snow screening 2022
APRIL 1ST @ 8PM
The Cloud Factory Artist-Run Centre is pleased to present SNOW SCREENING at Blow Me Down Trails Ski Club. This one-night event will showcase 28 video works and short films from artists locally and across the world presented on a large-scale screen built from snow! This event is open to all ages and will be presented for free.
Access Notes
The screening will take place near the cafe at Blow Me Down Trails Cross Country Ski Club in Corner Brook, NL. The screening will take place outdoors and after dark. Blow Me Down is most easily accessible by car, and parking is available within a reasonable walking distance to the screening location. While a limited amount of bench and picnic table seating is available, attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, picnic blankets or something to sit on comfortably and should dress warmly. The cafe will remain open, serving meals, snacks, hot beverages and alcohol for purchase. If you have specific questions about amenities and accessibility at Blow Me Down, please contact them for the fastest response.
More information on the location can be found here: https://blowmedown.ca/
The Cloud Factory is organizing shuttle services to and from Blow Me Down and the Grenfull Campus. Please contact us at info@thecloudfactoryarc.ca with attention to Robert Hengaveld to learn more.
SNOW SCREENING is a 74-minute screening featuring the following works:
Alison Postma: Trying to pick up a rock with my toes
Andreas Rutkauskas: Against Nature
Brian Rusted: Dog Fish
Caroline Monnet: IKWÉ
Chantal Rousseau: We’re here for a good time
Daniel Laskarin: SEARS 2018
Diana Rojas: Event Horizon
Dominique Hurley: Mr. Preston Plays in the Snow
Drew Hogan: on a beautiful day
Ed Ackerman & Colin Morton: Primiti Too Taa
Erienne Rennick: Fibonacci Sequence
Eva Cvijanovic: Seasick
Georgia Dawkin: Untitled (deadlift)
Jaime Black: waawiyebii'ige: She Draws a Circle
Jerry Evans: Apaja'lujik Qalipu Herd 1
Kristin Snowbird: SWEAT
Leslie Supnet: A Small Misunderstanding
Maria Simmons: Density Test 2
Meganelizabeth Diamond: What Lit the Earth
Mike Maryniuk: Fish Arms
Mimi Stockland: Old Duck Pond
Monica Lacey: The Beautiful Edge
Navarana Igloliorte: Land Songs, Water Songs, Chants de terre, Chants d'eauis
Rachel Samson: Ice Time
Risa Horowitz: Recherchebreen Lagoon
Shan Leigh Pomeroy: MEMENTO MORI
Shauna Oddleifson & Joanne Gervais: Sea Dreams
Tamar Tabori: Layer 17
About the Artists
Alison Postma (they/she) is an artist currently based in Toronto. Alison graduated from the University of Guelph's Studio Art program in 2016 and is currently pursuing a second degree in furniture making at Sheridan College. Her practice is multidisciplinary, working mainly in photography, video, and sculpture. Alison was a winner of the Emerging Digital Artists Award presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video in 2020. In September 2020, they became a cofounder of a new collective-run gallery space in Toronto, the plumb, dedicated to making physical space for emerging artists in the city. Alison's practice often involves working with found objects and juxtaposing them. Her work is intuitive, exploring thematic interests that include the relationship between objects and the body, skewed perception in alternate states of reality, and perspectives on past, present, and future.
Andreas Rutkauskas was born in Winnipeg (Treaty 1 territory) and currently resides on the unceded traditional territory of the Syilx (Okanagan Valley, British Columbia). His work focuses on the intersection of landscape and technology and features images of surveillance along the Canada-US border, cycles of industrialization and deindustrialization in Canada's oil patch and the aftermath of the wildfires in Western Canada. Rutkauskas was a 2018 Research Fellow with the Canadian Photography Institute and was the inaugural recipient of a residency with the Fondation Grantham pour l'art et l'environnement in 2020. Exhibited for the first time in 2020, his video Against Nature is now in the collection of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
Brian Rusted: Born and bred in Newfoundland, I am a retired faculty member in the Departments of Art, and Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. I still think of myself as a seasonal worker, and my creative work is informed by the interrogation of my settler upbringing in a deeply colonial place, I have been involved with performative writing (poetic, nonrepresentational) and lens-based practices (video, digital imaging, but also print and cyanotype). "Dog Fish" is my first animation project.
My creative work has been exhibited, collected by, or screened at the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, the Walter Phillips Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Marion Nichol Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, New York's Museum of Modern Art, Detroit's Museum of New Art, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, and Calgary's Nickle Galleries. I was a board member of EM/Media, Calgary's video ARC, and a founding member of the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society.
Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec. She studied Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Granada (Spain) before pursuing a career in visual arts and films.
Monnet is recipient of the 2021 Hopper Prize, 2020 Pierre-Ayot award, the 2020 Sobey Art Award, the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards, as well as grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and from le Conseil des arts de Montréal. She is based in Montreal and represented by Blouin Division Gallery.
Chantal Rousseau is a queer settler artist, born in Montreal, to a French Canadian and Ukrainian family. She is currently nomadic, overwintering in the Gaspésie. Her practice is informed by a bioregional focus, using both embodied experience and research to learn about specific ecosystems. The interspecies relationships she develops form a basis for animated GIFs, watercolours, and audio works.
Recent career highlights include a solo show at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and two temporary public art commissions, one for the City of Kingston, the other for Erindale Park in Mississauga, all in 2020. In 2021 she participated in four residencies, including: a virtual residency between Sweden, Spain, and Canada; in a mobile off-grid tiny house on Manitoulin Island, hosted by 4elements Living Arts; and at Bareneed Studios and the Pouch Cove Foundation, both in Newfoundland. In 2022 she will be an artist-in-residence at The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City.
Daniel Laskarin is an artist and a professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. His practice is one of restless contemplation. It is an investigation of our experience of self and of objects as other bodies, with an interest in the ways in which art may give sensory experience to consciousness, creating a bridge between substance and ineffability.
Understanding that the "expanded field" is utterly blown apart, his work makes things that stay together, that find their own order in a condition of disorder, and that at the same time remain unsettled. This work uses diverse media, drawn from industrial materials and processes, sometimes incorporating photography and video, optics, robotics systems, installation and sound. He has been involved with set design, public image projections, and large scale public commissions in the Pacific Northwest and has exhibited across Canada and internationally.
Diana Rojas is an interdisciplinary artist whose research explores human attempts and desires to engage with the invisible and sublime through installation, video, sound, and sculpture. Informed by her interests in philosophy, history, physics, and material science, she approaches the role of technology in art making as the catalyst for larger conversations of existence, consciousness, and metaphysics. Her work, which exists physically and virtually, has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Diana was born in Mexico and currently studies, and teaches at the University of North Texas, where she is a graduate student in New Media Art.
Dominique Hurley is an intuitive visionary artist, educator and naturopath grounded in her love of beauty and the beauty of love. She inspires through energy-infused paintings, photography, videography, intuitive services, guided meditations, presentations & interactive workshops based on her "Intuition Into Action Treasure Map: 5 Steps to a Happy Healthy Life". Her art is as much about the creative process as the final results, reflecting the dance of Spirit within Nature and the Self - energies that connect, transform and empower. Dominique was godmother of the 2018 Atlantic Visual Arts Festival (NB) and winner of a 2019 NL Arts & Letters Award for her painting "Every Dot a Prayer". Learn more at www.DominiqueHurley.com
Drew Hogan is an interdisciplinary artist from Newfoundland and is currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at Memorial University (Grenfell Campus).
Ed Ackerman is an animator who explores cinematic language using the materials he finds close at hand: plasticine, photocopiers, 5-year old children let loose in a village with disposable cameras and, most famously, typewriters. He was born in Winnipeg and after a year at Ryerson;s film school, returned home and made two collaborative films with Greg Zbitnew: “5 Cents a Copy” and “Sarah’s Dream.” He has since lived in Montreal, Toronto and rural Ontario. He went on to make films for Sesame Street, IMAX, the National Film Board of Canada, the CBC and public service announcements for US television featuring “Smokey the Bear.”
Colin Morton is an award-winning writer and poet based in Ottawa. Primiti Too Taa, part of his 1987 poetry series on the German artist Kurt Schwitters, is based on a much longer sound poem created by Schwitters in the 1920s. During the 1980s, Morton toured Canada extensively with the Ottawa performance group First Draft, often performing Primiti Too Taa for appreciative, if astonished, audiences. Morton's series on Schwitters, including a performance score for Primiti Too Taa, was re-released in 2007 in his book The Cabbage of Paradise.
Erienne Rennick: I am a multidisciplinary, neurodivergent artist with an interest in psychology, creating works to toy with a participant’s senses through playful and hypnotizing experiences. I was raised in Baden, Ontario and completed my BA at the University of Waterloo in 2018. I am currently living in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and am in the second year of my Master of Fine Arts degree at Grenfell, MUN.
Eva Cvijanovic is a filmmaker and animator born in Sarajevo and based in Montreal. Her most recent film, Hedgehog’s Home (a NFB and Bonobostudio coproduction) premiered at the 2017 Berlinale and has since been screened and awarded internationally.
Covering a wide range of techniques, Cvijanovic employs animation for its power to transmit visceral experiences and to create playgrounds for herself and her collaborators.
She is currently exploring game-engine technology to find a more fluid and collaborative approach to independent animation production and keeping busy as a founding member of the Astroplastique collective
Georgia Dawkin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with a wide range of media from printmaking and painting to photography, installation, video and performance. Originally from British Columbia, her art practice began and developed in Newfoundland where she is currently in her final semester of her BFA at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. Dawkin has previously shown in group exhibitions at the Tina Dolter Gallery (NL), and had her first solo exhibition at the rOGUE Gallery at Eastern Edge (NL) in 2020. Her work commonly uses text, humour, character, and absurdity to investigate and reflect on her place and voice in our patriarchal, capitalist, contemporary North American society
Jaime Black is a multidisciplinary artist of mixed Anishinaabe and European descent. Black's art practice engages in themes of memory, identity, place and resistance and is grounded in an understanding of the body and the land as sources of cultural and spiritual knowledge.
Jerry Evans was born in the central Newfoundland town of Grand Falls in 1961. He holds a diploma in commercial art from the St. John's College of Trades and Technology (1980) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1986) and a Bachelor of Education from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (1992).
Kristin Snowbird is an artist and emerging filmmaker of Cree/Ojibwe descent from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her first film "Sweat" was created through the Mosaic Women’s Film Project at the Winnipeg Film Group. She is interested in art to share her stories and to build bridges for understanding Indigenous culture, traditions, historical points of view and personal trauma.
Leslie Supnet is a moving image artist who utilizes animation, found media, and experimental practices on film and video. Her work has shown internationally at film festivals, galleries and microcinemas including TIFF (Short Cuts Canada), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Melbourne International Animation Festival, Experimenta India, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, WNDX, Edge of Frame/Animate Projects, and many others. She has been commissioned by Reel Asian, Pleasure Dome / Art Spin, the8fest, Cineworks, and Film Pop! (Pop Montreal). Leslie has an MFA from York University and teaches analog and digital animation at various artist-run centres, not-for-profits and for the Faculty of Art and Continuing Studies at OCAD University.
Maria Simmons is a hybrid artist from Hamilton, ON. She investigates potentialized environments through the creation of multidisciplinary sculpture and video installation, exploring themes of contamination-as-collaboration. She engages with material intra-activity by introducing organisms and matter which have the potential to physically affect and transform each other: plants and fungi, organic matter such as soil and compost, along with chemicals and plastics. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo and a BFA from McMaster University. She has recently exhibited at The Plumb, Platform, Ed Video Media Art Centre, and the Hamilton Artist Inc.
Meganelizabeth Diamond is a multidisciplinary artist, programmer and facilitator based in rural Manitoba on Treaty 1. Using photography, collage and moving images she explores our relationships to domestic spaces and the natural world. Often juxtaposing the real with the artificial - playing with the boundary of fact and fiction. Her work has shown at artist-run centres and festivals internationally. Most recently, she was a New Media Artist in Residence at Video Pool Media Arts Centre (2019-2020). Diamond facilitates workshops exploring a wide variety of photo-developing techniques (both analog and digital). She is the Artistic Director at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts and is the Director of the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival.
Mike Maryniuk was born in Winnipeg, but raised in the rural back country of Manitoba. A completely self-taught film virtuoso, Maryniuk’s film world is an inventive hybrid of Jim Henson, Norman McLaren and Stan Brakhage. Maryniuk’s films are a visual stew of hand-made ingredients and are full of home cooked wonderfulness.
Mimi Stockland is a St. John’s-based visual artist whose work merges textiles, sculpture, printmaking and installation. She obtained a BFA from Concordia University in 2009, and graduated from the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal (CTCM) in 2015. She recently gravitated back to film and animation work after a hiatus, working in a blend of hand-drawn and digital processes, video collage and stop-motion techniques.
Mimi’s video work was screened in the 2021 edition of Cinesthesia, a joint project of the Nickel Film Festival and Sound Symposium. Her installation work ‘Elephant Island’ was recently exhibited in Give Me Shelter, a survey exhibition of emerging St. John’s visual artists at the CCA (Charlottetown, PEI) and Galerie d'art-Louise-et-Reuben Cohen in Université de Moncton, NB
Monica Lacey is a multidisciplinary artist driven by curiosity, service to her community, and the pursuit of beauty in all its forms. She has received several grants and awards for excellence in her work, and her artwork is in public and private collections across North America. She lives and works in Epekwitk/PEI on unceded Mi'kmaq territory.
Currently based in Montreal, Navarana Tretina is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker working in short gauge film, video, painting, printmaking and dance. Igloliorte often works in collaboration with community members or other artists, weaving together teachings, stories, movement and sometimes humour through reflection of our connectedness with nature and each other. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2003 and a Bachelor of Education degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2005. Since 2004, Igloliorte has frequently traveled back to Labrador where she grew up to work for the Nunatsiavut Government and Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation. Igloliorte's artwork and films have been exhibited and screened in galleries and film festivals across Canada.
Rachel Samson is an animation artist born in Quebec City, now living in Montreal. A BFA graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (19), Rachel is interested in traditional, digital and under-camera video practices as well as screenwriting and just drawing in general.
Born in Toronto, Risa Horowitz is based in Regina, Saskatchewan where she is associate professor in the department of visual arts at the University of Regina. Her work includes photography, video, painting, drawing, performance, electronics, installation, and writing. Horowitz has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and several provincial funding bodies. Her works are in the public collections of Global Affairs Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and in private and corporate collections. In 2020, Horowitz represented Canadian women artists in A New Light, an exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC (where one of her arctic works is on permanent display) that included several paintings from her Trees of Canada series. In 2021 she was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Horowitz's practice blurs boundaries between expert-amateur, hobby-work, and leisure productivity. Much of her work involves collecting and durational practices that pay attention to time and its presentation.
Shan Leigh Pomeroy (she/they) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and designer currently based out of Newfoundland. She graduated from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History and is currently working toward a diploma in Graphic Design at CNA.
Shan's creative interests incorporate archival imagery and documentation, gender, anatomy, geography, kitsch, as well as the contrast of media and style. Their artistic output deals heavily with body politics and the human relationship to health and space, employing tongue-in-cheek methods and clever juxtaposition to communicate these themes effectively.
Since 2007, Shan has won awards and contributed written and visual projects to several art exhibitions, markets, and publications in Newfoundland, Hong Kong, Italy, and Quebec under the profile SHANMADE.
Shan has received several rounds of grant funding from the City of St. John's and from ArtsNL to aid in the creation of a number independent series and projects. They continue to actively participate in the Newfoundland creative arts milieu.
Shan currently lives and works in Georgestown with their partner and two cats, Goon and Blue.
Shauna Oddleifson’s work is subversive in nature, containing deranged visuals and a schizophrenic sense of humour, appropriating from our childhood desires and patterns of thought. Her work affixes a subtext narrative to a common object or idea in order to provoke a societal response.Her conceptual and creative practice centres on the character of the little girl, and her growth through living in the world with other people and creatures and environments.
Shauna Oddleifson graduated from UBC Okanagan (previously OUC) in 1998 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, graduating with distinction. Since graduating, she has been involved with the arts community in Kelowna working in galleries as well as volunteering with various arts organizations and special events. Shauna has a studio practice, both art and craft-based, and has exhibited work throughout the Okanagan as well as in various artist run centres and galleries across Canada.
Joanne Gervais' work looks at the role memory plays in the formation of identity and how the arrangement of imagery, video, sound and motion can be used to depict the non-linear nature of nostalgia and its capacity to imaginatively restructure past narratives. Her work often references and suggests alternative perceptions of these narratives.
Joanne Gervais is an interdisciplinary artist based in Kelowna BC.Her practice ranges from documentaries, promotional videos, and performance collaborations to print, drawing and design. Joanne holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC where she now works.
The collaboration of these artists has led to two animations and installations of works based on their intersecting interest in nostalgia, and their desire to combine their different mediums as a means of further investigating the impact of memory and imagination. They are interested in a personification of animals and with the idea of having a central character of a little girl character expanding her outlook to become more aware of what is in the world around her.
Tamar Zehava Tabori is an emerging dance and film artist, currently residing on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples; the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. She has been involved in various interdisciplinary dance productions across Canada, performing on stage and on screen, and has received commissions for both production and instruction roles. Tamar's experimental short films weave together convergent streams of arts and media in the realization of cohesive performances; these films have screened at over 15 festivals worldwide. She was selected to take part in a collaborative WebXR mentorship project guided by Kiran Bhumber and Nancy Lee, and continues to expand her skillset using softwares such as Spoke by Mozilla, Apple Motion, TouchDesigner, and Blender. She is currently the Associate Artist for Company 605, and Associate Artistic Director at F-O-R-M. She maintains an active engagement with the dance community, locally, nationally, and internationally, using digital platforms as sites of creative exchange and connectivity.