Sherrie Grabish and Andrea Slavik, Josh Kuisma, Lasse Raa
Video/New Media Installations
Curated by June Pak
February 11–March 6, 2004

Video/New Media Installation is presented in conjunction with the Media City International Festival of Experimental Film & Video Art.

Participating Artists:

Sherrie Grabish and Andrea Slavik
John Kuisma
Lasse Raa

Guest curated by University of Windsor instructor June Pak, the Artcite installations combined work from four U. of W. instructors and graduate students with one international component (the video Worms by Norwegian artist Lasse Raa). These works used video, sound and sculptural components to examine the human interaction with natural elements (as with John Kuisma’s mercury-filled sound sculpture converter-translator and Sherrie Grabish and Andrea Slavik’s ironic view of the moon, Rockets’ Red Glare).

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As part of the 10th annual Media City festival, Artcite also organized and curated the first Canadian exhibition of David Claerbout’s work, featuring two installations presented at the Art Gallery of Windsor (Vietnam, 1967, near Duc Pho and Kindergarten, Antonio Sant’Elia, 1932). James Patten, curator of contemporary art at the AGW, conducted a walk-through tour during the festival.

The video projections of Belgian artist David Claerbout use minimal digital manipulations to create a meditative space from the frozen moment of photographic images. What at first appear to be static images subtly change over time, exploiting the temporal tension between stasis and motion, history and the present.