I'm posting another video piece I worked on over the last couple weeks.  Another mashup of sorts...fusing Flash Gordon, Buffy St. Marie, Sharks, Lions, Thunderbirds and Eagles.  My friend Darwin Frost made the Audio for it.  He was back in New York when I started working on it.  I was sending him a message to see if he was safe from Hurricane Sandy, and while I was writing it he sent me a letter to see if I was safe from the Earthquake that happened off the coast of Haida Gwaii.  I was already working w some of this footage and thought it fit like a glove.  The dancing figure in the video is a a depiction of the Thunderbird who is a figure that connects to thunderclaps, lightning and earthquakes. 

I installed this video along with Sala = Patience and another video called Salish Seas Rythm last November 10th and again on the 17th at the W2 Community Media Arts Centre.

Below are some visual documents of that.  The photos were taken by Joffrey Middleton Hope www.joffrey.ca 

Wuulhu - Installation - Woodwards Atrium - W2 - Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival

Live-Visuals from Trickster

Live Audio Visual Performance w Skookum Sound System - w Impossible Nothing - Biochemical

Live Audio Visual Performance w Skookum Sound System - w DJ Deano and Csetkwe - Alligator Tears

Csetkwe sings Alligator Tears

Deano w the H'lulu drum

I am still working with the video footage from the installation and performance on the 10th.  Below is a poster I designed for the installation and performance.  It was the first time I have had access to so many projectors...I think 10 in total.  I have wanted to transform public spaces with big projections for a while now and this felt like my first real taste of it.  I've been thinking about "projection bombing" and intervention performance using projections.  Still need to conduct some more technical research, but would like to approach that in the new year.

Sala = Patience is still in a fine color correction edit.  I have been looking at changing the "ending", but I haven't come up with an idea that I feel works for the piece.  I still like the idea of the surreal "otherworld" being revealed as the everyday.  There isn't much I feel like I can do with my current footage to alter it, so I will have to figure out a new way to execute it.  I like being in this place between though.  I feel like this is integral to the production. Patience and pondering.

Installation and Catchup

Back to posting here.  I've attached a few images from my Residency in Regina w the Sakewewak Collective and the Mackenzie Art Gallery.  It's been interesting getting back into the school swing of things.  I have also landed down into another mini-residency at the W2 for the Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival.  I will be installing digital installations and performing with Skookum Sound System on the night of the 10th.  I have been spending most (meaning all) of my time getting ready for this.  Hoping life will return to the chaos I am used to after the 11th.  I have also spent considerable time on my artist statement for my Sala video.  I am going to re-work the ending, but will need to setup another photo shoot to shoot it.  I also I working on the visual ideas for a more satisfying conclusion.

I've been working on a lot of video mashups for our next show....I am attaching the link to the "Father" video I made.  It's a rough mix I did over a few days.  Chopping up footage from Return of the Jedi and  Empire Strikes back.....lot of rendering time.  I posted it up on the day Disney bought the star wars franchise....noticed an influx of star wars memes and mashups the day I posted.  In my opinion Disney can't do much worse than some of the newer Star Wars efforts.  I like the originals.  Nice metaphors on the machine-like qualities of political power and the fight to retain a good spirit even though the darkside has a strong pull.

The paintings are more like studies for me.  They are pretty small in size.  The circle is part of my daily practice.  I like to warmup before I draw by making circles for 5 or 10 minutes....both clockwise and counter clockwise.  I've taken that into my paintings as well.  Trying to make a nice circle without a stencil or compass.  The other painting is a self-portrait.  It's based on my first night in Regina.  It was dark, windy, snowing and the only thing I could see that was open was a Mcdonalds.  Fortunately My trip went a lot better after that first cold night.  The bottom picture is of a couple of the youth (sisters) I workshopped with, practicing before the exhibition.  They were really adept at handling the interactive part of the live-visual thing and a lot of the youth taught me some new tricks in my program and also taking a more experimental approach in the performance with it.