Waterbang
by Michael Wyshock

at ARTPORT, Paris & SAW Galerie, Ottawa this weekend.

MAY 15-21, 2008
COOL STORIES FOR WHEN THE PLANET GETS HOT
Festival International de l’Image Environnementale, Paris
Daily screenings of COOL STORIES between 10 am – 7 pm
For schedules please visit www.fiie.fr
Parc de Bercy / Chai - Orangerie - Maison du Lac; accès Accueil rue Paul Belmondo


ARTPORT is proud to participate in the first INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. The FIIE will launch this coming Thursday to feature international artists whose main topic and concern is the environment. The festival aims to sensitize the larger public to issues of sustainable development through the lens of photographers, filmmakers, and video artists. The FIIE is supported by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund).

curated by ARTPORT:
Corinne Erni, Director New York
Anne-Marie Melster, Director Valencia

COOL STORIES FOR WHEN THE PLANET GETS HOT is a compilation of 11 short videos by artists from New York and Spain who won a short video and animation contest on Global Warming launched by ARTPORT in the spring 2007. With: Fernando Acquarone (NY/Italy/Brazil), Celeste Fichter (NY), Chus García Fraile (Spain), Mireya Masó (Spain), Tomás Ochoa and Andriana Meyer (Spain/Switzerland/Ecuador), Yuko Oda (NY/Japan), Simón Pacheco (Spain), Simon Reilly (NY/Ireland), Avelino Sala (Spain), Molly Schwartz (NY), and Michael Wyshock (NY).

COOL STORIES premiered at Scope Basel on June 13, 2007, and was screened at JAM ART Mallorca (www.jamartmallorca.com); Valencia.Art fair (www.valencia-art.org); DiVA Paris (www.divafair.com); PooL Art Fair Miami (www.poolfair.com), Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York (www.filmlinc.com), Bridge Art Fair New York (www.bridgeartfair.com).

ABOUT ARTPORT
ARTPORT is a series of international art exchange projects that bring together artists of different cultures through residency programs, collaborations, and exhibitions that travel to several “ports” while promoting the cross-fertilization of art, science, academia, and politics. The first ARTPORT project, HURAKAN, will explore the effects of Global Warming.


Support us:
ARTPORT_HURAKAN is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt organization. In Spain, it is supported by the Fundación Pere Compte, an officially registered non-profit organization. To make a donation in the U.S., please visit NYFA's website by clicking www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=226&fid=2&sid=2. For donations in Spain, please contact our Valencia office.






RESERVOIR
curated by: Minh Nguyen

Club SAW, Ottawa ON
CANADA
67 Nicholas Street at Daly Avenue, in the Arts Court Building

Artists: Edward Folger (Ottawa), Zhenchen Liu (Paris), Theodore Lyman (Richmond, USA), Penny McCann (Ottawa), Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (Toronto), and Michael Wyshock (Oneonta, USA).

Artists Edward Folger and Penny McCann will attend the screening.

This program features six experimental works by Canadian and International artists that explore the poetic and socio-political significances of water.
Sourced from diverse filmic narrative approaches and techniques, these works traverse the metaphorical terrain of water as a reservoir of life and socio-economic growth, of personal memories and collective histories, and as esoteric musings on its references with space and time. Whether these re-invented narratives are built from still images or captured sights of experience, their individual sound collage functions more than just an element that underscores the visuals. Ranging from the natural to the heavily synthesized, each sound mosaic creates a complex multidimensional space of experience that intimately engages with the viewer.

In the fluid spaces of their narratives, these experimental filmic works are more than just sites of personal ruminations. They are the contemporary reflections on and about the significances of the mundane and of the social and political issues relating to water in a global world that is continuously changing.

Reservoir is presented in collaboration with the exhibition "Leaving Deep Water" at Galerie SAW Gallery. www.galeriesawgallery.com

Available Light Screening Collective is an Ottawa, Ontario-based volunteer organization committed to curating and presenting experimental film and video artworks within the local community. From its inception in 1995 as a Super 8 production group, Available Light has functioned as a non-incorporated artists' collective, a democratic and flexible form of governance in keeping with the shifting character of the dynamic experimental media artworks it is dedicated to presenting. Available Light gratefully acknowledges the public funding it receives from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Ottawa.




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