film still of Sunglow gecko By Kendra Epik (2020)
Collisions of Commissions
On View: Wednesday November 12 - Friday November 14
Presented in Partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre
Opening: Friday November 7 from 6:00-10:30PM PST
Daily: 12:00-6:00PM PST
Location: VIVO Media Arts Centre
Movement sparks journeys that come alive through the lens of a camera. It is a vessel for introspection, for experimenting with process and form, and for redefining space and our bodies’ relationship to it. On this common ground we find the intimacy and beauty of being held in community.
In a viewing experience that brings our bodies to new orientations, six CRT TVs bridge 52 of FORM’s Commissioned films, created over the past nine years to meet in the present moment. Each screen traces a unifying link that has unfolded across the years among the voices of artists across so-called Canada. Marking vibrant and dynamic moments in movement-on-screen, we reflect on the inspiring imprints these emergent artistic pursuits have created.
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Commissioned Films include:
Ralph Escamillan & Nancy Lee — Faux Solo
Kattie Coolidge — Children of Takaya
Patrick Blenkarn & Lily Ross-Millard — Heart & Soul: S 12. Ep. 10.
Francesca Frewer & Hector Palacois — Winterfeldplatz and elsewhere
Sabrina Naz-Comanescu — Bonum (boh-noo m)
Andy Chen — The Runner
Rachel McNamee — Home
Jamie Robinson — Spaceman's Word For Irritating Disturbances
Heather Lamoureux — Mother’s Map
Cydney Eva Paddon // PatternNation — Triangulate
Elizabeth Armitage & Aidan Chin — Foreign Ghost
Eric Cheung & Alimzhan Sabir — E_GO
Jennifer Su — Wave Hands Like Clouds
Roxanne Nesbitt — powdered sugar
Fran Chudnoff — ALL THINGS GROW
Jordan Campbell & Tyler Sloane — SEE QUINN RUN
Tamar Tabori — Run-of-the-Whip-Poor-Will
Jenna Mazur — Trace, Tread
Carolina Bergonzoni — All Bodies Dance Project — Ho.Me
Zahra Shahab — soft teeth
Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros & Lexi Mellish Mingo — Where We Meet
Kendra Epik — Sunglow Gecko
Corinne Langmuir & Erin Lum — Zì Jǐ
Simran Sachar — LUNACY
Talia Woodland & Germain Carter — INTIMATE AGGRESSION
Sasha J. Langford — Habitat 86
Jeanette Kotowich — Territory
Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd — AION
Alger Ji-Liang — motherland
danielle Mackenzie Long — Shouldering Intervals of Desire
Amanda SUm & Justin Calvadorez — Wide Stance Dance
Siam Obregón & Kyana Lyne — Roca Morena
Sophie Dow — Mountain Duets
Sebastian Hill-Esbrand — Booty Freedom
Emma Morris — Baby Teeth
Mirusha Yogarajah — Heart is a Witness
Solara Thanh-Binh Dang — Sóng Xô (Breaking Waves)
Juan Imperial — The Meeting Place
Lauren Brady & Thomas Kassian — Cut the Cake or Take the Cut Cake
Kevin Kim, Jullianna Oke, & Seth Kitamura — A Conversation in Rhythm
Ankita Alemona & Raam Kumar — Prowl
Joanne Joo-Yeong Park — TELL THE TRUTH (BUT TELL IT SLANT)
Satya Mari — LOST PARADISE
Raven Grenier — Spanochnonga
Adam Smith & Colby McLean — RELINQ
Marisa Gold & Darryl Ahye — Nothing Can Stay
Kaya Tsurumi — a drift in space
Andy Liu — Shadow Play
Shapeshifter Media Collective (Rae Grant Duff, Chantal Dobles Gering) — before transforming we exist
Ngaire Le — Taha, Ua (One, Two)