Antimatter 2010

Media Installations

October 8 to 16, 2010

in the main Deluge gallery

Wurld

Emi Honda & Jordan McKenzie | 2009

Wurld takes place on a small plot of neglected land hidden amongst the industrial and residential expanse that is Montreal, Canada. Salvage artists Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie made it their year-long task to restore this land to some of its former grace by rejuvenating the soil and creating a complex world of plants and objects within it. In the process this duo have summarized a history of humankind’s relationship to nature through the combined use of time-lapse photography and stop-motion animation.

Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie are established assemblage artists as well as musicians, internationally know as Elfin Saddle, an experimental folk group with recordings released on Montreal’s Constellation Records. The duo have recently merged their broad interests in installation work, sound art and gardening to create their first video work, Wurld, which premiered at the Viennale International Film Festival in Vienna, November 2009 and in North America at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal in May 2010. Honda and McKenzie have exhibited their work in various galleries and artist-run centres in Canada and the United States, and performed with Elfin Saddle throughout North America and in Europe.

in the Deluge entrance foyer

putting yourself out there

Clint Enns | 2009

A voyeuristic intervention into the lives of chat addicted users and commentary on the parasocial relationships often formed through internet communication. Music by Nick Krgovich.

Clint Enns is a video artist and filmmaker from Winnipeg whose work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown nationally and internationally in galleries, festivals and alternative spaces.

in the Deluge transom window

The Art-Qaeda Project

Wei-Ming Ho | 2010

The Art-Qaeda Project was realized with the support of electrical engineers, lighting designers and projectionists. In a mobile laboratory, this team of media adventurers set out to capture and create aberrant but discursive imagery and sound. The resulting aural and visual surveillance creates a strange and profound conversation with the surrounding city, integrating statistics and symbols such as the Environmental Sustainability Index and Morse code, while repositing the “value” of received information.

Wei-Ming Ho is a Taiwanese media artist whose work exists at the crossroads of time-based media and technology, both current and obsolete.