Studio XX Residency with W2 / Fearless City Mobile in Vancouver

After a rich journey through the Maritimes, Studio XX’s TransCanada Pipeline Project moves west to Vancouver to undertake a Residency with W2 / Fearless City Mobile programme in association with DTES Community Arts Network, Mobile Muse 3 and the Vancouver Art Gallery's FUSE.

From November 20-28, media artist and Studio XX ProductionDirector Bérengère Marin Dubuard (Beewoo) with collaborate with five women  - a mix of community workers, media artists/non-media artists and Downtown Eastside residents – to undertake an intensive residency exploring exploring  the repurposing of interactive & mobile networks.

The culmination of this residency will be performed at Vancouver Art Gallery's FUSE event on Friday, November 28th from 6:00 PM -1:00 am  streamed on live screens featuring a multichannel montage of mobile video, digital images, and mms text.

Participants will also explore and present their favourite artworks (as educators) from Studio XX’s Matricules archive concluding with Beewoo’s complete presentation of Matricules: the world’s largest online archive of women’s digital artworks, on Wednesday, November 26th @ 7 pm at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s “Heritage Courtroom”

These endeavours will celebrate, critique and provides audiences with a chance to comment on the breathtaking Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution Exhibition and FUSE performances. A VJ will remix live mobile video and images shot by Fearless City Mobile, with mms text sent by the audience.

W2/Fearless Mobile and Studio XX’s collaboration offers women a hands-on opportunity to experiment with open source multimedia software, Web tools, real-time video processing, and VJ performance.

Studio XX thanks W2 / Fearless’ amazing team:Irwin Oostindie, Amy Kazymerchyk
and Brady Marks.