Many Ways | SCREENING

+ Curated by Miriam Arbus

Saturday, July 20, 2024 | 8 – 9:30PM
Charles Street Video (76 Geary Ave, Toronto, ON M6H 2B5)
Tickets available

A group screening in conversation with the festival's flagship exhibition, navigating between nature and digital, between technology and bodies.

FEATURING

Tadpoles in the Swimming Pool, Angie Lin Boyer
Perdere: to lose, to waste, to destroy, Manufacturing Entertainment (Julie Gendron and Emma Hendrix)
Post-Destination, Claire Breach (Rhubarcode) and Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg)
kaua’i ‘ō ‘ō, Samy Benammar
Crushed Between Ocean and Sky, Ella Morton
True True, Erica Whyte

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Angie Lin Boyer

Angie Lin Boyer is a new media artist and animator based in New York City. Her work engages with image-making technology, from 3D animation and photogrammetry to contemporary commercial and still-life photography, to explore questions of assimilation and identity formation. Angie’s work offers an intimate and narrative-driven approach from her experience as a second-generation Asian American. Her work explores domesticity and family relationships as a means to investigate the conditions of living in a society dictated by a technologically mediated worldview.

Manufacturing Entertainment (Julie Gendron and Emma Hendrix)

Manufacturing Entertainment represents artists Emma Hendrix and Julie Gendron. Collaborating for over 15 years, they work using multiple mediums, including video, sound, installation, analog/digital technologies, the internet and performance. Gendron and Hendrix's creations are a testament to their shared vision, expressing what is hidden in plain sight and exemplifying the creative capacities of observers and participants. Through sound, installation and visual forms, they transform everyday actions, objects and environments, conjuring multiple meanings and forming new points of view for their audiences.

Claire Breach (Rhubarcode) and Wenhui Jiang (Untitled-egg)

Claire Breach AKA Rhubarcode was born in 1996 in Belfast and grew up in West Lancs, she graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Newcastle University in 2019 as well as a master's in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art in 2023. Currently based in South London. A sense of knowing “you don’t have to take it seriously” is something she reflects upon with earnest intent. What is generated when we take typically inane things seriously and vice versa? This is the key question running throughout her work.

Wenhui Jiang is a London-based visual artist who works with multi-disciplinary subjects and media. She graduated with an MA in experimental communication from the Royal College of Art in 2023 (London, UK). Wenhui is fascinated by the entangled relationships between humans and technologies. Her practice has been exploring the changeable boundaries of human beings in the evolving digital civilization, by using visual fictionalisation, gamification and world-building as methods to experiment with critical storytelling.

Samy Benammar

Samy Benammar is a filmmaker, photographer and critic with a master's degree in film studies from the Université de Montréal. Samy's Algerian and working-class origins are central to his experimental work, which questions the socio-political stakes of archival and current images. His practice is as much interested in film (super 8, 16mm or 35mm), digital and analog media. This hybridization tends to question the interactions between technicality and politics of images.

Ella Morton

Ella Morton is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Tkarón:to/Toronto. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to residencies and projects across Canada, Scandinavia, Greenland and Antarctica. She uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes. She earned a BFA from Parsons School of Design (New York) and an MFA from York University (Toronto). She has exhibited her work internationally, including shows at Lonsdale Gallery (Toronto), Foley Gallery (New York), Contemporary Calgary (Calgary), Galérie AVE (Montréal), SPAO Gallery, (Ottawa), the Turchin Center for the Arts (Boone, NC), Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle) and Hanstholm Art Space (Denmark). Her films have screened internationally, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Montreal International Documentary Festival and the Alchemy Film & Media Arts Festival, among others. Her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the National Film Board of Canada and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.

Erica Whyte

Erica Whyte is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer in Toronto that believes art can change our relationship with space, objects, and new technologies. Her art practice is inspired by music and her interest in new tools for visual arts, sculpture, and speculative fiction.