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WINNIPEG'S FESTIVAL OF FILM AND VIDEO ART |
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WINNIPEG'S FESTIVAL OF FILM AND VIDEO ART |
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VIDEO ALCHEMY: Tasman Richardson vs RKO (Paris) Live Video Showdown Saturday, October 9 @ 9 PM | Winnipeg Film Group Studio – 3rd floor, 100 Arthur Street ___________________________________________________________ |
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WE'RE CASTING A NET, CATCHING A BROAD SAMPLE OF DISPOSABLE SOUNDS AND IMAGES and then picking through them, reducing them to recurring themes, distilling the essence of what we catch and stripping away the fat and the filler. We're taking lead and making gold. We're using trash and mediocrity to create intense, immediate, sensational, spectacle. Basically, it's video alchemy. It's clear that our video cultures are so homogeneous that very little national distinction remains. What does remain is unifying symbolism and universal experience. This performance will feature the two artists going head-to-head using found media from their culture to communicate in a non-language based video performance. ___________________________________________________________ Tasman Richardson (Toronto) For over a decade Tasman Richardson has exhibited or performed extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, North Africa and Asia. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1996 where he developed the JAWA editing technique as his thesis. In 2002 he co-founded the media arts collective FAMEFAME. He spends his time developing video as a universal language by pursuing international collaborations with other video/audio artists. He lives in Toronto, Canada. (www.tasmanrichardson.com) RKO (Paris) RKO seems to draw his roots in a chaos theory that he applies to video in a destructive manner. Opening this century to the European sound of free parties, his experimentations, as well as those of the radical musicians that are RIPIT and TZii, are a visual, auditive,intellectual and emotional exercise of style for both him and his audiences. From this brutal initiation to a new approach to critical thinking through vjing, he kept an immoderate taste for vitriolic reinterpretations, especially cinematic ones. (www.vidioatak.org) |
