To Move In or Form a SWARM

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Vancouver's annual 2-night festival of artist run centres kicks off it's 15th year

Photography by Ash Tanasiychuk
Text pulled from SWARM 15 site, plus event pages

Gropps Gallery. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Gropps Gallery. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

SWARM is a 2-night event that marks the launch of Vancouver’s artist-run centre (ARC) programming season with exhibition openings, performances, screenings and special events. Artist-run Centres (ARCs) are collectives and non-profit organizations, run by artists, supporting new and innovative practices in the arts. With a rich history that spans over forty years, ARCs have had a significant impact on the cultural ecology in Canada and around the world.

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Stimulated Being
a solo exhibition by Julia K. Kreutz @ Kafka’s

https://www.facebook.com/events/264209917102307/

Julia Kreutz, Stimulated Being @ Kafka's. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Julia Kreutz, Stimulated Being @ Kafka’s. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Stimulated Being aims to describe that energetic gulf between subject and stimulant, the moment of stimulation and the multiple vantages of stimulation. Julia Kreutz examines stimulation as a visceral sensation and phenomenon of understanding. The exhibition includes a series of illustrations of botanical stimulants that Kreutz was commissioned to make by UBC for a trading card game called Phylo.

Artists Sean Karemaker and Ola Volo @ Kafka's. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Artists Sean Karemaker and Ola Volo at Kafka’s. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Julia Kreutz, Stimulated Being @ Kafka’s. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Stimulated Being @ Kafka's. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Stimulated Being @ Kafka’s. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Stimulated Being runs September 12 – October 20, 2014 @ Kafka’s, 2525 Main Street.

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Life and People + Liquid Trust @ Western Front

http://front.bc.ca/events/life-and-people/

Life and People @ Western Front. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Life and People @ Western Front. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Borrowing its title from Vancouver artist Barry Doupé’s new film, the result of a 2013 Western Front Production Residency, our fall exhibition includes Doupé’s new work alongside sculptures by Vancouver artist Mark DeLong and animated Gifs by Toronto-based Lorna Mills.

* paintings / collages by Mark DeLong

Paintings/collages by Mark DeLong. Life and People @ Western Front. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

* GIFs by Lorna Mills “Party Manners (series)”

GIFs by Lorna Mills “Party Manners (series)” Life and People @ Western Front. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

* 22 min video by Barry Doupé

Life and People video by Barry Doupé @ Western Front. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Life and People video by Barry Doupé @ Western Front. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Investigations into oxytocin, a.k.a. “the love hormone,” fuel a grandiose multidisciplinary performance of LIQUID TRUST that incorporates video installation by Szuper Gallery (London/Munich), spoken word by Michele Sereda of Curtain Razors (Regina, SK), a Greek chorus, and new music by composer Ben Brown performed by the China Cloud Ensemble.

Liquid Trust @ Western Front. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Liquid Trust @ Western Front. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Life and People runs September 12 – October 25, 2014 at Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue.

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Gropp’s ‘Blue Shift’

https://www.facebook.com/events/687905544636305/
Zandi Dandizette + Anastasia Kabanova + Ezra Bloom (Fulford) + Jennifer Chernecki + Maddi DW, plus guests, including Jessica Snook and Taryn Goodwin

Gropps Gallery. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

“Blue Shift” is the kind of distortion experienced as things move away from us, both in space and in time. Dealing with nostalgia, and the accompanying feelings of nausea and vertigo. The constructed nature of built space, and the reality-within-the-illusion, where each place also has its place, are explored via sculpture, derive, decollage of matter, and minimalist illustration.

Gropps Gallery. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Blue Shift runs September 12 – 19, 2014 @ Gropp’s Gallery, 144 East 6th Avenue.

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Orchestra of the Uncanny Valley
by Dinka Pignon @ the new VIVO

VIVO Media Arts Centre. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

VIVO Media Arts Centre. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

http://www.vivomediaarts.com/dinka-pignon-orchestra-of-the-uncanny-valley/
W/ Emma Hendrix (sound design), Sharon Bradley (acting), Heather McDermid (violin & saw)

Does an emotional response to the replicant (or humanoid robot) shift from endearment to revulsion as our likenesses become indistinguishable? The Orchestra of the Uncanny Valley explores this question while enacting a rhetorical hypothesis across the fields of 3D animation, robotics, human aesthetics and modern epic theatre.

Orchestra of the Uncanny Valley @ VIVO. SWARM 15, Vancouver BC, 2014. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk for VANDOCUMENT

Orchestra of the Uncanny Valley @ VIVO. SWARM 15. Photo by Ash Tanasiychuk

Also screening Sept 19 and 26, 8pm–12am

FRI Sep 19, 8pm-12am, in conjunction w/ a conversation between the artist and Sebnem Ozpeta (curator of Pignon’s retrospective at VIVO in 2012)
FRI Sep 26, 8pm-12am, closing reception w/ a live performance featuring the artist and sound designer Emma Hendrix

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