinary visual artist, writer, and educator. He has exhibited work throughout North America, contributed reviews to FUSE Magazine and a weekly column at Winnipeg’s UPTOWN Magazine, and held teaching positions at the Universities of Windsor and Manitoba. He holds a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and an MFA in studio arts from the University of Windsor. 

http://www.stevencochrane.org

welcome to window

window is an artist-run space for experimental and site-responsive presentations of contemporary art. window is occupied by one artist / collective / curator by invitation on a two-month basis, exhibiting work in any medium. It is expected that window will cease operations May 2014.

window measures 6’H x 6’W x 1’D, and is located at 100 Arthur Street in Winnipeg’s historical Exchange District on the ground level of the Artspace Building (Bannatyne side).