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New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century
July 17, 2010
Owen Eric Wood's videos Lost and Made Up will exhibit as part of an exhibition at Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA).
The show "New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century" (running from October 2 - October 30, 2010) will feature the work of over 50 international, national, and regional artists who explore femininity, masculinity, desire, pleasure, family politics, liberation and repression, pornography, prostitution, sexual violence, exhibitionism and other topics.
The show's theme recognizes that our digital media culture is saturated with sexual representations and complex issues of sexuality from teen "sexting" with mobile phones to YouTube "Booty" videos. The work displayed in this exhibition will probe, comment on, and question such issues through artwork produced in many media including video, performance, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, interactive computer games, and printmaking.
The opening on Saturday, October 2 (6 to 9pm), will also feature several performances.
The three curators of the show are MONA Director Jef Bourgeau, and guest curators Jonathan Lillie of Loyola University Maryland and local visual artist Steve Coy.
The show will be launched in collaboration with a special issue of NmediaC, the online Journal of New Media and Culture, which will feature academic articles on the same topic of "New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century."
Contact:
Guest Curator Steve Coy: loucoy@hotmail.com
Guest Curator Jonathan Lillie: jlillie@loyola.edu
For more information:
Museum of New Art, Detroit
Festival International Montréal en Arts
June 18, 2010
AT THE MOVIES
Short film projections
Montreal, June 18th, 2010 - For the second consecutive year, the Festival International Montréal en Arts (FIMA), in collaboration with the Vidéographe,
is presenting AT THE MOVIES, a series of short fi lms projected in the outdoor, on Sainte-Catherine Street East,
corner Saint-Hubert. The 2010 edition will showcase the works of innovative, philosophical and poetic filmmakers
Étienne de Massy (Quebec), Owen Eric Wood (Quebec) and Mihai Grecu (Romania), on July 8, 9 and
10, from 9 pm to 11 pm.
ÉTIENNE DE MASSY (Quebec)
July 8th
Étienne de Massy graduated from Concordia University. He also studied at the Tisch School
of the Arts in New York. His work focuses on the construction of forms, patterns and
volumes within time and space and explores the relationship between visual and abstract
narratives. In 2009 he received the 1st prize of the VAD (Digital Video Arts) in Spain for
Somnia_3.
OWEN ERIC WOOD (Quebec) | http://www.owenericwood.com
July 9th
Born in Toronto, Canada (1977), Wood holds a BAA in Journalism from Ryerson University
and a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University. His videos and video installations have
been shown at festivals around the world, notably the Japan Media Arts Festival, the Kassel
Documentary Film and Video Festival in Germany and Vidéoformes in France.
MIHAI GRECU (Romania) | http://www.mihaigrecu.org
July 10th
Romanian born Mihai Grecu has showcased his work in numerous fi lm festivals (Locarno,
Rotterdam, Festival du nouveau cinema in Montreal) and exhibitions (Dans la nuit, des images
at the Grand Palais, Labyrinth of my mind at Le Cube, Studio at Les Filles du Calvaire
Gallery…). His films explore various topics in a dreamlike style, including war, city life and
the environment.
For more information, bios and other information, please contact:
Marie-Chantal Scholl
Project Manager and Communications Agent
Email : mchantal@festivaldesarts.org
Tel.: 514-522-4646 / Toll free : 1-877-522-4646
For information:
Festival International Montréal en Arts
LAUNCH OF THE VITHEQUE PLATFORM!
May 20, 2010
The Showcase of Independent Video!
The only platform of its kind in Canada!
VIDEOGRAPHE* is pleased to announce the launch of the VITHEQUE platform on Friday May 28, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. at the Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT), 1195 Saint-Laurent Blvd. in Montreal.
A launch and a happening where live art events and video meet.
This launch is your opportunity to discover VITHEQUE in a friendly atmosphere in the company of many guest artists. Three of the artists whose work is distributed by VITHEQUE and who have been a part of Videographe's history will be our special guests this evening: Robert Morin, Nathalie Bujold and Marie-Josee St-Pierre. Artists and live events will take centre stage with performances throughout the evening: Sylvie Laliberte will sing, Aurelie Pedron will dance, Manon Oligny will present video-dance and Owen Eric Wood and David Manseau will present performances. The SAT will be transformed for the occasion into an deambulatory space with surprises around every corner. The evening will continue with music from 9:00 p.m. on.
This is also an opportunity to discover the platform in action. A complimentary drink awaits you on your arrival. We invite you to share this artistic and technological event in our company.
Accompanying this message you'll find the official press release for this launch-happening and a pass to the event. We invite you to forward this invitation to your colleagues and friends.
Contact
Bernard Claret
Director
Vidéographe
(514) 521-2116 # 12
bclaret@videographe.qc.ca
Annick Laporte
(514) 866-4720 # 231
info@vitheque.com
For information:
www.vitheque.com
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Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week
April 2, 2010
Owen Eric Wood's video The Clothes Make the Man will screen as part of FAT (Fasion Art Toronto),
the Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashoin Week. Events take place from April 21-25, 2010 at Liberty Village - Studio City, 1 Pardee Ave.
Each day of FAT has a theme, with The Clothes Make the Man playing on Saturday April 24 as part of "Joy"
- a day that will survey fashion and clothing from a colourful, lively and fun point of view, showcasing fashion
designers, performers, artists and musicians whose work is whimsical, playful and outrageous. Wood's video will screen at 8:55 p.m. as well as during the after party later that night.
For information about FAT:
www.alternativefashionweek.com
For more information about The Clothes Make the Man:
www.owenericwood.com/theclothesmaketheman
To contact Owen Eric Wood, e-mail:
info @ owenericwood.com
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Holobomo honoured at Videoformes
March 28, 2010
Owen Eric Wood's short video Holobomo received a jury mention at Videoformes International Manifestation of Video Art and Digital Cultures
in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The annual competition offers a space for young creation, presenting a selection of original and imaginative videos, often produced independently.
For information about Videoformes:
www.videoformes-fest-engl.com
For more information about Holobomo:
www.owenericwood.com/holobomo
To contact Owen Eric Wood, e-mail:
info @ owenericwood.com
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Artist Residency - One Place Leads to Another
March 14, 2010
english version follows
D'un lieu à un autre
Résidence d'artistes ouverte au public
Du 15 au 28 mars 2010
Aux ateliers Jean-Brillant
661 Rose-de-Lima, Montréal
Durant deux semaines, 11 artistes émergents investissent un vaste espace industriel du quartier St-Henri. Les artistes Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, Guillaume Allyson, Claire Dumoulin et Geneviève Gallant initient le projet D’un lieu à un autre, une résidence d’artistes ouverte au public qui allie art relationnel, art in situ, arts médiatiques et performance. Se joignent à eux les artistes Brett Bergmann, Myriam Jacob-Allard, Alexis Lepage, Owen Eric Wood, Florence S. Larose, Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Sarah Zakaib ainsi que l’auteure Shauna Janssen.
D’un lieu à un autre se veut une occasion de défier la notion d’oeuvre-objet et les paramètres d’exposition que proposent les institutions. Ce n’est pas tant la résultante qui importe que le processus de familiarisation au lieu, à l’environnement.
La résidence incluera trois événements à ne pas manquer:
La procession, samedi le 20 mars à 13h
La soirée de performance, mardi le 23 mars à 19h
Le finissage, vendredi le 26 mars à 19h
Pour suivre l'évolution de notre résidence, adhérez à notre groupe facebook
One Place Leads to Another
Artist residency, open to the public
March 15-28, 2010
Jean-Brillant Studios
661 Rose-de-Lima, Montréal
For two weeks, 11 emerging artists will invade an industrial space in the St-Henri area. Artists/curators Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, Guillaume Allyson, Claire Dumoulin and Geneviève Gallant are initiating the project One Place Leads to Another, an artist residency open to the public. The project allies relational art, cross-disciplinary arts, performance and in situ production. The artists Brett Bergmann, Myriam Jacob-Allard, Alexis Lepage, Owen Eric Wood, Florence S. Larose, Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Sarah Zakaib, along with author Shauna Janssen, will join the curators for this happening of spontaneous creation, collaboration, and community outreach.
One Place Leads to Another intends to challenge notions of object-based work and exhibition standards. Emphasis is brought upon the process of connecting with one site, one environment, rather than showcasing the final result.
A FEW DATES TO KEEP IN MIND:
Procession, Saturday March 20, 1pm
Performance night, Tuesday March 23, 7pm
Closing event, Friday March 26, 7pm
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Parallel's Montreal Premiere at FIFA
February 28, 2010
Parallel is four years in the making. Beginning in 2005 as a series of still images that merge black-and-white photography with photo-realistic pencil drawings, Owen Eric Wood returned to many of the original locations to reshoot the project in video, adding movement and sound to his compositions. Editing the video in 2007, he struggled to write a dialogue that would compliment the visual narrative. He found it in 2008 when he showed his images to two physicists who interpreted his photos and drawings from the perspective of their own field of study.
Inspired by Gary Zukav's book "The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics," the script for Parallel applies philosophies of quantum physics (the physics of Einstein rather than Newton) to the experience of an artist. Quantum physicists believe the human consciousness has the ability to shape the universe at a subatomic level. In short, human beings create the physical world around them. Artists do this more literally, by materializing their visions of the world through various forms of creative expression. But what happens when these artistic visions are heavy with emotional and psychological weight from the past? Do such artistic expressions stall forward motion instead of being a catalyst for change?
In Parallel, Wood visualizes his struggle to find meaing in the act of creation. But through his repeated attempts to recreate his own image, he finds himself trapped in the very machine he created. He becomes stuck in a self-perpetuating cycle of artistic expression where every new image feeds back on itself, inspiring only the conception of more of the same. How does one break out of the loop?
Artist Biography
Owen Eric Wood's video work is a series of self-portraits that blur the distinction between subjective expression and objective documentation. He uses self portraits to construct personal narratives that confront social and philosophical issues, such as stereotypes, disconnection from family, and the reassertion of individual identity. His work unravels to deconstruct the very illusions he creates to offer alternative perspectives.
Born in Toronto, Canada (1977), Wood holds a BAA in Journalism from Ryerson University and a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University. His videos and video installations have shown at festivals around the world, notably the Japan Media Arts Festival, the Kassel Documentary and Film and Video Festival in Germany and Videoformes in France. His work is distributed by Videographe, based in Montreal.
Screening Times
Parallel, which had its world premiere at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo in Feburary 2010, can be seen in the FIFA short films program "Diagonals 1" at the following times and locations:
Friday, March 19 at 18h30
Concordia University – Cinema J.A. De Seve
Saturday, March 20 at 18h30
Cinematheque Quebecoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
For information about FIFA:
www.artfifa.com
For more information about Parallel:
www.owenericwood.com/parallel
Contact the artist/director by e-mail:
To contact Owen Eric Wood, e-mail:
info @ owenericwood.com
Visionaria Video Festival, Piombino, Italy
November 6, 2009
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Here is a picture of my the video installation Quality Time with the Family, which I performed as part of the Visionaria Video Festival in Piombino, Italy (October 24-31).
The project went over very well with the general public because it comments on the importance of using meals as opportunities to gather with those
we love and reconnect, which is a practice that remains at the heart of Italian culture.
My participation in this exhibition was made possible through support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
New Project Added: Parallel
October 8, 2009
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I have added my interdisciplinary art project Parallel to this site.
Parallel merges photography, drawing and video in a poetic offering on what it means to create.
On the Web site you will find detailed information about how the field of theoretical physics influenced the script.
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The Clothes Make the Man wins at TUFF
Sept. 22, 2009
Owen Eric Wood's video The Clothes Make the Man won the category award for Best in Urban Diversity
at the Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), which ran on monitors on the Toronto subway system form Sept. 11-21, 2009.
Wood was in Toronto for the awards presentation and closing party. His award was presented by filmmaker Ali Kazimi, who juried
the films under the urban diversity category and ultimately chose the winner.
Each day during the course of the Toronto Urban Film Festival, a fresh selection of one-minute films under different themes.
It is an excellent forum for emerging filmmakers looking to get mass exposure to a public audience.
The festival is the only one of its kind in North America, and only one of three similar film festivals in the world.
TUFF is produced by Art for Commuters (A4C), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting contemporary
artists by offering them an opportunity to show in the public spaces frequented by urban travelers.
Watch all of the TUFF films online:
www.visionaria.eu
For more about The Clothes Make the Man:
www.owenericwood.com/theclothesmaketheman
To contact Owen Eric Wood, e-mail:
info @ owenericwood.com
 In Lost, the artists reinvents himself in various photography styles to mimic the aesthetics of Internet chat sites and also to mock the narcissism that exists in online profiles. By using his own image, he acknowledges his participation in the very issue he criticizes.
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Open Call for Participants
August 6, 2009
Open to artists and non-artists alike.
As one of the artists contributing to the upcoming art conference Artivistic: TURN ON, I am taking a satirical look at Internet chat sites. For my project, titled "Lost," I am creating a mock chat site that will showcase a series of fake profiles in the spirit of Facebook, MySpace, dating sites, etc. My project questions the ability of online profiles to accurately depict a person.
The idea is to create a fun (and sexy) project that people can contribute to in the weeks
leading up to Artivistic. Contributors will connect through a shared false perception of one another in this online project.
There are two ways to take part:
1. THE EASY WAY
Give me permission to access your online profile (Facebook, MySpace, etc.) and recycle your pictures and text to create alter egos of you.
2. THE FUN WAY
Do the work yourself. Be creative. Be sexy. Make fun of yourself. Most importantly, distort the truth. Lie about yourself. Create alter egos. Send your material to me through email and I will add it to the site. (By sending me materials, i.e. photos, you acknowledge having the rights to use this material, and agree to provide me with the right to use this material online for this project.)
Check out the site:
www.owenericwood.com/lost
I will be working on this project up until to the Artivistic conference, so expect to see new profiles added on an ongoing basis.
- Owen Eric Wood
Send you material to Owen Eric Wood:
info @ owenericwood.com
New Project Added: Holobomo
July 29, 2009
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I have added information about my video Holobomo to this site.
In Holobomo, I use video projection on sculpture to express a desperation as I attempt to insert myself into scenes taken
from black-and-white movies. This is an exercise of "re-appropriation" as I have taken all the imagery (and some of the sounds)
from Imitations of Life by video artist Mike Hoolboom.
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July 21, 2009
Owen Eric Wood's video installation Quality Time with the Family
will be presented as part of the Visionaria Film Festival. The festival, in its 18th year, will take place in Piombino, Italy from October 24-31, 2009.
Quality Time with the Family is a visual art installation that combines recorded video and live performance
to explore identity through familial roots.
The artist recreates the experience of eating dinner with his family by setting up a mock dining table where each of his
family members are replaced by television monitors playing looped videos of them eating a meal.
Wood then performs his role by sitting at the table and eating a meal with the TV monitors, which are incapable of interacting.
Although Wood performs as though he is actually sitting in his parents' dining room with his family,
the artificiality of the experience is unavoidable.
Instead of connectedness, notions of disconnection are expressed.
Instead of family bonding, there are feelings of isolation and alienation.
The piece raises issues of the effects of geographical separation from family, and the mental distance
caused when communication breaks down.
"I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to exhibit this piece," says Wood.
"This work has particularly personal meaning since it expresses, in no uncertain terms, an emotional experience
that has weighed heavily on my mind."
Wood says he feels there has been a denigration of the importance of the family unit in
societies where media, technology and fast-paced lifestyles inhibit people from taking the time to connect to each other.
Television, computers and hand-held devices are supplanting physical contact, yet they are poor
replacements for the subtle interactions that occur in the simplest forms of face-to-face conversation.
Quality Time with the Family reasserts the family meal as an opportunity for familial bonding,
for people to get together and reconnect.
"The fact that an international art forum such as Visionaria sees the value in this work signifies to me that I have
produced an art work that touches an audience beyond my own community, family and personal psyche."
The Visionaria Film Festival chooses a very select array of works to fill its four components:
an international competition of single-channel videos, an Italian panorama showcasing video works produced in Italy,
the Second Life Special Prize category, and, lastly, an exhibition of video art works and video installations called Visual Arts in Movement,
within which Quality Time with the Family will be included this year.
Although the single-channel version of Quality Time with the Family has been screened at such festivals as the
Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival in Toronto and Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois in Montreal,
this will be the first time the installation has been exhibited to the public.
The Clothes Make the Man at FIMA
July 5, 2009
photo: Vincent Chine |
On July 2 and 3, I presented the installation version of The Clothes Make the Man at the Festival International Montreal en Arts (FIMA).
I adapted this project to allow for audience participation for the first time. Viewers were allowed to join
me in the activity of dressing up paper dolls, and taking them away as souvenirs if they wanted. I also incorporated
a life-size sculpture of myself dressed in a random clothing items from the pile of clothes beside it.
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Owen Eric Wood and Myrocia Watamaniuk at the Worldwide Short Film Festival
Toronto, Canada, June 2009
Photo: Shannon Ridler |
CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
June 25, 2009
I am back home from traveling to Toronto where my video Made Up screened as part of the
Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival, which ran from June 16-21, 2009. It was the first time I had the opportunity to
attend a festival full time and it was a great experience. All the screenings, workshops and social events aside,
I appreciated the opportunity to answer the questions posed by WSFF Senior Programmer Myrocia Watamaniuk
after each of the two screenings of my video.
I spoke about the use of self portraiture in my work and how I combine reality and fiction in the piece.
The second audience was a particular surprise since people laughed more than any previous audience that has seen Made Up.
I think they were a sophisticated bunch who understood the satire in the piece. This festival is a fantastic experience for filmmakers.
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May 4, 2009
Made Up selected for the 2009 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
Owen Eric Wood's short video Made Up has been officially selected to be part of the 2009 Canadian Film Centre
Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, June 16-21, 2009. Made Up will be featured as part of a program of short films thta will screen twice
at the Cumberland Cinema, on Wednesday, June 17 at 4:15 p.m. and on Friday, June 19 at 9:15 p.m.
This will be a Toronto premiere for Made Up, which has screened at Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois in Montreal and the
Torino International GLBT Film Festival in Torino, Italy.
Made Up is an experimental video that distorts image and sound to comment on the concept of masculinity.
What at first appears to be a straight-forward documentary-style interview is exposed as a carefully composed and manipulated visual narrative.
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March 28, 2009
Back Off!
Dissident Representations in Art and Social Movements
Friday, April 3, 2009 (12:30 to 20:30)
The CEDA - 2515 Delisle Street (metro Lionel-Groulx)
Spaces limited, reserve your workshops online
www.backoffinfo.com
Back Off! is a day of conferences and workshops organized to draw attention to political art being produced in Montreal and to understand how social movements use art to transmit their messages. The 2009 edition wishes to bring together people coming from different artistic milieus, having a common interest for various forms of activistic creation, and to create a meeting place for various actors of social movements who identify as feminists or who use a feminist analysis in their approaches. The goal is to bridge the gap between the academic and grassroots communities of Montreal, anglophone and francophone. Programming this year includes new workshops, reworked artistic practices, media reappropriations, and facilitated discussions.
Montreal-based artist Owen Eric Wood has been invited to be among the artists who will contribute work for the exhibition component of Back Off! He will exhibit for the first time his sculpture titled "Self Portrait," in which he presents a three-dimensional, life-size mannequin of himself, which is accurately proportionate in every detail, except one. Using his body as a representation of the male gender, he offers a subtle commentary on masculinity as he questions what it is to be a man. Although his critique was originally aimed at observed social behaviour in the gay community, specifically the importance placed on certain physical characteristics, the issues raised extend to women's issues. In his exploration of queer studies, Wood has found many parallels between the experiences of the gay rights and feminist movements.
Owen Eric Wood is an interdisciplinary artist who uses video, sculpture, performance, photography and drawing to discuss such concepts as family, identity and sexuality. He studied fine arts at Concordia Univesity in Montreal and journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he also worked as a researcher and writer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). His art works have exhibited internationally in Germany, Spain, Brazil, Italy and the United Kingdom, as well as locally at such events as the Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA) and Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois.
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March 3, 2009
The Clothes Make the Man premieres at Festival International du Film sur l'Art
Owen Eric Wood is thrilled to announce that his video The Clothes Make the Man will premiere at the Festival
International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA) held in Montreal from March 19-29, 2009.
The video will screen in a program with other short films in the category Media Arts — New Perceptions on
Tuesday, March 24th at the Goethe-Institute at 9 p.m.
Although the installation version of this project has been exhibited in Frankfurt, Germany and Montreal, as well as appearing in the art catalogue "Behind the Object," this will be the first time the single-channel video had been screened to a public audience.
The Clothes Make the Man comments on the power of fashion to influence the way a person is perceived.
Wood presents himself in a variety of costumes that reflect a broad range of socially-constructed identities.
Since no one person can be all of these identities, the viewer is left to wonder which one is real.
Interview with CKLN Radio
February 19, 2009
CKUT's John Custodio interviews Owen Eric Wood for the radio program QueerCorps, February 16, 2009.
In part one of the interview, they discuss Wood's video Made Up and the concept of masculinity in relation to queer identity.
In part two of the interview, former QueerCorps technical director Paul N. joins the
conversation to discuss gay chat sites and Wood's video 'Lost.'
Interview: Part 1
Interview: Part 2
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January 31, 2009
Made Up premieres at Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois
Owen Eric Wood's video Made Up, which explores notions of masculinity and sexuality, will premiere at the upcoming Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois. The video is scheduled to show as part of a program of short films and videos at the National Film Board of Canada cinema in Montreal at 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 22, 2009.
Wood has a second piece screening as part of the RVCQ festival. Lost, which has shown in other festivals in Germany, Brazil and the U.K., will show as a part of a shorts program in the Claude Jutra theatre space at Cinematheque Quebecois at 4 p.m. also on Sunday, February 22.
Owen Eric Wood is pleased to be a part of Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois for the second year in a row. His video Quality Time with the Family was part of the RVCQ festival in 2008.
For more information about the Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois festival, go to:
www.rvcq.com
For more information about Made Up, go to:
www.owenericwood.com/madeup.html
To contact Owen Eric Wood, e-mail:
info @ owenericwood.com
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November 22, 2008
Lancement du catalogue AU-DELÀ DE L'OBJET
BEHIND THE OBJECT catalogue launch
***English follows***
LES ÉVÉNEMENTS @ ARTICULE PRÉSENTE:
AU-DELÀ DE L'OBJET
Lancement du catalogue
Jeudi le 27 novembre 2008 à 19h
chez articule, 262 Fairmount O.
La galerie articule accueillera le lancement officiel du livre AU-DELÀ DE L'OBJET: Le rôle de l'action dans la pratique sculpturale actuelle. Comprenant un texte d'introduction par l'artiste Trevor Gould, AU-DELÀ DE L'OBJET présente un groupe d'artistes émergents qui résident et travaillent au Québec et dont le travail comprend notamment la vidéo, la performance et l'interaction avec le spectateur.
«Bien que nous travaillions individuellement, nos pratiques respectives tendent toutes vers une approche sculpturale qui dépasse le simple objet physique», rapporte Owen Eric Wood, l'un des artistes présentés dans le catalogue. «Certains d'entre-nous considèrent l'environnement où leur oeuvre s'inscrit comme étant déterminant dans leur travail, alors que d'autres cherchent à animer un élément autrement immobile en le fusionnant avec la vidéo ou en l'incorporant à une performance.»
Les artistes sont Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, Guillaume Allyson, Marilyne Barbe, Kim Cummins, Jean-Sébastien Gauthier, Allysha Larsen, Christian Ravenelle, Myriam Van Neste et Owen Eric Wood. Leur travail a été présenté dans le cadre d'expositions collectives à Francfort, Allemagne, et à Montréal, Québec. De manière individuelle, ces artistes ont exposé en Belgique, Espagne, Brésil, Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis.
Les artistes figurant dans le catalogue seront présents lors de la soirée.
Un vin sera offert à 19h30, suivi d'un discours. Une projection de vidéos tirées du DVD du catalogue débutera à 20h.
Pour plus d'information, contactez:
Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron
514 303.6236
andreanne@abbondanzabergeron.com
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EVENTS @ ARTICULE PRESENTS:
BEHIND THE OBJECT
catalogue launch
Thursday, November 27, 2008, 7 p.m.
at articule, 262 Fairmount O.
articule will be hosting the official book launch of BEHIND THE OBJECT: The role of action in contemporary sculptural practice. With an introduction essay by artist Trevor Gould, BEHIND THE OBJECT presents a group of emerging Quebec-based artists whose work includes interdisciplinary activities such as video, performance and viewer interaction.
"Although we work separately, we all tap into a shared desire to make sculptural work that is more than just a physical object," says Owen Eric Wood, one of the artists featured in the book. "Some of us see the environment in which our work is placed to be equally important as the work itself, while others seek to animate immobile material by merging it with video or incorporating it in performance."
The artists are Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron, Guillaume Allyson, Marilyne Barbe, Kim Cummins, Jean-Sébastien Gauthier, Allysha Larsen, Christian Ravenelle, Myriam Van Neste and Owen Eric Wood. The group has held collaborative exhibitions in both Frankfurt, Germany and Montreal, Quebec. Individually, these artists have exhibited internationally in such countries as Belgium, Spain, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
The featured artists will be in attendance.
Wine will be served at 7:30 p.m., with speeches to follow. A screening of the video works featured on the catalogue's DVD will start at 8 p.m.
For more information, contact:
Andréanne Abbondanza-Bergeron
514 303.6236
andreanne@abbondanzabergeron.com
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262, Fairmount ouest
Montréal (Québec) H2V 2G3
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Heures d'ouverture: mer - ven 12h -18h, sam/dim 12h -17h
Opening hours: wed - fri 12 - 6 pm, sat/sun 12 - 5 pm
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October 7, 2008
Outsiders Liverpool LGBT Film Festival accepts Lost
Lost, Owen Eric Wood's video critique of gay chat sites, will appear at this year's Outsiders LGBT Film Festival in Liverpool, England. In its fifth year, the two-week festival offers a selection of queer features and shorts from October 18 to November 1.
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September 29, 2008
Lost selected for Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival in Germany
It seems Germany loves Lost. For the second time this year, Owen Eric Wood's video will appear at a German film and video festival. The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival has chosen Lost from about 2,100 submitted films and videos to participate in this year's program (November 11-16 in Kassel, Germany).
The Kassel festival is a unique opportunity because it will be the first time Lost has screened in a selection of documentaries. Wood's video defies traditional documentary formats by constructing a narrative from dialogue taken from actual conversations the artist had online. In a sense, Lost blurs the distinction between fiction and documentary.
The video looks at the behaviour of gay men communicating with each other through chat sites. This examination of gay culture is meant as both a critique and also a confession as the artist acknowledges his participation in conversations that escalate in sexual content.
"I try to keep my work personal," says Wood. "I'm no expert on gay culture or social behaviour. I am only an expert on myself and my work, so I share my personal experiences and hope to tap into something other people can relate to."
Lost has received acclaim from both gay and straight audiences at screenings in Canada and at the Backup Festival in Weimar, Germany earlier this year. The video will also appear at the Mix Brazil Film and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity in November.
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September 8, 2008
Owen Eric Wood's Lost to screen at Festival Mix Brazil
Owen Eric Wood's video Lost has been selected to be part of this year's Mix Brazil Cinema and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity, which will be shown in four cities in Brazil from November 12 to December 19. This will be a South American premiere for "Lost," which has appeared at festivals in Canada and Germany.
Lost is a social critique of gay Internet chat sites. Using a series of self portraits, Wood mocks narcissistic behaviour and also question the way people create identities for themselves for their online profiles. Since every line of the script was taken from actual conversations he had on chat sites, Wood sets up an experience that teeters between documentary and fiction.
"When I first began to chat online, I became interested in the social interactions that occur between people who can remain anonymous," says Wood. "I started saving the dialogue, not knowing what I would use it for exactly, and eventually constructed a story out of it using photographs and video."
Although the video is critical of queer culture, Wood is careful not to appear as though he isn't a part of it. Instead of getting different people to read the various parts, he reads them all himself, making it difficult to distinguish which lines came from him. He also uses his own image and recreates a variety of photography styles seen in profiles, emphasizing the two-dimensional representations people create for themselves.
"One of my goals is to have a balance between personal content that comes from my life, and universal content that everyone can relate to," says Wood. "In this case, I wanted to criticize an aspect of gay culture without coming across as an innocent bystander. These are conversations that I took part in and it would be hypocritical of me to hide my participation in them."
The Mix Brazil Cinema and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity takes place at the following dates and locations:
São Paulo - November, 12 - 23, 2008
Rio de Janeiro - November, 27 - December, 4, 2008
Brasília - December, 4 -11, 2008
Belo Horizonte - December, 13 - 19, 2008
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August 15, 2008
Momentum to premiere
at Canariasmediafest in Spain
Owen Eric Wood's Momentum: a video series in four movements has been selected for the competition section of the 13th Canariasmediafest, which will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain from October 28 to November 1, 2008. This will be the world premiere for Momentum, which will be presented in the video art category of the festival.
Momentum is a series of four videos that explore synesthesia — the concept that stimuli experienced by one human sense can invoke another, such as a sight invoking a smell. In the case of these videos, relationships between sights and sounds are created by carefully manipulating and matching visuals and audio from different sources.
These formal experiments compare the reality captured by recording technologies such as video with the reality experienced by the human senses. Unlike the human brain, which filters information, the video camera records indiscriminately. Where the brain grabs still images of a landscape speeding by and then processes these images to makes sense of it, the camera only captures a constant flow of blurred shapes, colours and textures.
These videos not only mimic the human brain's desire to make sense of external stimuli (seeing images in clouds so to speak), but also raise questions about our limited perception of the physical world. Despite the constant movement and unclear meaning, this video series creates a meditative experience that is serene not disconcerting, focused not random, organized not chaotic.
Exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany
August 1, 2008
In January 2008, I was among a group of Montreal-based artists who traveled to Frankfurt, Germany for a
collaborative exhibition with local German artists. I performed my piece The Clothes Make the Man.
Seen above is the Gutleut 15 Gallery, including the material that I left behind as the exhibition continued into February.
I have mixed feelings towards the success of the experience. On the one hand, it was my first international
exhibition; that alone is enough validation. But I learned a lot. One mistake I made was to performed a piece that
prevented the audience from interacting with me (The Clothes Make the Man is about having to rely on
two-dimensional imagery of a person despite the fact that the real person is right infront of you).
I think I lost an opportunity to interact with an international audience. I will keep that in mind in the future.
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