You can watch Gabriel Saloman Mindel's YTSSP essay Mystery Ecology here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/gsaloman#p/c/1F3B9F7296AD9EC4

Also this evening will be a debut of Sade Sade's YTSSP inspired composition, War Requiem. A meditation on musical and lyrical forms of opposition to War,  War Requiem layers video featuring Benjamin Britten, CRASS, John Cage and Arvo Part to create an original sound work which acts both as a study and a response to these artists.

Co-presented with ARTSPEAK and VIVO Media Arts

The “projection performances” of New York-based artist and architect Bruce McClure are immersive cinematic [or proto-cinematic] happenings. Lightning surges of luminescence and thunderclaps of sine waves create visceral experiences on the screen and in the body. McClure’s illuminations are time-based: they are essentially ephemeral and singular, existing outside the bounds of simulation and reproduction. His alchemical, hallucinatory experiments with light, darkness and sound will employ two projectors running simultaneously. As beams of light converge with optically generated sound, the audience is enveloped in interactive play with apparatus.

McClure will conduct  four unique performances using two projectors: You Know My Methods (2003), Christmas Tree Stand - Part 1 (2004), Evertwo Circumflicksrent Page 298 (2007), and Cong In Our Gregational Pompoms (2009).

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Working the Room
12 + 13 December 2009, 10am-5pm
Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
Cost is $75 for Cineworks members / $125 for non-members

Led by Bruce McClure, this workshop will examine how the variously dimensioned spaces in the trajectory between the spectator and projected image, via lamplight, can be reconfigured as boundaries where cinematic work can be made.  

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Deliberate Obstructions + Calculated Aimlessness
10 December 2009, 7pm
Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
Free

This conversation with Bruce McClure will explore the potential of the 16mm projector as a liberated instrument of the projection of pictures and an optical soundtrack. Local expanded-cinema artist, curator and writer, Alex MacKenzie, will moderate the discussion.

Co-Presented with Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society