ALTERED STATES //// DEC 16 | 7PM DOOR / 8 PM SHOW | 2010 | LITTLE MOUNTAIN GALLERY | 195 E 26th

//// WITH VICTOR BALLESTEROS, ROSS BIRDWISE, SORESSA GARDNER,

KAJIN GOH, ROK OBLAK

//// A L T E R E D • S T A T E S


//// Thursday | December 16th

//// Little Mountain Gallery | 195 East 26th (near Main)

//// Door: 7pm | Show: 8pm

//// Cover: Pay what you can [ $5 suggested donation ]*


* all proceeds will be donated to Little Mountain Gallery



Come out to the Little Mountain Gallery to see a series of video works in a cinema-like presentation on Thursday December 16th. The program includes a carefully sequenced group of works by Ross Birdwise, Soressa Gardner, Kajin Goh, Victor Ballesteros and Rok Oblak.

Expect to see, among other things:


Ross Birdwise's and Soressa Gardner's work features processed videos of people singing in shifting lighting conditions. These works treat video like sound, using audio processing techniques and effects (such as phasing, delays, granular synthesis derived effects, etc.) as inspiration for how the videos look as well as sound. On these pieces the sound and image are almost always edited and processed in a single gesture. The works also function as temporally shifting portraits of their subjects and an exploration into the technologically mediated possibilities of the human voice.


In Kajin Goh's Alleys of Damansara Jaya (2008) hovering, dislocated figures are eerily suspended in lonely alleyways, in a liminal space and time that Goh refers to as the 'Forbidden Hour', "that transitory and brief period of dusk between night and day when restless spirits awaken, bats begin their hunt, and dreams take on new and more volatile meanings. The ‘Forbidden Hour’ signals the end of rational activities and introduces the arrival of night, the awakening of the unconscious, and the rousing of the spirit realm."


In Bikes (2008), an intense, phenomenological, near psychedelic exploration of bicycling sounds and spinning bicycle wheels, Victor Ballesteros and Rok Oblak experiment with contrasts between a single video perspective and several audio recordings of the same event, blurring together a single space with multiple moments in time.

For a detailed program please visit www.littlemountaingallery.com

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More about the artists:

Ross Birdwise is an artist and musician originally from Ottawa. His artistic practice includes electronic music, vocal music, non-idiomatic improvisation, performance art, photography and video. He has performed at the Mutek Festival in Montreal, with Anthony Braxton in Vancouver (Sonic Genome - The Roundhouse) and has shown visual art in a variety of contexts including Gallery 101 (Ottawa) and Vancouver New Music (Theatre for the Ears - Scotiabank Dance Centre). He obtained a BFA from Ottawa University in 2005 and an MAA from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2008. He has trouble separating his hobbies from his creative practices.

VĂ­ctor Ballesteros obtained an MAA from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2009. His recent collaborative projects have been shown at the Vancouver New Music Festival 2010 and Squarewaves Festival 2010. He currently lives in Vancouver.

Kajin Goh works with video, audio, interactive media, installation, photography, and writing, as well as research/development in wireless and locative technologies. From 2003 to 2005 he was lead project designer for Digital Cities, a Hexagram/Concordia joint venture researching mobile applications and locative media in Montreal. In 2005, he traveled back to his once-a-hometown of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a year-long residency, where he exhibited and made new video works. In 2006 he moved back to Vancouver, where he started doing a bunch of things with a bunch of people like performing and making music and volunteering and stuff.

Soressa Gardner is a vocalist, improviser and electronic music composer who collaborates with authors (Dennis E, Bolen, Evie Christie), dancers (BODAC) visual artists (Birdwise, Ballesteros) and a range of musicians. Her work has been performed at Vancouver New Music Festival 2010, Squarewaves Festival, the Western Front and Rutgers University-Camden. She holds a music degree from Vancouver Community College specializing in classical voice and electronic music.

Rok Oblak works on diverse projects ranging from product and interaction design to visual arts. He was a visiting student at MAA program at University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland before finishing his MAA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2009. He is currently based in Vancouver.