Tag Archives: Tea Cups
Green tea cup: collectivities in SEA Foundation’s Video Art and Experimental Film Event on Solidarity, The Netherlands, 2023
Green tea cup: collectivities will be shown in Tilburg, The Netherlands from June 30 – July 2nd, 2023, as part of SEA Foundation’s second edition of Video Art and Experimental Film Event (VAEFE 2023). The walk-in cinema presents a selection of looping films by international artists, exploring new approaches to the theme of Solidarity. More […]
White saucer: surveillant eye in Roman Susan’s Streetlight series of video projections, Chicago, March 2021
White saucer: surveillant eye will be shown as part of Roman Susan’s Streetlight series of video projections in their storefront space in Chicago, from March 8 – 28, 2021. Roman Susan Art Foundation is a nonprofit art organization based in the Rogers Park neighbourhood of Chicago. Their year-round programming includes exhibitions and events at their […]
Tea Cups photos and videos in Kingston’s Next Door exhibition, June 17-August 17, 2020
I’m excited to participate in Next Door, a great exhibition initiative in Kingston presented by the Union Gallery and Skeleton Park Arts Festival, to enable people to experience artwork while walking their neighbourhood from June 17- August 17, 2020. Thank you to Jan Allen for the invitation to collaborate, and to Garry Allen for allowing […]
White saucer: surveillant eye in Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, March 13-31, 2019
The video White saucer: surveillant eye will be exhibited from March 13-31, 2019 in Toulouse, France, as part of the 22nd Rencontres Traverse Vidéo: L’Expérimental{recherche/art}. Catalogue text about White saucer: surveillant eye by Artistic Director Simone Dompeyre Programming at Prép’Art exhibition site Festival website
Shatter solo exhibit at Patrick Mikhail Gallery Montreal, March 2 – April 6, 2019
In SHATTER, Pagurek explores the tenuous state of current world affairs. Made by projecting contemporary global news imagery into delicate vintage teacups and saucers, these works evoke our own human fragility, the shattering of fragile notions of peace and social democracy, and the vulnerability of the earth itself to natural disaster. On view at Patrick Mikhail […]
White saucer: surveillant eye in Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Montreal
White saucer: surveillant eye will be screened during the 37th Festival International du Film sur l’Art in Montreal. It will be presented in a FIFA Expérimental program on Sunday March 24th, 2019, at 3 pm, at Concordia – J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell. See Festival website
Interview on CKCU FM 93.1, November 9, 2018
An interview with Barbara Gray for the Arts report on CKCU’s program, “Friday Special Blend”, on November 9, 2018. We discussed my exhibit Fragile at Ottawa’s City Hall Art Gallery.
Fragile, solo exhibit at Ottawa’s City Hall Art Gallery, Oct 11 to Nov 27, 2018
An expanded version of the Fragile exhibit is now showing at Ottawa’s City Hall Art Gallery, including new photographs from the Tea Cups series, and all three videos in the series, Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea, Green tea cup: collectivities, and White saucer: surveillant eye. Vernissage: Thursday, October 11, 2018, 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Q&A with […]
White saucer: surveillant eye exhibited in Marseilles as part of Festival les Instants Vidéo
The video White saucer: surveillant eye will be exhibited at Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseilles from November 9 – December 2, 2018, as part of the 31st Festival les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques. Festival exhibition program Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseilles
Green tea cup: collectivities at The Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, July 5-Aug 18, 2018
The video Green tea cup: collectivities will appear in the 4-person exhibit Performimg Action: Portraits of Protest, at The Latcham Gallery in Stouffville, ON, from July 5 to Aug 18, 2018. The works in the exhibit engage with activism and advocacy. Opening reception is on Thursday, July 5 from 7 pm to 9 pm. See […]
Green tea cup: collectivities exhibited during Art Souterrain, Montreal, March 3-25, 2018
The video Green tea cup: collectivities will be exhibited as part of Art Souterrain in Montreal at Centre de Commerce Mondial, opening the night of Saturday March 3rd for Nuit Blanche, and continuing until March 25, 2018. For information and maps see the Art Souterrain website or Art Souterrain brochure
Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea at the 2nd International Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dec 24, 2017 to Jan 3, 2018
The video Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea will be screened at the 2nd International Addis Video Art Festival in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 24th, 2017 to January 3rd 2018, in a curated program by Groupe Intervention Vidéo. See program See festival website
Tea Cups videos exhibited in Marseille, France, Nov 9 to Dec 1, 2017 for Les Instants Vidéo festival
Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea and Green tea cup: collectivities will both be exhibited from November 9 to December 1, 2017 at ADPEI in Marseille for the 30th Festival Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétiques: Nos désirs font désordre. From the exhibition description: “The news at the heart of the intimate life: Man considers the wear of his […]
Tea Cups videos at Bibliotecha Art Centre, Alexandria, Egypt, Aug 23 – Sept 23, 2017
Green tea cup: collectivities and Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea are part of Les Instants Vidéo’s programming for the 2nd Art Video Forum exhibition appearing at the Bibliotecha Art Centre in Alexandria, Egypt from August 23 to September 23, 2017. Exhibition statement by curator Marc Mercier: For the 2nd Video Art Exhibition of Alexandria, we state that Video […]
Navy Tea Cup/ Crimea purchased by the City of Ottawa
June, 2017: The City of Ottawa has purchased Navy Tea Cup: Crimea for its Art Collection.
Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea screened at FIAV in Casablanca, Morocco, April 2017
Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea was screened at the 23rd edition of the International Video Art Festival (FIAV) in Casablanca, Morocco, April 25-29, 2017, as part of the program ‘The eye at work’ presented by Les Instants Vidéo. See program Festival website
Fragile, solo exhibit at Patrick Mikhail Gallery Montreal, November 26, 2016 – January 13, 2017
Opening on Saturday November 26 from 2-5 pm, Fragile features photographs and video from the Tea Cups series. Patrick Mikhail Gallery Montreal 4445 Rue Saint-Antoine Ouest Montreal, Quebec T.: 514.439.2790 See gallery website See Montreal gallery website (French) See individual works in the exhibit See CBC Arts article on the Fragile exhibit by Leah Collins […]
Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea screened at international video festivals and programs in Colombia, France, Italy and Tunisia during 2016-17
Yellow tea cup: refugees at sea is part of Groupe Intervention Vidéo’s 40th anniversary programming, in their historical programme GIV le 40e for VIS-A-VIS, Muestra Internacional de Videoarte desde la Perspectiva de Género, screening in Cartagena and Cali, Colombia. September 15-17, 2016 in Cartagena at MUHCA Museo […]
Tea Cups photographs and videos (2016-2018)
The Tea Cups series consists of short videos and photo-based digital prints made by projecting contemporary global news imagery into vintage tea cups, and recording the results. An immigrant to Canada, and typical of women of her era, my grandmother collected and displayed beautiful china cups and saucers which are now mine. Many feature uniquely rich colour […]