Antimatter 2005

Media Installations

September 16 to 24, 2005

in the main Deluge gallery

Boris Firquet / Eltractor

Boris Firquet, imagiste extraordinare, founded Quebec City’s improvisational A/V performance group Eltractor in 1997. With the addition of musicians and data processing specialists David Michaud and Fabrice Montel, Eltractor has performed their inimitable brand of techno-based experimental electro-acoustic music to Firquet’s singular imagery throughout eastern Canada and internationally. However, they remain largely unknown west of Toronto. This exhibition focuses on Firquet’s brilliant and dizzying video work. Concerned primarily with the nature of perception and underscored by notions of evolution and entropy, Firquet dissects the human and digital machines, restructuring the warped imagery into a delirious and unrelenting information exchange between sound and image. Pirating material from numerous sources and animating anything that is capable of being animated—cataract surgery, architectural renderings, feeding bats, electrical schematics—Firquet creates, destroys and then re-creates the video structure in order to provoke a visceral reaction from his audience as much as an emotional one.

Boris Firquet’s work has been exhibited in Valparaiso, Tokyo, Berlin, Lisbon and Mexico City, as well as nationally at the Rendez-Vous Du Cinéma Québécois and The Images Festival.

in the Deluge entrance foyer

subrosa

Karø Goldt

Abstraction as sublimation: What subrosa demonstrates is how the complexity of an image can be greatly increased by a simple act of reduction or abstraction.

The accompanying track is precisely harmonized with this subliminal display of the colours’ spectrum. A continuous drone is shot through with microstructural rhythms, which results in an incessant shredding of the sound and image’s dimensionality. The stripes constantly shift along the horizontal axis while the illusion of a relentless vertical movement is created at the same time.

at UVic Visual Arts Building

la imagen que extrana al tiempo [the image outside of time]

Silvana Agostini | Mauricio Alejo | Hector Falcon | Curated by Erandy Vergara

This installation features a collection of video work by three young Mexican artists who have, at one time or another worked prominently in the medium of photography, but who have lately incorporated video into their art practice. Concerned with notions of distance, emptiness, mutable realities and critiquing the dominant Western canon of aesthetics, la imagen que extrana al tiempo is an a/v meditation on the elasticity of space and time. Sound is a fundamental element throughout this work, engaging in a dialogue with image through formal explorations of ordinary objects, perception (altered and otherwise), dream and trance states.

The artists have exhibited extensively throughout Mexico as well as internationally at such venues as the Centro de la Imagen, White Columns, the Museo del Barrio, Galleria OMR, Museo di Arte e Disegno Ravegna, Museo Carrillo Gil, Fotofest Houston, Museo de Arte Tamayo, the Kyoto Art Centre and the Feria Internacional de Arte (Caracas).