Join us for an evening of expanded cinema and experimental performance by Toronto’s Colby Richardson, Winnipeg’s Scott Fitzpatrick and local artists I-Ying Wu & Jon Vaughn. Spectra is the first in a series of events exploring expanded cinema and experimental performance in the RPL Film Theatre. Pairing travelling artists with locals, the events will provide audiences the opportunity to engage with rare and fascinating art forms and practices that push boundaries, illuminating their vast potential.
7pm doors / 7:30 performances / Free Admission
Colby Richardson is a media artist, experimental filmmaker and sound artist currently based in Toronto ON, Canada. Driven by a fascination with underused media technologies and by the way we interact with and value the technology at our disposal, Richardson’s work examines the artistic capabilities of tools and devices often unconsidered and dismissed. By utilizing and re-contextualising historic video equipment, everyday software, and ubiquitous electronics, Richardson creates dynamic and textural visual and auditory works, taking the form of; installations, performances, video-sculptures, expanded cinema, and single-channel film and video. His work embraces chaos and jarring stimulus, and engages with unconventional medium-specificity in a playful, structural, and exploratory manner.
Colby has exhibited and screened work across Canada and internationally including Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Videofag (Toronto, ON), Antimatter (Victoria, BC), WNDX (Winnipeg, MB), Artists Television Access (San Francisco, CA), Studio Kura (Itoshima, Japan), Flatpack Film Festival (Birmingham, UK), International Video Art Festival Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and at the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, Germany). His work has been featured in publications including Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and Black Flash.
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Scott Fitzpatrick is a media artist, technician and arts programmer from Winnipeg, MB. His work engages film and video, sound, collage, photography and performance. He's a founder of the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival and a former artistic director of the WNDX Festival of Moving Image. Since 2020 he's done tech work as part of Collective Broadcast Co. He lives in West Broadway with his cats Batty and Wizard.
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I-Ying Wu is a somatic and improvisation practitioner as well as researcher connected to international networks in artistic and academic circles in Taiwan, UK, and Canada. She was awarded her MA from the National Taiwan University of the Arts in 2006 and a PhD in the performing arts from the University of Northampton, UK in 2014. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Improvisation Studies Centre based in the Faculty of Media, Art and Performance, University of Regina during 2016-2017. Her research on improvisation began from her Masters project that investigated the history of dance improvisation and the cultural meaning of Contact Improvisation within the sociocultural context of Taiwan. Her doctoral thesis, Being Formless: A Daoist Movement Practice, employs practice-as-research methodology to explore the ambiguity of the unknown as characterised in Daoism, how Daoist perspectives on qi-energy are manifest through in-between states of being and the transformation of the self. During her PhD, she developed, based on a Daoist perspective of qi, a somatic movement practice that relies on improvised movement as a pathway towards understanding the Dao (Way). Building on this, her postdoctoral project rethinks the concept of improvisation from a Daoist perspective in order to fill a gap between Western concepts and those from her own cultural perspective and embodied experience of qi.
Through a series of heart/mind “detachment” in her creative process resonating with her embodied experience of Daoist meditative practices, she holds that improvisation is not a form of art but rather is something within our being, a subtle reaction to the self and surroundings, which needs to be rigorously trained to dwell within our heart/mind so that we may experience, realise, and understand.
I-Ying has organized and participated in many independent and collaborative projects in creative, multi-disciplinary, and multi-cultural environments. Currently, she is involved in teaching, performing, and undertaking artistic research as an independent artist in Regina, SK, and maintains ties with the Regina Improvisation Studies Centre (RISC) and the International Institute for Critical Studies of Improvisation (IICSI).
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Jon Vaughn (they/he) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, independent publisher, and experimental musician living in Regina, SK. They have collaborated with artists such as Tim Olive, Âmes Sanglantes, Toshimaru Nakamura, Scant Intone and others and worked with labels such as Magnetic Domain, No Type, Panospria and Oral, Flish, Slapart, and Krakilsk. Vaughn has opened for artists such as Merzbow and The Thing and performed at such festivals as Mutek, send + receive, Vancouver New Music Festival, RE:FLUX, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Rien A Voir, Sight + Sound, and Akousma.
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