Events Calendar - August 12, 2005 |
| Remix 2005 : North of 60 [ Static Link : iCal ] |
| City: | Canada, Ontario, Ottawa |
| Time: | Fri Aug 12, 2005 @ 9:00pm |
| Info: | Armed with a healthy disregard for copyright laws, the annual Remix project takes popular media to task, from Much Music to The Stanley Cup. This year, aboriginal artists from Montreal and Ottawa take on North of 60 in an attempt to redress one of the CBC's most successful television dramas. From love letters to hate-mail, these video remixes are a diverse response to a television show which both mirrored and distorted aboriginal life in Canada. REMIX 2005: NORTH OF 60 and ART STAR OPENING PARTY Friday, August 12 at 9PM SAW Courtyard / 67 Nicholas Street / Ottawa Entrance Fee: Pay What You Can with Skawennati Tricia Fragnito (Montreal), Ariel Lightningchild (Ottawa), Jeffrey Thomas (Ottawa) & Bear Thomas (Ottawa) Followed by DJ Session with Bear Thomas ! Remix 2005: North of 60 is part of Art Star 2 Video Art Biennial [ www.galeriesawgallery.com ] Art Star is presented by Galerie SAW Gallery with the major support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Dutch Embassy. The presentation of Remix is sponsored by SAW Video Centre for the Media Arts. REMIX 2005 Remix is a simple and direct concept. Television is taken from the rich airways and put into the hands of artists to be remixed and redistributed to the people. Having tackled icons of sports, music and information television, we now turn our gaze towards the dramatic form. But where exactly do we look on the sparse landscape of English Canada’s dramatic history? North of 60 was an obvious choice. One of Canada’s most popular English-language dramas ever to air, North of 60 was a welcome departure from the formulaic variations on the cops and robbers theme. Like other Canadian shows, such as The Beachcombers, Rainbow Country and Danger Bay, it also positioned itself in relation to an important psychological space in the Canadian imagination - the wilderness. More than this, North of 60 is one of the few efforts that popular culture producers have ever made to represent contemporary Aboriginal life. However, despite the fact that the show is undoubtedly a remarkable shift from the average television soap opera, it is still a product of the wonderful world of the CBC and the television industry at large. Most of what this industry produces, as we all know, is far from perfect. Every year, a new group of Remix artists piece together a program that examines all the irony, tragedy, humour and shock that an hour of television can offer. They break it down, dissect it and recreate it all from a new perspective, one that delights in its piracy, or should we say liberation, from the airwaves as it is released back to the audience. This year is no exception. Our more focused group of artists will handle the responsibility of making over another cultural icon, as we deliver a broader range of perspectives than you could ever experience on your television dial. Come join us for the most popular and irreverent media art program in the region as we celebrate the world premiere of three new works from some of the best artists working in Ottawa and Montréal. - Frank Shebageget and Ryan Stec, Curators For more information or to request interviews with the participating artists, please contact Ryan Stec at (613) 614-9782 or email sawprogramming@artengine.ca |
| Added: | Fri Aug 12, 2005 @ 9:00pm by » Belldandy |
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