Portrait of Lee Ann Martin, 2019 #GGARTS winner Canada Council for the Arts 2026-09-25 | Portrait of Lee Ann Martin, 2019 #GGARTS winner
Virtual tour of the Canada Council Art Bank CanadaCouncil 2023-05-11 | The Canada Council Art Bank makes contemporary artwork available to a wide public across the country through its Art Rental and Exhibitions and Outreach programs, including loans. We invite you to participate in a virtual tour of the collection and storage facility. If you would like to see more, browse the collection at artbank.ca. Subscribe to the Art Bank Bulletin to learn about our upcoming outreach activities!For more information, visit: artbank.ca
Portrait of Nettie Wild, #GGArts2023 winner CanadaCouncil 2023-03-28 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Nettie Wild is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Video directed by Hân Phạm and Dave Rodden-Shortt.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: I wish somebody had told me early on how important not knowing was. It’s so scary in all aspects of life and art included that you take that leap into the unknown. I love chasing light. That’s what I do: I chase light.My family has had a huge influence on my work. My father was a foreign correspondent. We had this amazing relationship, and he infused in me a huge curiosity in the world. I think it was in the middle of the production of _A Rustling of Leaves._ I got pulled into a story I was in no way prepared for. I came from the Martini belt of West Vancouver, and I ended up in the mountains with barefoot gun-toting guerrilla communist soldiers. It wasn’t like I had some kind of a crazy yearning to get shot at.Maybe it was opening night when I realized we had captured a moment in time that was unique. And I thought, ‘Yeah, I’m a filmmaker.’ For me, filmmaking is the art of collaborating. Right from the very beginning, myself and my fabulous crews, were really trying to push the envelope of cinematic language. Whether you’re dealing with a village in the Philippines, or in Chiapas, Mexico, or in northern Canada, or in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, it’s not about trying to land in the middle of the conflict. That’s not what it’s about. It’s following that complex story, embracing those contradictions. And guess what? I’ve been doing that since the very first film.People are surprised at the evolution that I have gone through moving to art installations. That word, ‘evolution,’ is key. It’s about that whole thing of taking risks and surprising yourself. And if you can surprise yourselves by framing the familiar in an unfamiliar way, you stand half a chance of surprising your audience. In that ‘Holy!’ In that moment when people say ‘I’ve never seen something framed that way before,’ you’ve got them.We’re using art to pull people into that conversation. And that’s gold.There’s a wonderful old saying: “In life—and, I would argue, in art—you have to repeatedly take risks by leaping off into the unknown. On your way down, you build your wings.
Portrait of Germaine Koh, #GGArts2023 winner CanadaCouncil 2023-03-28 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Germaine Koh is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Video directed by Kyle Armstrong.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: My work as an artist is about putting ideas out into the world. The word ‘art’ is more often a stumbling block or barrier or kind of like… not useful. [laugh]A lot of my work exists outside of gallery spaces. People go to art galleries for contemplation and so on. What I want to do is focus on the behaviours that happen in the world at large.I’m always looking for the patterns that shape any kind of place, not only how people behave, what kinds of communities use the space, but also the kinds of systems that underlie it that we don’t necessarily pay attention to always in our daily lives. The kinds of behaviours that we engage in every day that end up structuring our lives and our interactions with other people, so a lot of my work is having to do with trying to find the patterns that cross in any particular space or situation. The general public has a capacity to look at things and bring all of their creative faculties and have conversations with both the work and with their fellow citizens about interesting ideas. For sure, my work is multidisciplinary and tends to take very different forms and make use of and even delve into different kinds of systems and modes of operating, to such an extent that I have started to describe my work as being a lot about translating different realms to each other. You might be in a situation before you actually realize it. For example, when I built a bench that looks like a bench in the transit shelters, but it was actually a teeter-totter. It’s kind of like a recognizable situation. People are approaching the situation with certain kinds of expectations and then, all of a sudden, the conditions have been shifted in a way that hopefully creates an interesting conundrum for them and the people around them.I would like my work to be part of that social mesh that we all share, and a lot of my work is trying to pay attention to and celebrate the kinds of things that we have in common, rather than the things that divide us.
Portrait of FASTWÜRMS, #GGArts2023 winner CanadaCouncil 2023-03-28 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. FASTWÜRMS is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Video directed by Priscilla Galvez et Jeff Pavlopoulos.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: Formed in 1979, the artist FASTWÜRMS is a joint authorship, the trademark of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse. FASTWÜRMS is a witch queer epistemology. We make art as the feral code to knowledge and wisdom. Reimagining the future as a commonwealth of boundless diversity and poetic cosmology. We expand fields. We build worlds and utopias and make working models of new ways of being in the world.FASTWÜRMS is a positivity economy. We conflate ecological and libidinal economies. We build social making models. We create proliferation prototypes of mutualism, reciprocity and generosity. FASTWÜRMS is as a liberation narrative. We have a ‘Can’t stop, won’t stop’ compulsion to exceed boundaries and limitations, to build a bountiful, beautiful, polymorphous and poly-cultural Avalon. We live and work in the territory of Treaty 18, in an old farmhouse with many outbuildings with our family of eight feral rescue cats next to a swamp and a moon pond surrounded by wild fields and transplanted trees.Right now, we are creating work for our project, _Volcano Lover,_ tufting textiles, firing Raku ceramics and painting pyroclastic watercolours that tell the story of queer volcanology—a geo-queer liberation narrative. _Volcano Lover_ conflates maximalist aesthetics and queer futurity with the world-building profusion and procreative power of the volcano. We are making the seismic data of sustainable love.FASTWÜRMS’ ethos is determined by the witch ethics algorithm: Do what you want. Harm unto none. Love is the law.
Portrait of David Garneau, #GGArts2023 winner CanadaCouncil 2023-03-28 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. David Garneau is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Video directed by Aaron Zeghers.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: It would be the mid-1970s, and I was in high school. I saw an article on Joe Fafard, and I really liked his work. I liked that he lived on the Prairies, and I decided I was going to be Joe Fafard.I wanted to be a sculptor, at first. I had my first solo show in 1980, when I was about 18 years old. A reporter came in and interviewed me and said something to the effect that I was Métis, and I was like, “What?” I’d never heard that word before.Look around you, this is a Native gallery.I was surprised. Because it was just the kind of art that I was interested in, and it was a gallery in the neighbourhood.So my trajectory was shaky at the beginning. I was always interested art. I was making these sculptures. I was making strange mobiles. My mum painted and was a wonderful painter, and I didn’t want to be stepping on her toes and try to do something she was doing. But eventually, that’s where I had to go.I met my partner, Sylvia Ziemann, who is also an artist, in art school. Went out to Nova Scotia for a while. The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. I got introduced to theory, and it just blew my mind. Going out there and seeing the kind of idea-driven work… there was no going back.The idea of getting ideas into art, and then writing about the larger field of art-making and curation. Something that I became really interested in. I’ve decided to be a painter primarily. I’ve decided to work in realism. I’m full of ideas around Métis identity. Being Indigenous in the academy. Indigenous ways of knowing and being.I’m trying to get that all in a still life painting. And if I’m not able to realize the idea in a painting, then I can work on writing, sculpting something for a video or a performance. It’s just this restless energy that motivates me more than anything else.The fate of writers and thinkers is that when their ideas are understood and absorbed, they sort of fade away.And the idea is the thing... that’s way more important. I’d rather have changed somebody’s mind than have them pay attention to me. I don’t like attention. I don’t like public speaking. I don’t like... this! I don’t like being recorded on camera, I can’t stand it.I’d rather be known for a good turn of phrase that changes your mind, or a picture that helps summarize some of your thoughts and feelings. A lot of people know me by my writing, but I've never published my own book. Those people tend not to know me as a painter, and the ones who know me as a painter may not know my work as a curator.I think what this award does is [it] focusses people’s attentions on myriad aspects of what I have done. And to be heard on these multiple levels has just been the great privilege of my life.
Portrait of Grace Nickel, #GGArts2023 winner CanadaCouncil 2023-03-28 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Grace Nickel is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Video directed by Jody Racicot and Aaron Adetuyi.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: That’s a really good way for me of memorializing, somehow taking what’s lost into my work.Using the tree as source material because it eventually became a stand-in for so much.The body, for instance. The kind of strange growths thatoccur on trees. Burls or galls… it’s a really rich metaphor, still.It all kind of goes into a big, big basket in my brain. I take a personal lens to start sorting that out. Picking and choosing what is going to inform the clay works.This is my interpretation. I let these go to communicate with an audience. The work isn’t really finished until somebody sees it and engages with it.
Portrait of Evergon, #GGArts2023 winner CanadaCouncil 2023-03-28 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Evergon is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Video directed by Pixie Cram.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: So, we’re laying out the next show, which is all going to be Manscapes and Toilets. But if something happens, like a light flare, to me that’s fine. It’s not a flaw. It becomes part of the film. I sometimes laugh about ‘the fairies arrived.’ Or there’s a sense that there’s a magical moment, rather than a historical moment. From a very early point, I felt that photos were fiction. And much of what I do is tell stories or fictions.I was in love with this film, which is no longer made, by Polaroid, and I travelled the world with the cameras that made these images. So, the Polaroid works—the large ones, and even the 20 by 24s—I was privileged to get access to those cameras. It was a play. It’s adults playing. People got into it. I mean, even from the lecture, there were 33 people who wanted to take their clothes off and be a Ramboy or a Rambette. I mean, I have the reputation of being Canada’s bad boy of photography, which was given to me many, many years ago and I delighted. So, you’ve been warned. You may not be offended by some of this work. Because the viewer is not neutral. They bring their luggage. Every morning at breakfast, we’d talk, and she’d say, “You know, you haven’t made the photos yet. You know, you haven’t made them.” She’s the commissionaire of those works. My mother would never get on a hobby horse and ride it with a cowboy hat. That’s not my mom. But it is my mom in the sense that she had a sense of play. Her ‘stoic-ness’ is there. There are parts of her. But again, the photograph is not reality.
Portrait of Shannon Walsh, #GGArts2023 winner CanadaCouncil 2023-03-28 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Shannon Walsh is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Video directed by Rami Katz.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: For me, the exciting thing about documentary is that it‘s not just a technical endeavour, it’s one of being a human in the world. You’re working with real people and their lives, and you’re carrying them through a journey.What is the role that you’re meant to play to help bring that story to light and help broaden empathy and the way that people may perceive the world around them?I started making films when I was in high school. I remember still sitting in the library in London, Ontario, watching Godard films on VHS tapes and making copious notes about the French New Wave, and I was really interested in filmmaking as an art form from a young age.Documentary really emerged out of my activism. I was already working in visual mediums, but I was also more and more involved in social movements. And so, I was picking up a camera to tell those stories that were happening right around me that felt really urgent.I think the job of the director… it’s of course, things like creating the visual language, the beats of the story, what are the parameters of the story, but it’s also really about what happens behind the camera. This constant ethical engagement, and that begins when you first start asking the question, “Am I the right person to tell this story? How do I think about responsibility? How can we shape the stories in such a way can really feel powerful and give dignity and respect to the people that have shared their lives with us?” Those are questions that are often on my mind.I think documentary these days gives us so many opportunities to be creative and to experiment. The artistic directions, formally and stylistically, within documentary have always been really interesting to me. But it’s always paired also with an idea of wanting to make change in the world and thinking, “How can films make impact?”I’ve often thought that it’s my body of work overall where you’ll see who I am. They reflect periods of my life, my own curiosities and journeys that I’ve taken.I think we ask of our stories and the stories we tell to give something powerful to the world. And I hope that I’m able to bring that into the films that I make.
Portrait of Tim Whiten, #GGArts2023 winner CanadaCouncil 2023-03-28 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Tim Whiten is a 2023 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Video directed by Raghed Charabaty.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: Hi, I’m Tim Whiten.What I make, I consider to be cultural objects. The work that I do comes from ‘awarenesses’ from my everyday experiences.A lot of those are things which I feel that I’d like to share with other people,that may have certain insights that would be useful to other people.Or they may have interesting notions that probably provide nuances about the nature of how someone could look at something and understand it or feel better about it, or whatever!I think it’s just about sharing.The notion of the work, which is ongoing every day, often gives me the awareness that I’d like to have this shared with other people, I’d like to make sure that other people get the chance to see it, too.What they do with it, I don’t know, but sharing becomes an important aspect of the work. Because as I say, that’s the everyday thing that I do. It’s nothing extraordinary, I don’t think.It matters to me that they find value in it or have something that actually will ring a bell for them, that actually takes them further in their way of living. Really, that’s all that matters.People don’t have to understand the reason behind it at all. You give a gift to somebody, do they have to ask you, ‘Why did you give me this gift?’I think at some point, the offering itself is itself the answer.But I think something is important about being excited about living. And if you’re excited about living, sometimes that excitement boils over that you want to share it with other people.And essentially the joy of it takes the work out of it. It’s not work when you do it. It’s the nature of an ongoing experience of living. That’s what life is!
Annual Public Meeting 2023 CanadaCouncil 2023-03-06 | Our Annual Public Meeting took place on January 24, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. ET. This recording presents the event in English. You can read transcripts for the event on our website: canadacouncil.ca/about/governance/annual-public-meeting. #CanadaCouncil23
Cultivate CanadaCouncil 2022-12-20 | Thinking about applying to Cultivate? Have a future-oriented collaborative project that addresses systemic issues in the arts sector, and helps rebuild a more resilient, sustainable, equitable, accessible, greener, healthier, and connected arts sector? In this video, we’ll guide you through the program guidelines, eligibility, and evaluation criteria to help determine if the Cultivate grant is right for your organization, collective or group of artists.To learn more about the Cultivate grant, check out the Canada Council website: canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/strategic-innovation-fund/innovation-grants/cultivate
The Musical #InstrumentBank’s transformative impact CanadaCouncil 2022-11-08 | The Musical Instrument Bank (MIB) was established in 1985 thanks to generous donors. More than 20 stringed instruments created by such master craftsmen as Stradivari, Gagliano and Pressenda have been donated or lent to the MIB.Through a triennial competition, the Canada Council for the Arts enables established soloists and chamber musicians, as well as musicians on the threshold of an international career, to access these high-quality stringed instruments, give concerts around the world and record pieces with them during the length of the loan. The MIB’s loan program contributes to the career advancement of musicians and offers various high-profile opportunities for partnership and public engagement.In this video, former MIB recipients Noémie Raymond-Friset and Timothy Chooi, as well as Ric W. Heinl, luthier for the MIB, reflect on the ways in which gaining access to such exceptional instruments can have a transformative impact on emerging musicians from Canada. Please like and share this video and subscribe to the Canada Council’s channel to support the arts in Canada.
Digital Greenhouse CanadaCouncil 2022-11-01 | Thinking about applying to Digital Greenhouse? Looking to use digital technology to address challenges, gaps, or opportunities related to the digital world? Will your project impact more than just your own organization? In this video, we’ll guide you through the program guidelines, eligibility, and evaluation criteria to help determine if this stream is right for you, your group, collective, or organization. To learn more about Digital Greenhouse, check out the guidelines on the Canada Council website, canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/strategic-innovation-fund/innovation-grants/digital-greenhouse
Research on the Value of Public Funding for Indigenous Arts and Cultures CanadaCouncil 2022-10-11 | This is a presentation about the "Research on the Value of Public Funding for Indigenous Arts and Cultures". This project was a collaborative effort between Archipel Research & Consulting and the Canada Council for the Arts. The results of the research, along with the Council's response, can be found on the Council's website: canadacouncil.ca/research/research-library/2022/09/research-on-public-funding-for-indigenous-arts-and-cultures.This presentation includes an overview of the project including context, methodology, and demographics as well as an overview of the findings of the report related to Indigenous community and arts and culture, the value of public funding and accessing funding opportunities.
Seed CanadaCouncil 2022-09-02 | Thinking about applying to Seed? Ready to kickstart a small-scale innovation activity that explores and develops capacity, partnerships, and promising innovation ideas? In this video, we’ll guide you through the program guidelines, eligibility, and evaluation criteria to help determine if this stream is right for you, your group, collective, or organization. To learn more about the Seed grant, check out the guidelines on the Canada Council website: canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/strategic-innovation-fund/innovation-grants/seed
Digital Generator Stream 2 CanadaCouncil 2022-07-29 | Ready to take the next steps in transforming your operations and increasing digital capacity in your organization? In this video, we'll guide you through the Digital Generator Stream 2 program guidelines, eligibility, and evaluation criteria to help you take the next steps. To learn more about Digital Generator Stream 2, check out the guidelines on the Canada Council website, canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/strategic-innovation-fund/innovation-grants/digital-generator#stream2
Digital Generator Stream 1 CanadaCouncil 2022-06-15 | Ready to take the first steps to build digital capacity in your organization? Thinking about applying to Digital Generator Stream 1? In this video, we’ll guide you through the program guidelines, eligibility, and evaluation criteria to help you take the next steps. To learn more about Digital Generator Stream 1, check out the guidelines on the Canada Council website, canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/strategic-innovation-fund/innovation-grants/digital-generator#stream1
2022 Annual Public Meeting CanadaCouncil 2022-05-02 | The Canada Council for the Arts’ 2022 Annual Public Meeting took place on March 30, 2022. The Council’s leaders reported on the past year’s accomplishments and shared the Council’s vision for the future of the arts sector. They then took questions from the sector and the general public.We would like to thank all our participants, with special thanks going to electronic duo The Halluci Nation for closing out the APM with an inspiring performance. #CanadaCouncil22Members present for the 2022 Annual Public Meeting:• Michelle Chawla, Director General of Strategy, Public Affairs, and Arts Engagement at the Council• Jesse Wente , Chairperson of the Canada Council for the Arts• Carolyn Warren, Director General of the Arts Granting Program• Simon Brault, Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the ArtsTable of Contents00:00 – Introductory Video - Canada Council for the Arts01:06 – Opening Remarks & Land Acknowledgement by Michelle Chawla05:57 – Jesse Wente - Creating a Just & Equitable Arts Sector, its involvement in the 2022 Arctic Arts Summit, and more10:54 – Michelle Chawla - Council’s support for the Arts Sector throughout the Pandemic, the launch of its current strategic plan, and more13:45 – Final Speech by Simon Brault, Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, on the Council’s activities in the year ahead, its Strategic Innovation Funds, and the importance of ongoing conversations with the arts sector.21:20 – Question & Answers21:47 –Why did the Council decide to stop funding Russian and Belarussian artists and arts organizations due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, given that it did not do the same with other recent global conflicts? – asked by Carmen Rodrigues23:35 – What are the specifics that the Council has planned for this year and for the next two years, for its engagements in equity and racialized authors? - asked by Elaine Wang 26:39 – In light of the economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the Canada Council planning on integrating a need-based component in its application for grants or is it going to start a separate set of grants that have a need-based component in addition to artistic excellence? – asked by Rea Beaumont29:07 – How is the newly announced innovation fund supporting artists? – asked by Clayton Windatt, Executive Director of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference(ARCA)35:30 – How do you think your programs will change to meet the needs of the arts sector?37:57 – Will recent, popular programs such as the Digital Strategy Fund or Digital Originals make a comeback?39:05 – How will the Council support the organization of these projects in the following year?42:09 – Concluding Statements42:35 – Performance by The Halluci NationFor more information, visit: canadacouncil.ca/about/governance/annual-public-meetingConnect with us on Social MediaCanada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Still Tho exhibition tour with curator, Mark V. Campbell, #StillThoShow CanadaCouncil 2022-03-22 | Take a guided tour of Still Tho: Aesthetic Survival in Hip-Hop’s Visual Art with curator, Mark V. Campbell. Still Tho is the latest exhibition in the Canada Council for the Arts’ Âjagemô space at 150 Elgin Street in Ottawa. The exhibition is on display from February 9 to May 23, 2022. Explore the work of visual artists from across Canada and beyond whose creativity speaks to the lasting impact of hip-hop’s visual art on both Canadian culture and visual aesthetics in our digital age. These works represent a diversity of visual arts practices and media, including graffiti murals, mixed media, and dance videos. Artists in the exhibition include Kalkidan Assefa, Corey Bulpitt, Curly, EGR, Eklipz, Elicser Elliott, Nelson “Dedos” Garcia, Mique Michelle, MissMe, STARE, Mark Stoddart, Mark Valino, and Wizwon. Dancers in Mark Valino’s Moments of Movement: Freestyle Dance series include Marie-Pier Lopes (Zepol Rock), Diana Reyes (Fly Lady Di), Tyrell Black, Ashley (Colours) Perez, and Tafiya B. among others. For more information, visit canadacouncil.ca/about/ajagemo/still-tho #StillThoShowConnect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Prix du Gouverneur général pour les arts du spectacle de 2021 CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Prix du Gouverneur général pour les arts du spectacle de 2021
Video Message for the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards, 2021 CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Simon Brault, Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, promotes the 2021 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Art, now more than ever, the Canada Council for the Arts’ 2021-26 Strategic Plan CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Our 2021-26 Strategic Plan, Art, now more than ever, is a call to rebuild a stronger, more sustainable, more resilient, and more equitable sector together. It draws on the strengths of innovation, social impact, and the leadership of artists, cultural workers, groups, and arts organizations. Now more than ever, we need the arts. Over the next five years, the Canada Council for the Arts will continue to ground its activities in the belief that the arts have the power to touch and transform all of us. We invite you to read and share Art, now more than ever: canadacouncil.ca/spotlight/2021/04/2021-26-strategic-plan #ReimagineTheArts
Portrait of Gerald McMaster, 2022 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Gerald McMaster is a 2022 winner of the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Lucius Dechausay .A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: When I first started as a curator, I didn’t know what I was getting into, for sure. I really saw few people around the Art Gallery of Ontario or any number of so-called public institutions that we see today. There were no Indigenous curators at all, so I was not the first one, but the only one.And so, to think about others, to talk with others, to exchange ideas was really shouting into a hollow sphere with no feedback loop.We can visualize the world from different perspectives, and there’s different ways of presenting works into these exhibition spaces.I think the biggest part of my work has been to introduce more Indigenous art into the collection. And instead of presenting it in an art historical way by particular movements through time, what we did was to thematize exhibitions and, by doing that, it allowed us to juxtapose various artists, both women, Indigenous and male Canadian artists together and present them in a way that had never been done before.What we wanted to say was that there are different ways of seeing the same thing. So by bringing these new ways of seeing—an Indigenous example of seeing the landscape—was really expanding our view of what Canadian art could be.Historically, institutions have taken that authority away from Indigenous peoples, but now investing back in Indigenous curators and Indigenous folks… this question of authority. And I think that’s a very, very powerful example of the responsibility of young curators. Seeing this growth of young people coming up today has been… I’m proud of that. That knowledge base is there for them to take hold of and to do something themselves. For the first many years of my life, I didn’t quite have that.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Jocelyn Robert, 2022 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Jocelyn Robert is a 2022 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Guillaume Vallée.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. People sometimes present me as a media artist, sometimes as a visual artist and sometimes as a musician. It doesn’t hold much meaning for me. I accept these titles, because they’re not untrue, but I don’t relate very much.I consider myself to be more of a miner. I dig but I don’t know what I’m going to find. But I dig and my eyes are open and, eventually, something glimmers. So I take it out and go show it to people. Look at this, it glimmers. Sometimes people say, “Oh, wow, it glimmers!” And sometimes they don’t. Sometimes, we don’t see the same thing. And that’s OK. I found something that glimmered—but either way I’ll go back to digging. So I dig and find something else.That’s my attitude towards research as an artist. There are things that end up being art and things that don’t. What is the second idea that will upset the first? That’s a Braque quote. In art, you need two ideas—one to upset the other. And that’s basically it. Which idea will create tension in this project?I make a lot of records. I play concerts as well, but music is the material I use. I don’t make music; I work with music. Those are two very different things. An artist is someone who gets into trouble and then has to invent ways to get back out of it. You reinvent the project itself because the question you asked doesn’t have a straightforward answer. So you reinvent a part of the project. And then, of course, you eventually end up somewhere you had never even considered going.The other thing I’m really interested in is changing my mind. It’s hard. There are different ways to do it. You dig, dig, dig, like a miner, until you find something. The other way is to collaborate with people. I’ve collaborated with a lot of people. And every time—well, not every time—some collaborations just don’t work out, let’s put it that way. But I’ve been lucky to collaborate with people who were ready to go places even they never thought they could go. The same goes for me. It’s fantastic. It’s what fuels me. I always have three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ten different ideas, and you never know which one is going to connect to another one. You’re working on one, and you borrow something from another idea, and you get a project. It’s always like that. Always, always, always.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Brigitte Clavette, 2022 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Brigitte Clavette is the 2022 winner of the Saidye Bronfman Award for the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Chris LeBlanc et Jérôme Luc Paulin.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Isjaki Studio. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: My name is Brigitte Clavette and I am a jeweller, metalsmith and sculptor. I live in New Brunswick.When I was eight years old, I met a woman who had a huge impact on my life and the life of many young artists and young people in Madawaska County: Audrey Côté St-Onge. When I was eight, she gave me my first painting kit and crayons and things that had an impact as a way to express myself.Silver is such an interesting material. I love it. You have a love-hate relationship with it sometimes because in its character, being sterling, it can tarnish. And I often say that silver is like a vain lover; it likes to be touched. It has to be touched in order to stay shiny. If you ignore it a little bit too long it becomes petulant and becomes black. And people can’t cope with that. It’s a relationship. And me working with it, it does what I want pretty well. (laughs)I am shiny because I love what I do. And I am proud of the work that I have been doing—teaching—for so many years. The creative part of teaching; you get fed by the students. They inspire you, they challenge you. So I’m gauging their success incrementally. That’s my job. It’s to make sure that everybody grows and learns something.I have distinct creative phases. It can be through design, or drawing, and then suddenly it’s an unusual object that I found somewhere. Or I decide to cast metal—so I cast metal. The other side of me that is methodical and meditative wants to make a bowl, fashion it and hammer, hammer, hammer it until I have the shape I want. Or I can make some sort of painting or watercolour that can start to inspire me—and these things go together. And I like creating pieces that you could use as a table centrepiece.And what happens is that, as I create, putting a bowl and maybe a crow’s foot or something that’s a little repulsive… That’s what I like—the tension the work creates between beauty and the decision to add in organic things like that. It’s a small amount of tension I like to create in my creations.I am very grateful to be getting the Saidye Bronfman Award for my work, for my work as a jeweller and metalsmith, but also as recognition for my teaching and my career, where I worked to help and inspire so many others.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Moyra Davey, 2022 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Moyra Davey is a 2022 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Sheilah ReStack.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: Whenever possible, light always comes first. And if I can, I will organize a shoot around sunlight. For my most recent video, Horse Opera, I was waking at four in the morning to film the horses at sunrise.I made my own portraits of young people. My son and his friends directly channelling Cameron. More recently, I’ve channelled Peter Hujar’s portraits of animals. These are all forms of love, homage, re-enactment and repetition.I’ve done re-enactments of scenes from other people’s films, and I’ve revisited my own videos, reprising images of my sisters, for instance. One time, I did it with the idea of retelling the story that showing our bodies as they are now, dramatically altered by time...Something needs to be made when there is a strong urge. I cultivated a drive when I was quite young. It was my solution to the chaos of family life and of being roped into religion. Drive was how I planned my escape.He felt my frozen feet and lit a fire, burning a cube of oak cut from his desk. How do you feel when you’re with your son, and your husband enters the room? And on and on. Is there anything you haven’t told me about yourself? I told as much as I could.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of David Ruben Piqtoukun, 2022 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. David Ruben Piqtoukun is a 2022 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Bawaadan Collective.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Bawaadan Collective. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance.The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: I collected stories from childhood. That’s how people entertained us kids, us children—through stories. We used our imagination when we heard the stories. And for me, I was fascinated, always.In 1974, I encountered a doctor named Dr. Allan Gonor from North Battleford, Saskatchewan. He introduced me to… “Tell me about your stories.”After I did, he mentioned that… he told me that these stories―the old legends, the stories… You can create mythology, which is the next stage after knowing the stories. This mythology will help you develop images in your mind that you can transfer to the stone.I listened to the stories, and I imagined. Once I realized, reheard the story, I could visualize the images, these images I could recreate from stone. When I’m carving it, the stone tells me… I have a dialogue, a special dialogue with the material.Storytelling in our culture is―and in different places around the world―passed down from generations, interpreted and reinterpreted.The artist’s job is to embellish it.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Monique Régimbald‐Zeiber, 2022 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Monique Régimbald‐Zeiber is a 2022 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Ryan Barnett.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Knockabout Media. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: History is very important in my work. What I like to do is to make women talk to one another. So I take their writings and put them together. I put impossibilities and make them talk to one another by juxtaposing and superimposing their writings, by imagining conversations.Chronologically, it would seem impossible, but when we read the text, we can clearly see that there are points of agreement where we can imagine very serious, very dense conversations, but also conversations that could be pretty funny, comical even.So, through reading history as a young person, we notice things that are missing. It’s written by highly educated, male historians, who look at history. There aren’t a lot of women in there. You notice that there are histories that have not been written yet, voices that are not yet part of the heart of history, closer to domesticity, where important things are taking place in the everyday.We are born, we are fed, we grow, and we learn. I don’t do history—I’m not a historian and I’m not a journalist. I’m not writing any articles. I’m trying to explore a question, or have it spring forth… to make a question spring forth. Maybe it produces something that we haven’t seen or heard before. It opens up a world of possibility.Since 2013 or so, I have stopped overproducing, and I have stopped buying new materials. And so, since I don’t buy anything, I don’t throw anything out. If I take a pencil crayon and I sharpen it, I get wood and pigment, colour—I keep it. When I rip a canvas, all the thread that frays, I keep. And when I start pulling at threads, I can just see my aunts and my grandmother pulling at threads to make something else. I can see them in the way I move; I am reminded of the way they moved. But my movements belong to a different context, a different history.When I look at my bags of threads, I always feel like… they call to mind plenty of sentences that have not yet been written, and plenty of things that are hiding or waiting to be spoken. And so, the less materials I have, the more material I have.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Carol Condé + Karl Beveridge, 2022 #GGARTS winners CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Carol Condé + Karl Beveridge are the 2022 winners of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Tyler Tekatch.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Ty Tekatch Films. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: K: You know, I think the old work is good for what it was. It’s just that we’re at a point now where it’s no longer… C: But we can’t just keep on doing the same work. I mean, it becomes really meaningless and redundant.K: What are we going to do? C: I don't know, we’re one of the most privileged groups of people around.K: You know, we can sit and speculate about a so-called revolutionary society, some kind of social transformation. But what can we actually do about it? What issues can we talk about? K: Initially, I wanted to be a trumpet player, which was kind of curious, but then I realized I was tone deaf, so I had to give that up. In my teens, I started painting a bit and then I went to Ontario College of Art, and then I met Carole, and everything changed at that point.C: I grew up in Hamilton. I’ve always assumed I was going to be doing art. So I came to Toronto and lived in the YWCA from 16 till I was 18 or so. And then I was at OCA for those years. And then I met Karl. K: I mean, when we started out as artists in the 1960s, we really believed in this kind of a liberal premise that the art world was inherently progressive, anti-Vietnam War stuff was going on, and so we were political in that sense. But it wasn’t part of our art practice at that time. That changed when we went to New York. C: We were existing on a small amount of money and living right in the centre of SoHo amongst all the different artists who were being critical of the world. It wasn’t just the art world, but making art about criticism of how the world was being organized. K: It’s interesting that what we ended up participating in was the shift from modernism to postmodernism… was that change. C: So after being an activist in New York, we then each of us went back to our communities and created organizations within the city that you were living in.K: When we came back to Toronto, we very quickly connected in with not only a political community here, but that kind of end of, you might say, the left end of the art world. The local press just trashed us. ‘This isn’t art. Keep politics out of art’ and all that sort of stuff. But it did reach an audience here, and it did kind of signal something. I mean, one of the things that drives us in terms of working with the union movement and community groups and whatnot is to make culture accessible beyond the art world itself. C: A union is the collective voice of working people. And that collective voice then has a space to be able to be shown and heard and to hear the story that they’re telling. You’re giving a voice to that issue that they’re expressing. K: We very carefully construct the images to tell a story.C: And because we work together, we sit here and yap and argue with each other for weeks on end before we even begin to think about going up into the studio. He will have an idea in mind, and I will have an idea in mind. And then you try to melt it together, and that structuring is how we do our work. So it’s not like one person thinks about it, and then the other person goes up and does it.K: As Carole describes our working process, we argue.C: Yeah, yeah.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Pierre Bourgault, 2022 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2022-03-02 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Pierre Bourgault is a 2022 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Sarah Seené.A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: I am known as the “sea sculptor.”And in everything I’ve done, there have always been lived and felt experiences of the sea.My exhibitions have all been named after things that relate to the sea, whether it be the wind, boats, all manner of adventures.I come from a family that has always worked with wood. They are known as woodworkers. And I continued the tradition.I don’t try to reason anything out. It always has to be subconscious, like an idea that just comes to float over the oil of my brain at night.I’ve made it a habit that it be literal, in a way. What comes to me is always a sentence. A well-articulated sentence that flows, that is almost musical. And at that moment, so that I don’t lose its quality, I go downstairs and write it down right away because I’ve often lost things that were very interesting.Everything is political, in the end. As soon as you make a movement—be it secret, discreet or violent—it’s always political. It’s politics, but it’s also poetry. Poetry isn’t always just things written down with smart words that split open, it’s actions as well.Beauty really comes… “true beauty,” if you can say that, is the quality of the meaning. That’s it. But it isn’t “aesthetic beauty,” it’s beauty in meaning, you know? Beauty that is versatile, that lends itself to any state of mind you may have. Now, that’s beautiful!All of my sculptures include a space for sleeping, for seeking refuge. I’ve always built little houses, habitable sculptures. They’re like a reserve, like a bird in a place.What I like to do is to conduct exercises consisting in living in a given space. Even if the sculpture is huge—living in it. Living in the horizon. You build lots of things on the water. Your imagination lands on the water. It reflects the earth, and that reflection is reflected in the sky.And then, the sky itself, having borrowed the colour and shape of the sea, reflects what is on the earth. It’s two mirrors speaking to each other. That’s what it is.[Laughs].Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Don Ross, 2021 winner of the Walter Carsen Prize CanadaCouncil 2021-12-16 | Don Ross is the 2021 winner of the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. The video was directed by Ryan McCarvill.The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: canadacouncil.ca/funding/prizes/walter-carsen-prize-for-excellence-in-the-performing-artsConnect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Canada Council laureate 2012 Margaret Dragus Museum, 11-minute video compilation CanadaCouncil 2021-08-05 | Margaret Dragu's Museum, 11-minute video compilation including: 1. Deconstructed Dollhouse, Video In/Western Front, Vancouver, 1996, 16 mm film by R. Cain 2. Living Art, performed at Cosmo Mall, Richmond, B.C., 2000 3. Corpus Delicious, Western Front, Vancouver, 2000, video by Eileen Kage, music by Jim Munro and John Prashant 4. More Cleaning and Loving (It), FADO Performance Art Centre, performed at the Ontario Legislature, Toronto, 2000, music by Alfons Fear and Rakesh Tewari 5. Rent Do, Western Front/National Film Board, Vancouver, 2000 6. Walking Woman, Big B/DWI/Richmond Art Gallery/Vancouver Art Gallery production, 2004, music by Coat Cooke and Joseph Pepe Danza 7. Biking Woman, Richmond Art Gallery/LIVE Biennale, 2005 8. Pillow Book, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Ont., 2006 9. Marginalia Aktion 1, collaboration with artist Pam Hall, Grunt/LIVE Biennale, Vancouver, 2005 10. Performology Re-Mix: a gestural algorithm, 2004, simultaneous webcast: Tagny Duff at Studio XX, Montreal, with Margaret Dragu at Western Front, Vancouver. 11. Rising, Eastern Edge, St. John's/Western Front, Vancouver/la central, Montréal/Latitude 53, Edmonton, 2004-05, video by Tammy (Deergirl) Forsythe, Michelle Bush and othersConnect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Exhibition Tour: Collecting Our Thoughts CanadaCouncil 2021-08-05 | On March 9, 2015, the Canada Council for the Arts hosted a free lunch-time art tour of the exhibition Collecting Our Thoughts. Join Claudio Marzano, an art consultant with the Canada Council Art Bank, as he walks us through a few of the works on display. Collecting Our Thoughts showcases selected works by past winners of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, which it is celebrates its 15th year in 2015. This exhibition, comprised entirely of works from the collection of the Canada Council Art Bank is on view in the Canada Council’s Âjagemô space from November 3, 2014 to April 14, 2015Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Canada Council for the Arts Grant Program: Creating, Knowing and Sharing Aboriginal Arts CanadaCouncil 2021-08-05 | The Canada Council for the Arts presents Creating, Knowing and Sharing Aboriginal Arts, one of 6 grant programs in our new funding model. These 6 new programs will replace the existing suite of 147 programs by 2017. To find out more about the Canada Council’s new funding model visit: http://newfundingmodel.canadacouncil.caConnect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
New Canada Council for the Arts Grant Program: Supporting Artistic Practice CanadaCouncil 2021-08-05 | The Canada Council for the Arts presents Supporting Artistic Practice, one of 6 grant programs in our new funding model. These 6 new programs will replace the existing suite of 147 programs by 2017.To find out more about the Canada Council’s new funding model visit: http://newfundingmodel.canadacouncil.caConnect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Impostor Cities: Canada Pavilion (Inauguration) CanadaCouncil 2021-05-20 | Presentation from the immersive virtual inauguration celebrating Impostor Cities at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia on May 20 at 1:00 p.m. EDT.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Explore and Create – Applying for a Grant – Information Session CanadaCouncil 2021-04-14 | Please like this video and subscribe to this channel to support the arts in Canada.The Council’s Explore and Create program funds Canadian artists, artistic groups and organizations committed to the creation and dissemination of innovative, vibrant and diverse art.This information session covers everything you need to know about applying for a grant under Explore and Create—what the different components are, who can apply, what the deadlines are and how to submit an application.The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm’s-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) “to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts.” For more information, visit canadacouncil.ca/funding/grants/explore-and-create.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Digital Now – Applying for a Grant – Information Session CanadaCouncil 2021-04-14 | Please like this video and subscribe to this channel to support the arts in Canada.Digital Now is a one-time digital innovation initiative that provides arts groups, collectives and organizations with grants to adapt existing works or create new ones to be shared virtually with audiences.This information session covers everything you need to know about applying for a grant under Digital Now—who can apply, what the deadlines are and how to submit an application.The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm’s-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) “to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts.” For more information, visit canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/digital-now.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Lori Blondeau, 2021 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2021-02-23 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Lori Blondeau is a 2021 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Rhayne Vermette.A production of the Canada Council for the Arts. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: Lori’s Narration:I grew up being told stories, and I’m still being told stories. Now, I tell stories. That’ssomething the colonizer couldn’t take away from us—that we still have our stories.Sound of the background interview then fades up and in ….Lori: “really quite huge rock art pieces that our people put down. That is our history…Lori Narration continues:Family is really important. Our family history, and especially my mother’s family,because I really believe I come from a matriarch.My parents were activists. My father worked for the friendship centres until he retired. My mother worked for the Native Women’s Association. She was part of the group of Native women that fought for Bill C-31 to be reinstated. Ultimately, those are the people who really influenced me.Sound of the background interview then fades up and in ….Lori: “This is the rock that I’ve had for a really long time. When I do my Sisters piece, this is therock that is constant, that I use to crush the berries. The original dress that I wore…”Lori Narration continues:It’s interesting, thinking of time. Then I started thinking of my own birth stories of having fourchildren, and how that totally changed my life.Sound of the background interview then fades up and in ….Lori: “This is the lounging jacket that I made for the actual performance. The dress wasused for the photoshoot…”Lori Narration continues:There is no concept of time when somebody passes, or when somebody is born.Sound of the background interview then fades up and in ….Lori: “My youngest daughter, she was two years old when I did it. So thank god she’s a bitolder than COSMOSQUAW!”Lori Narration continues:Just want to show you the shoes. These are the shoes that James actually gave to me. That’s one thing I really learned from him: taking an object and just changing it.The late James Luna said to me, “Performance art is a medium for us Indigenous people that doesn’t compromise our culture. It makes me excited that I can make work that questions these ideas of rule, of law, of sovereignty… whose sovereignty? I want to feel what it was like to crush berries on two stones. My ancestors, that’s how they would do it. I think maybe this is what James Luna was talking about.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Bonnie Devine, 2021 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2021-02-23 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Bonnie Devine is a 2021 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Alexander Seltzer.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and AMS Films. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: For me, the way that I approach landscape is by walking, by actually engaging with the land, not just visually but in every sense. It’s not about finding that picturesque site. What I’m always interested in is the history of the place, the people who were there and what I try to do is actually talk about the land. You know what does the land remember? Is it possible that the land has a memory? I was born in Toronto but raised up north with deep, deep family and community and spiritual connections, I would say, if that doesn’t sound too corny. I just feel deeply connected to the North. I’ve been engaged for many years thinking about the history of Ontario that we don’t know. Most of my life has been dedicated to trying to find that out for myself. And the artwork is sort of the ephemera that comes out of those research explorations.My work is very personal to me. It’s a combination of walking on the land and travelling there. It’s taking photographic evidence of the site. It’s spending time there, sitting there, doing sketches, but more than that, it’s going to the library and getting books and reading everything I can about the history. And this is difficult in Ontario, of course, because we don’t have that many accounts that go further back than, say, Lord Simcoe. In the story of this land, that’s really quite recent.You’re trying to access an even deeper history and this can be challenging but also incredibly inspiring. I think a lot of my work comes from that kind of combination of recorded knowledge, memory and dream.When I was growing up, I watched my grandparents who were trappers. I saw the way that they handled materials—wood, reeds, fur—they were constantly modifying in order to give it another use. When thinking about how to make something in order to reflect what I’ve learned about a specific place or a specific thing, it usually comes to me kind of intuitively. I’ll see something like these pine needles. And I’ll think, “Wow, I would love to make something out of this, and I would love to see if I can bend them and how would you tie them?” I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of turning something that is linear into something that is circular.I am able to be so much freer when I’m working with materials, just to experiment, to speculate about what might happen if this goes this way or that goes that way. We are always striving to make meaning, we’re always striving to convey meaning, but what I see my role as, in art practice, is really about establishing a relationship with my materials and then allowing them to say what they want to say.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Dempsey Bob, 2021 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2021-02-23 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada.Dempsey Bob is a 2021 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Storm Carroll.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Skeena River Media. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: I was close to nature, close to the Eagles and the Ravens and the animals.They inspired me and they still do, and I find that, in nature, everything is there. We’re just blind, that’s why we don’t see it. Because to be good at sculpture, you have to know the animals. You have to know how they look. You have to know how they fly. You need to draw them and express it, to express it. You have to know the wolf. And what I find, too, is this place gives me the time to do my art and do it properly and be creative. And I’m creative here, that’s all that matters. I realize that wherever you live affects the way you are as an artist.Because you are bombarded by images all day, all the time. I find that living in nature, or close to nature… it’s peaceful, it’s calming, it’s healing, actually. The passion, my own passion and hard work. And now, I understand how important it is to our culture, because culture is what makes us human, culture is what makes us Tlingit, culture is what makes us Tsimshian, culture is what makes us Haida. People don’t understand that even in Northwest coast art, it evolves, and it changes. Somebody asked me if I still use stone tools. I’d starve with those. What I told him was that I came on a jet plane, I didn’t come on the canoe, so… my life is different. Talent is cheap—it’s the dedication that’s costly, and it’s the hard work. As an artist, you’ve got to live up to your potential, or try to, and do what you could really do, use what you know. That’s what I’m trying to do. I want to do the best work I can do. Because I realize that, in the end, that’s all that matters. So many things are going to be remembered. You’ve got to do some great work if you can.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Cheryl L’Hirondelle, 2021 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2021-02-23 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Cheryl L’Hirondelle is a 2021 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Katrina Beatty.A production of the Canada Council for the Arts. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: Always remember who you are and where you’re from.That really is so important to everything I’ve ever done as an artist.And that was something my mom always taught me.I’m interested in listening to the land.I’m interested in what you might think is no sound… there’s always sound. Whether it be the crunching of the snow. Whether it be the wind. The more still you can become and the more you can become one with your environment, the more you can start to discern. In the arts you have to be an ambassador and your voice has to be for a good reason. In Cree, you say, “namoya pa-kwanta,” “not for no reason,” you know? So, I think that’s always been really important to me that all the work I make has to be making a stand, making a statement or revealing of something unique about Native people. Indigenous languages are actually like an antidote for the woes of the world. I focus a lot on language. When I first started learning Cree, that’s when I first really started to understand who I was and I started to understand that there’s a different way to look at the world. If every concept in the language is sort of metaphorical, you’ve just got so much to play with as an artist, conceptually. And because my work is quite conceptual to begin with, it just allows me so much more opportunity to push things. So that really has informed my practice and it’s vital to everything I’ve ever done. Lillian Allen, the dub poet, was an important mentor for me, and Lillian Allen used to always say, “Anybody can see that there’s a problem. It’s an artist’s responsibility to come up with at least two solutions.” And that’s a great charge.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Bryce Kanbara, 2021 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2021-02-23 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Bryce Kanbara is the 2021 winner of the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Maya Bastian.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Maya Bastian. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: I wish I didn’t have to stir things up in the community. But I mean, some things justbeg to be stirred up.Even activism, even political work. It’s got to be fun right? It’s got to be enjoyable.A simple but very crucial part of doing the work that we do is getting to know oneanother.Community building and community development is an important aspect ofeverything I do.I have a real empathy for artists because I know what it’s like to create work and to do it in isolation and without a lot of public response.It’s important to help them. They’re very inspirational.In my small way, I’d like to think that I build a bridge and maybe some understanding.Because it’s the first step towards building some kind of equality in a really genuine, authentic way. I think I could do that. Yeah, I could do that.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Lou Lynn, 2021 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2021-02-23 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Lou Lynn is the 2021 winner of the Saydie Bronfman Award for the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Amy Bohigian.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Watershed Productions Inc. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: The studio to me is a sanctuary, a place where I can enter in and find the muse, where I can go as far out in any direction in exploring my creativity as I want to.The question about my interest in tools—where did it come from—I’m not really certain, but I do know that this was the first tool that I encountered that I thought, “Now what the heck is that?” My reply to that is, “That’s art.”I’m very much married to my materiality, but it’s the search for form and the ideas that I’m after. I might be working with a wax and think, “OK, there’s some potential here, but what’s lacking? Ahh, what’s lacking is it wants to become more three dimensional than it is. It wants to become exaggerated.” I’m not interested in it unless I am pushing that form. The ‘archaeology of daily life.’ I use that to describe what I am doing out here. It’s examining the mundane. Then, it’s a matter of just studying the historical aspect of egg flippers or eggbeaters or whatever it is. Now, where am I taking this?It wasn’t until the latter part of the 1980s that I became aware of what was going on sculpturally in glass, which ultimately led me to the Pilchuck Glass School, north of Seattle, where I encountered artists who were pushing glass in every direction. They were fully three-dimensional objects that really had no relationship to function. It was artistic expression that was being searched for. I started incorporating metal into the sculpture because there was a longing for some other way to express my ideas. When you think about the two materials of metal and glass, you have one material that is incredibly fragile and you have another material that represents strength. Now, we have the marriage of these two materials and my challenge as an artist is to create something that is harmonious.I think the most rewarding part of my career has been the journeys that is has taken me on and the doors that have opened because of my career. There’s never trying to please an audience. Creativity, for me, probably for a lot of artists, it’s pleasing ourselves. This is my exploration. If it was anybody else’s, it would be an entirely different thing.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Luc Courchesne, 2021 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2021-02-23 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Luc Courchesne is a 2021 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Patrick Péris.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Toribou Productions. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca**** Transcript: I think the artist’s role has not changed very much throughout the history of art. Our mission is to understand the world we live in and, if we find something, to share it using the tools we have.I always thought that a work of art is simply a moment in a very, very long process.I see it as a process. In other words, today, before you got here, I was working on something and, when you leave, I will work on something else.At some point, you will have a public rendezvous. Your film will be ready. It will be seen by someone, or my next project will be presented or exhibited.So those are moments, but the process itself is in fact fairly uninterrupted.Because often, the next project will be inspired by what you didn’t like in the previous one.You say to yourself, “Oh, I wanted to do this, but it didn’t work. I’ll try again in the next project.”At the beginning, technological art was very technological—it had very little to do with art and a lot to do with technology.Towards the end, when we had successfully mastered the medium, we could make art that was secondarily technological.But we were making art and that was the whole point. We don’t want to be technology artists; we want to be artists.Technology is simply what dates the work. The work done in the 1990s is dated by the technology we were using at the time.But the artistic quest in itself is the same in all of human history.I don’t believe in it. There is a lot of talk about augmented reality and virtual reality, but reality is what you experience. There is only one reality. And it is augmented by experiences.Being immersed in a space that is not visible to the naked eye but that lets us understand the infinitely small or infinitely large, or our place in the universe, or our place in the world, or our impact on ecosystems can enable us to live more environmentally responsible lives.Art must take on the complex challenges involved in the shift towards digital technology critically.That is, we are not going to do what the industry asks us to do, or what the devices are made for.We’re going to hijack them. We’re going to do something with them. Just to learn how this world where we mix atoms and bits, or technology and the analogue, the physical and the virtual... how to integrate that so that it’s fluid and it’s made for us humans.It’s not over until it’s over, as we say, and I continue to be challenged and excited by the technical side of things to see what can be done with that.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Germaine Arnaktauyok, 2021 #GGARTS winner CanadaCouncil 2021-02-23 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Germaine Arnaktauyok is a 2021 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Amos Scott.A co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Adze Studios Inc. A presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance. The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts." For more information, visit: en.ggarts.ca****Transcript: I was always drawing, since I was little, and I never questioned it and just kept going. I’m 74 years old and I’m still at it. I started doing legends and myths years ago. The day I was born to nine years old, I lived in a camp. A real camp. We had igloo, sealskin tents, sod houses—that’s how I was when I was growing up. We used to ask my father to tell us stories. It was all legends that he used to tell. I think it might come from that. Maybe in my little mind, I was picturing things. I don’t know. It could be from that. Because that was the first thing I was learning about, legends. I’ve never thought of that before—I just thought about it! I started doing pen ink, and I was experimenting over the years. I came up with what I call squiggles. I do it this way and then I do it this way. And that makes it very impossible to see the scenes. You constantly have to look at the whole picture, because you can overdo things and get a dark area where you don’t want it. I don’t go out to the land doing landscapes; I never do that. The way I think, I say, “It’s there already. Why should I copy it?” If you do legends, you have nothing to copy. You have to do it on your own. I try to put myself in the story—how they think, how they breathe—and I make them alive in my mind. My name is Germaine Arnaktauyok and I have been an artist all my life. And that’s the only thing I know how to do.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Canada Council Annual Public Meeting 2021 CanadaCouncil 2021-02-18 | Our Annual Public Meeting took place on January 26, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. ET. This recording includes closed captioning and simultaneous interpretation in ASL . You can read an all-English transcript of the event as well as an all-French transcript of the event on our website: canadacouncil.ca/about/governance/annual-public-meeting.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Understanding the Digital Strategy Fund CanadaCouncil 2020-08-07 | Are you thinking about submitting an application to the Digital Strategy Fund?Do you want to learn more about the Digital Strategy Fund?In this webinar, we’ll guide you through the Fund’s program components, guidelines and evaluation criteria. Read the transcript: canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/digital-strategy-fund/video-understanding-the-digital-strategy-fundCheck out the DSF components and guidelines: canadacouncil.ca/funding/strategic-funds/digital-strategy-fundConnect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
COVID-19: Information and support for the arts sector - ASL CanadaCouncil 2020-06-18 | This video provides general information on how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting programs and services at the Canada Council. The information will cover the Council’s operations, travel grants and public events, where to find more information and how to get in touch with us.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
Portrait of Jorge Lozano Lorza, #GGARTS2020 winner CanadaCouncil 2020-02-19 | Please like this video and subscribe to support the arts in Canada. Jorge Lozano Lorza is a 2020 winner of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Directed by Josiane Blanc. Production of the Canada Council for the Arts. Presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance.The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm’s-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) “to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts.” For more information, visit ggarts.ca****Transcript:To me one of the most revolutionary things that I can do as a person is to enjoy what I do. I came to Canada in 1971, and I came to the Island, actually.When I came, I had to work in a lot of jobs as an immigrant. What I kept within myself is this feeling of wanting to express myself. The first thing that I did was to buy a Super 8 camera because I’d seen some experimental Super 8 films in Columbia from Norman McLaren. So, when I came, I bought that camera and went out onto Yonge Street. And as I began doing that I discovered, too, that I wasn’t represented in the arts or in the media. I would turn the TV on, and I couldn’t see people like me or with my concerns. Making films and videos was the tool that I used to put myself in the picture and say, ‘I exist.’ A lot of my work is an encounter with situations, with events. Through observing and thinking a lot about what I see, and in some ways, trying to detect what separates us, trying to detect what does us harm as [a] community or as groups. When it’s recorded and I bring it back into the house, it’s already charged with intensity. Things that have excited me, that have impacted me, that I had to film or to record. To me, to create is an act of happiness. Even though [they are] difficult subjects, I feel good about it. So that gives me freedom and happiness to do it. I don’t do political work; I do it politically. It’s not that I do work about issues. The issues are there because they are part of my life, so the works have that. Real politics to me is thinking, how much am I what I am questioning? The plants have always played a very significant role in my videos, absolutely. The plants are a transformation to me. The plants are adaptable. Basically, I identify with them. In a way, they are still being themselves in another place but they’re not at the same time. Doing what I do is my life. I have nothing else that I can do and that I want to do. And when one does what one wants to do, it’s kind of a privilege. Most people can’t do that. Most people have to work in another job. And I have the fortune to be able to do what I want to do as I want to do it and how I want to do it.Connect with us on social media:Canada Council for the Arts Instagram - instagram.com/canada.councilFacebook - facebook.com/canadacouncilTwitter - twitter.com/CanadaCouncilLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canada-council-for-the-artsWebsite - canadacouncil.caArt BankInstagram - instagram.com/artbank_banquedartFacebook - facebook.com/CCartbankYouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=x9fGIx7hZYkWebsite - artbank.caCCUNESCO - Canadian Commission for UNESCOInstagram - instagram.com/ccunescoTwitter - twitter.com/CCUNESCOLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/canadian-commission-for-unescoWebsite - en.ccunesco.ca
