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Please join us for the Opening Reception of Cold Cuts Video Festival VI:
There’s something in the way on FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH FROM 4-6PM IN
THE SOVA GALLERY.
The program curator, Christina Battle, will be in attendance to give a short
talk on the exhibition during the reception. This event is followed by the
Dawson City International Short Film Festival screenings @ KIAC from
7pm onwards. Please join us!
Cold Cuts Video Festival is the sixth annual curated exhibition of video works
by contemporary Canadian artists, run in conjunction with the Dawson City
International Short Film Festival.
Curated by Christina Battle, There’s something in the way looks at the ways in
which artists use the tools of video to stage and frame complex subjects. Moving
beyond solely framing the camera lens, works in the exhibition also play with time,
space and montage as they frame (and reframe) bodies, histories and memories.
ARTISTS
Association for Decentering Landscapes, Land Also Moves, 2016
Land Also Moves by the Toronto based collective
(Rouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson, and Ash
Moniz), stages a performance for camera
that references the resources used to create
infrastructures in Hongsibu (China) in the early
2000’s. Using cars as ‘actors,’ and trees within
the environment as a theatrical stage, symbols
referencing the structural elements that came to
become emblems of development move across
the frame drawing attention to issues related to
urbanization and land reclamation.
Tanya Lukin Linklater, The Treaty is in the Body, 2017
The Treaty is in the Body transmits Indigenous
understandings of Canadian treaty relationships
via the body. By framing the treaties as embodied,
and ‘the body as a way to know - a way to transmit
knowledge,’ the work calls for non-Indigenous
viewers to consider our own relationships with
the treaties that have so drastically reframed
Indigenous experiences.
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