LocoMotoArt @ Queen Elizabeth Park
Experiencing nature versus grace
Words by Lucia Misch Video by Leslie Kennah LocoMotoArt Collective’s show of “digital eco-art” in Queen Elizabeth Park began at 9pm on Sunday night, meaning that my bike ride from Commercial Drive to Vancouver’s most elevated—and perhaps most beautiful—spot occurred at the height of the evening’s glow. Turning my head toward downtown as I crossed Grandview […]
Video Revolution! Making Your Message @ VIVO
One week tech camp teaches youth filmmaking with a purpose
Words by Alicia McLean Photos by Sheng Ho Sitting with the instructors of Video Revolution! in the trendy yellow chairs of VIVO Media Arts Centre, I admire the bright, sunlit classroom-to-be. Panoramic desktop iMacs: check. Compact DSLRs: check. Pair of enthusiastic and quirky teachers: check. So, what makes this week-long (Aug 5-9) workshop different than […]
Music For Lamps + Music For Internet + Music For Furniture @ VIVO
VIVO's Latest Video Bar immerses it’s audience in sound, light, and vibration
Words by Celesse McCarthy Photos by Dennis Ha and Elisa Ferrari I’m sitting outside City Centre Motel on Main. VACANCY is illuminated, and across the street, Hot Art Wet City is electrified by voyeurs. I’m drinking cider. I see a woman wearing a uniform sauntering down the sidewalk, whirling her sweater – the sun […]
Interview with Video & Performance Artist Lauren Marsden
An in-studio interview and on-site location visit reveal the history of Marsden's artistic practice and hint at where she's going next
Interview by Celesse McCarthy Videography by Sheng Ho Editing and post production by Ash Tanasiychuk Special thanks to Lauren Marsden for sharing her time with us. In studio interview: VANDOCUMENT talks to video and performance artist Lauren Marsden Video and performance artist Lauren Marsden invites VANDOCUMENT to her studio to talk about the evolution […]
Entanglement @ Science World
Vancouver photographer Michael J.P. Hall tantalizes us into reconsidering our relationship with plastics, and the biography of image appropriation
Words by Hailey McCloskey Photos by Sheng Ho I walk into Science World for the opening of Michael J.P. Hall’s photographic exhibit Entanglement: A Vision Of Our World With Plastic, and am directed to go upstairs where I find a group of people mingling, a bar and a DJ booth. My first view of the […]
Spatial Poetics XII: Release Me @ SFU Woodwards
Interdisciplinary and experimental evening binds both performers and audience through challenging conceptions of space and expectations
Words by Shalon W-H and Celesse McCarthy To kick off the 37th annual Powell Street Festival, an interdisciplinary event entitled Spatial Poetics XII: Release Me took place on July 6th 2013. On the top floor of SFU Woodwards Goldcorp Centre for the Arts is a small stage – Studio D – equipped with scaffolded seating. […]
Art Bar at On Main Gallery
Extensive mitosis and tessellation erupt into amoebic bear hugs
Words by Alicia McLean Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk “I wanted to create something that is as easy to ignore as it is to notice,” Patrick McManus explained to to me as we sat in the temporary side-walk-cum-lobby of the On Main Gallery. Dressed all in black, his patterned white collar conjures the impression of a […]
As It Is at Wil Aballe Art Projects
Opening night featuring six artists bursts the seams of this tiny gallery space
Words by Celesse McCarthy Photos of opening night by Ash Tanasiychuk Photos of art provided by Wil Aballe — THE ARTISTE As I approach the buzzer for The Artiste live-work studios on Scotia St, I see a woman standing there, perplexed. I, for some bizarre reason, am not prepared to engage. Perhaps it’s the heat […]
Destroy Vancouver: Where the Noise Is
words by Celesse McCarthy photographs by Alan Derksen The piano is puckered with fingerprints. The crowd is made up of fellow Jazz Fest musicians and the luminescent public. The purveyors are tamed and titillated. Even as they seat, they are immediately engaged in the space – as a species. Two pages of sheet music adorn […]
Summer BBQ Fiesta of Music at The Media Club
Four Local Bands Rock the Excitement of a Pacific Coast Summer
Words by Lucia Misch Pics by Faber Neifer Walking through the zealous warmth of Saturday night towards the Summer BBQ Fiesta at the Media Club, it was impossible to miss the mass of BC Place, sitting like an engorged anemone one block south of the much smaller venue. Rumbling cheers of white noise burst intermittently […]