NOCTURNE: CONTEMPORARY VIDEO AT NIGHT | KELLY ANDRES, MICHAEL CAMPBELL, KEVIN EI-ICHI DE FOREST, NIKKI FORREST, ANNE GOLDEN, NELSON HENRICKS, DANA INKSTER, ANNIE MARTIN, YUDI SEWRAJ, NICHOLAS WADE
10.21.2006 | 11.18.2006
Lethbridge artists and curators Michael Campbell and Annie Martin have compiled a diverse series of new and retooled silent video works to be viewed in the evening hours. The exhibition brings contemporary art into a visible and accessible setting, placing it in what is usually the site of commercial exchanges, a downtown storefront. The nocturnal setting emphasizes the luminosity of the video screens, and invites viewers to enjoy a kind of pleasurable wandering or “window shopping” as they take in the series of videos. The works in question are each artist’s response to the silent and nocturnal viewing situation. They are short, eclectic and remarkably diverse, representing a glimpse of contemporary Canadian video art.
Participating artists are: Kelly Andres, Michael Campbell, Kevin Ei-Ichi de Forest, Nikki Forrest, Anne Golden, Nelson Henricks, Dana Inkster, Annie Martin, Yudi Sewraj and Nicholas Wade.
Order of Play
Silent Film, 1994, 2:55
Nelson Henricks (Montreal, Quebec)
bird, 2006, 5:05
Kelly Andres (Lethbridge, Alberta)
La Chasse II, 2006, 4:25
Kevin Ei-Ichi de Forest (Brandon, Manitoba)
The Art of Autobiography: Redux II, 2006, 2:15
Dana Inkster (Lethbridge, Alberta)
Sommeil, 2006, 3:20
Anne Golden (Montreal, Quebec)
Late one evening: as I recall it, 2006, 3:05
Annie Martin (Lethbridge, Alberta)
South South-West, 2006, 6:15
Yudi Sewraj (Montreal, Quebec)
Untitled, 2006, 6:50
Nicholas Wade (Lethbridge, Alberta)
“07/06/06 – 12:00”, 2006, 4:00
Nikki Forrest (Montreal, Quebec)
The island at the centre of the earth, 2006, 5:10
Michael Campbell (Lethbridge, Alberta)
Kelly Andres is an interdisciplinary artist who considers technology, portability and location to create situations for sensory experiences. By incorporating banal objects along with electronic media, Andres deploys simple systems, objects and performances that allow participants to explore and interact with the immediate environment.
Michael Campbell is interested in obsolete technologies, remote landscapes, purposeless inventions, suburban boredom, bad sci-fi films, utopic schemes, adolescent fantasy sketchbooks and handmade tools. He has exhibited across Canada, as well as in Paris, the South of France, Japan and most recently in Kathmandu. Michael Campbell completed his BFA at the University of Toronto and MFA at Concordia University Montreal. He has taught in Montreal, Cape Dorset Nunavut, Inuvik N.W.T, Dickinson North Dakota, Poitiers and Sauve France and has been teaching at the University of Lethbridge since 1998.
Kevin Ei-Ichi de Forest’s work is involved with the representation of hybrid identity, namely with a focus on his cultural heritage as a suburban Canadian mid-westerner of Japanese and European descent. Born in Winnipeg, he holds an MFA from Concordia University. He has exhibited and participated in residencies across Canada, the Netherlands, the United States, and Japan.
Nikki Forrest is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, sound, drawing and installation. She is best known for short experimental videos which have been shown at festivals across Europe and North America as well as in several group and solo gallery exhibitions. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in open media from Concordia University in 1995 and has been teaching film and video at John Abbott College since 2001.
Anne Golden is an independent curator and writer. Golden has participated in numerous panels on curatorial practices, independent distribution and, more recently, horror films. is Artistic Director of Groupe Intervention Video (GIV), an artist-run distribution, exhibition and production centre for videos directed by women. She teaches in the Creative Arts Department of John Abbott College.
Nelson Henricks was born in Bow Island, Alberta and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art (1986). He moved to Montréal in 1991, where he received a BFA from Concordia University (1994). He has taught art history and video production at Concordia University, McGill University, UQAM and Université de Montréal. An artist, writer, curator and musician, Henricks is best known for his videotapes and video installations, which have been exhibited worldwide. A focus on his work was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the Video Viewpoints series in 2000. His writings have been published in exhibition catalogues, magazines, and in several anthologies. Henricks was the recipient of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art in 2002 and received the Board of Governors' Alumni Award of Excellence from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2005.
Dana Inkster has worked as an independent producer and cultural marketer. Her portfolio is based on the age old practice of storytelling and includes short videos and broadcast documentaries including the Gemini nominated and award-winning National Film Board of Canada production "24 Days in Brooks".
Annie Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Lethbridge. She completed her MFA at Concordia University in Montreal during which she began her work exploring perceptual sensitivity and multisensory experience, sound environments, and the experiential aspects and aesthetics of technology. In addition to her critical writing and curatorial activities, she has exhibited her installations, video and audio works across Canada, the USA, and the UK. Martin works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Lethbridge.
Yudi Sewraj is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist. Between 1992 and 2002 he developed a body of short experimental videos and films that have been shown in Canada, the US and Europe. This work explored ideas of “authenticity" and the particular relationship between the camera and the subject. His installation work developed as a means of generating both content and structure for his single channel work. Two installations completed during his MFA at the University of California, San Diego uses this approach: “Monologue Table - Rehearsal for an Apology” (2003) and “A Cold Night in February”(2005). He has taught filmmaking, media and films studies at John Abbott College since 2006.
Nicholas Wade lives and works in Lethbridge. He is interested in the bodily and emotional effects of the spaces which we commonly occupy and surround ourselves. Wade received his MFA from the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design in 1981. He has taught art at Queen’s University, Brock University, Tyler School of Art, David Thompson University Centre, NSCAD and since 1994, The University of Lethbridge. He has exhibited his work across Canada.
