• PUBLISHED on June 02, 2011

Wide Open Wide brings you twenty-eight queer films and videos that examine and play with notions of queer identity and that use queer experimental artistic expression to propose diverse ways of looking at sexuality, politics and queer media art itself. The films and videos selected represent artists from Victoria to St. Johns and beyond and a variety of genres that collectively profile the interests and concerns of queer media artists.

• PUBLISHED on May 26, 2011

Catherine Béchard and Sabin Hudon work in the fields of sculpture, kinetic installations, audio art, electronic art and performance. The exhibition will feature their multi-media installation The Circulation of Fluids, made up of 16 paper horns of various sizes mounted to a wooden structure by intersecting stems, multiplying perspectives and horizons. Each horn is equipped with a loudspeaker, an amplifier channel and an ultrasound sensor.

• PUBLISHED on May 02, 2011

Sound art has relational currency. It is social, spatial, physical, temporal and performative. The Circulation of Fluids by Catherine Béchard and Sabin Hudon is an interactive multi-channel sound installation about listening, sound, silence and slow movement using technology as a tool to serve content. Their investigation is framed by qualitative, symbolic, mnemonic and fluid properties of water.

• PUBLISHED on March 26, 2011

Jonathan Dueck’s practice is centered on collaboration and interactivity as a means to engage his audience as active participants. Dueck’s latest body of work brings together a range of media and processes: from hand manipulating archival 16mm films to digitally remixing visual elements to collaborating with musicians and sound artists in creating soundtracks for the films.

• PUBLISHED on February 27, 2011

We put so much energy into documenting our friends, we take pictures of them, we follow what they do, and their stories are more interesting than any banal afternoon television show. People are more interesting than they give themselves credit for. In So I’ve Been Told Hardy narrates their stories, drawing their asides, their inside jokes, cautionary tales, secrets, lies, and recipes. Through ink drawings, screen-printing, paintings, and embroidery she creates imagery from her imagination and immediate surroundings.

• PUBLISHED on January 26, 2011

Initially working via virtual collaboration with two invited artists from national and international destinations, Montcombroux explored ideas and methods towards completing a collaborative installation using a combination of sculpture, interactive kinetic elements, and architectural intervention.

• PUBLISHED on January 01, 2011

Les Choses Sont Contre Nous sounds like a heady reference to French theory à la the imported ideas of Jacques Derrida or Jean Baudrillard transferred often contentiously from literary theory to art criticism. The title translates to “things are against us” alluding to an opacity that is often attributed to theoretical discourse as well as to the exhibition’s subtle antagonism toward the viewer. After entering AKA by pulling a door labelled “push,” the viewer is greeted by a something resembling an obstacle course or construction site. The entrance is obscured by a short winding hallway that looks only half complete.