THAT'S A WRAP!

THANK-YOU EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT AND SUPPORTED PLATFORM THIS PAST SATURDAY NIGHT @ OUR 8 x 10 RAFFLE / AUCTION PARTY!!

8 x 10 2012 was a HUGE success!

We are so thankful to all of the contributing artists whose work was raffled and auctioned at our event this year. 

 PLATFORM 8 x 10 2012 FUNDRAISING SPONSORS INCLUDE:

The Loft Gastropub

Peasant Cookery

Designtype

Fleet Galleries

The Labworks

Photo Central

and 

Chris Krawchenko / Maximum Realty

The PLATFORM Fundraising Committee and Volunteers include:

Karen Asher / Brenda Stuart / Duncan McNairnay / Erika MacPherson / Mandy Malazdrewich / Talia Potash / Dave Grywinski / Sarah Crawley / Derek Dunlop / Collin Zipp / Kegan McFadden / Divya Mehra /  Mark Olson / Anna Weir / Heidi Malazdrewich / Kevin Doole

***  If you have yet to claim the work you won, please note the PLATFORM office will be open from Tuesday through Friday this week, 12noon to 5PM, and by appointment.***


PLATFORM will be closed for the holidays from the 22nd of December 2012 until the 14th of January 2013.

8 x 10 FUNDRAISER + PARTY!!

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 Three Additional Photographs up for BIDDING as part of the 8 x 10 hoopla:

William Eakin,
24Hours (2012)
archival inkjet print
24" x 24" 

David McMillan 
Kindergarten Hallway, Pripyat (2012)
c-print 
24" x 30"

Lisa Stinner-Kun
untitled [Spike] (2012)
archival inkjet print
30" x 40"
  

Advance bids may be emailed to the Gallery and are accepted up til 5PM the 15th of December. 

 

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Our 2 Gift Draw Items are in!

Courtesy of Chris Krawchenko of Maximum Realty, you could win this Mastercraft 10" Table Saw with Heavy Duty Steel Stand. Or you could win this Pentax X-5 Digital Camera, courtesy of Photo Central. 

Tickets available the night of the fundraiser.

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SATURDAY 15 DECEMBER 2012

from 7-Midnight:

 

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
@ PLATFORM

$45 each

ONLY 100 AVAILABLE! 






Fundraiser: ART DRAW + PARTY @ PLATFORM
Mistress + Master of Ceremonies: Divya Mehra + J. J. Kegan McFadden.
music by DJ J JACKSON
Proceeds to support the programming and outreach @ PLATFORM


Participating Artists Include:

KAREN ASHER
C. GRAHAM ASMUNDSON
IAN AUGUST
LISE BEAUDRY
SCOTT BENESIINAABANDAN
DEREK BRUECKNER
STEVEN LEYDEN COCHRANE
SARAH CRAWLEY
DEREK DUNLOP
ERIKA DEFREITAS
CLIFF EYLAND
LORI FONTAINE
DENTON FREDERICKSON
ASHLEY GILLANDERS
LARRY GLAWSON
NOAM GONICK
DAVE GRYWINSKI
ANDREW HARWOOD
RICHARD HINES
ERIC LESAGE
JEN LOEWEN
ROBERT LOWE
KEVIN MCKENZIE
GUY MADDIN
MANDY MALAZREWICH
DUNCAN MCNAIRNAY
KEGAN MCFADDEN
ERIKA MACPHERSON
DIVYA MEHRA
DAVID MILLER
ANDREW MILNE
FREYA BJORG OLAFSON
SUSY OLIVEIRA
DEMETRA PENNER
TRACY PETERS
NATASHA PETERSON
HEIDI PHILLIPS
TALIA POTASH
PRZEMEK PYSZCZEK
DOMINIQUE REY
PAUL ROBLES
JON SASAKI
THEO SIMS
SUZIE SMITH
ADRIAN A STIMSON
BRENDA STUART
DIANA THORNEYCROFT
SUSAN TURNER
COLLIN ZIPP
AND  MORE...

Silent Auction Featuring Work by:

WILLIAM EAKIN \ LISA STINNER-KUN \ DAVID MCMILLAN

EVERY TICKET GUARANTEES AN ARTWORK.
ONLY 100 TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE.
CORRESPONDING NUMBERS TO TICKETS WILL BE DRAWN AT RANDOM ON DECEMBER 15TH, 2012
WHEN YOUR NUMBER IS DRAWN, YOU ARE ENTITLED TO SELECT A WORK FROM THE WALL.

TICKETS: $45 @ PLATFORM
DOORS @ 7PM
DRAW STARTS @ 7:30PM

Additional 8 x 10 sponsors include: 
The Loft Gastropub; Peasant Cookerie; The LabWorks; & Fleet Galleries.

Cheryl Sourkes continues until 8 December 2012

 For Immediate Release


Exhibition
    02 November - 08 December 2012

Artist Talk
    01 November @ 12PM, School of Art, University of Manitoba | ARTlab 364

Opening Reception
   Friday 02 November    7PM


  CHERYL SOURKES

             

*Best*Amateur*Webcams*

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the solo exhibition, *Best*Amateur*Webcams*, by Toronto-based artist Cheryl Sourkes.

Featuring a new interactive data projection and a selection of digital prints,  *Best*Amateur*Webcams* is the final exhibition in PLATFORM's thematic year where the Centre has presented research stemming from the idea of the palimpsest. This research has attempted to correlate the ancient palimpsest (ie: re-writable history) as a contemporary metaphor for photographic practices.

Sourkes' exhibition explores weighty topics such as voyeurism, connectivity, and the ongoing power-dynamics in image taking  / broadcasting. Her art practice draws on the webcam-o-sphere for inspiration and for material. Over the past decade, webcams have changed from an obscure feature of computer hardware to standard equipment. These cameras provide access to formerly inaccessible or else neglected sites and subjects. Their presence on the Internet clocks quotidian reality and more nearly mirrors everyday life than does any other visual modality. Sourkes re/presents imagery generated by these cameras, while considering their theoretical implications. On the technical level, her production investigates the possibilities of low-resolution images. Typically low-res signals immediacy and urgency. It references Internet communication. Webcams along with cell phones and other wireless mobile devices operate in an ever-expanding zone of distributed consciousness. So on the level of technique, as well as on the level of content, webcam-generated material enacts a noteworthy paradigm shift taking place in visual culture.

Artist Statement

    Webcams automatically produce viral images that disseminate widely at great speed; their output however is completely fugitive. As each manifestation is quickly replaced by the next, these photographs disappear almost as soon as they come into existence. Webcam images are virtual refuse that participate in economies of the discard. They are portals to inaccessible places. Gathered together however, webcam photographs constitute a portrait of contemporary culture, one that interrogates the more readily available, popular media versions. The images in this exhibition have been culled from personal webcams. They show computer and television screens, people sleeping, gamers in Internet cafes, etc. This work embodies absence, delay, substitution, deferral, displacement, distribution, dissociation, dissolution, that sort of thing. 



As part of our commitment to critical discourse,  PLATFORM has commissioned a new text by award-winning poet, Rachel Zolf,  to accompany this exhibition. This response takes the form of a one-act play, however the allusions and illusions to online chatter are unmistakable.

PLATFORM is very pleased to be partnering with community organizations, including the Martha Street Studio / Manitoba Printmakers Association, who is hosting Sourkes in a brief residency where she will print new work for her exhibition at PLATFORM; as well as the University of Manitoba School of Art, who are hosting an artist lecture by Sourkes prior to the exhibition opening.

Please join us for the opening reception Friday 02 November beginning at 7PM.  Refreshments will be served.


For more information about this exhibition, please contact the Centre directly:
PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org


Bios:

Veteran of the Canadian art world, Cheryl Sourkes grew up in Montreal and studied psychology and biology at McGill University before moving to Vancouver in 1967 where she became involved with Intermedia, a Dadaist collective that helped spawn the Canadian artist run movement. Following a spell back in Montreal in the late eighties, Sourkes has lived and worked in Toronto where she has been on several boards, curated a not-for-profit gallery and edited visuals for a feminist literary journal. Her exhibition of sampled web cameras, Public Camera recently toured the country stopping for a run at The National Gallery of Canada.In 1996, Sourkes acted as curator for the touring exhibition, Found Missing: Archival photographs and the new historicity, which PLATFORM presented (then known as The Floating Gallery). http://www.cherylsourkes.com/

Rachel Zolf’s writing practice explores interrelated materialist questions concerning memory, history, knowledge, subjectivity, and the conceptual limits of language and meaning. Her fourth book of poetry is Neighbour Procedure (Coach House, 2010). Human Resources (Coach House, 2007) won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She was the founding poetry editor of The Walrus magazine, and her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, and video art form. Zolf recently wrote the screenplay for New York artist Josiah McElheny’s film, The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women’s Picture, which will premiere at Art Basel Miami Beach this December. She is an assistant professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. She is also a PhD Student at the European Graduate School, under the supervision of Judith Butler. Here is how Butler supervises Zolf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C50MjBN7a5A

PLATFORM wishes to thank Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, and W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation for their continued support of our programming; as well as our colleagues at Martha Street Studio, and  University of Manitoba School of Art, in addition to the following individuals for their assistance in this project:  Shawna Dempsey,  Larry Glawson, Mary Reid, and Dominique Rey for their sponsorship and assistance with this exhibition.